This documentation will walk you through a step by step installation of NicTool on a minimal install of CentOS 6. This doc supports both 32 and 64 bit installations of CentOS.
First step is to update the system to the latest and greatest version of CentOS
yum update
The default CentOS repo does not provide all the required prerequisites, so we'll being in the EPEL repo
yum install http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Since CentOS is a rpm based system we try and use as many of the provided RPM's as possible, what's left we'll install from source (CPAN)
yum install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel httpd httpd-devel mod_perl mod_perl-devel mod_ssl curl gcc \
make gettext gettext-devel rsync libxml2 libxml2-devel perl-Net-IP perl-XML-Parser \
perl-XML-LibXML perl-Digest-HMAC perl-JSON perl-RPC-XML perl-CGI perl-SOAP-Lite perl-CPAN \
wget perl-Apache-DBI perl-Params-Validate perl-parent perl-Time-HiRes perl-MIME-Base32 \
perl-DBIx-Simple perl-YAML expat bind perl-Encode-Locale perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 \
perl-Test-Simple perl-Module-Build perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-Class-Inspector perl-Task-Weaken
export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1
cpan -i Test::More
cpan -i BIND::Conf_Parser
cpan -i -f Net::DNS::Zone::Parser
cpan -i -f TestConfig
cpan -i Time::TAI64
chkconfig mysqld on service mysqld start
mkdir -p /usr/src/nictool cd /usr/src/nictool rm -rf server client wget http://www.nictool.com/download/NicTool-2.25.tar.gz tar zxvf NicTool-2.25.tar.gz tar zxvf client/NicToolClient-2.25.tar.gz tar zxvf server/NicToolServer-2.25.tar.gz mkdir -p /usr/local/nictool /bin/cp -af NicToolClient-2.25 /usr/local/nictool/client /bin/cp -af NicToolServer-2.25 /usr/local/nictool/server cd /usr/local/nictool/client test -f lib/nictoolclient.conf || cp lib/nictoolclient.conf.dist lib/nictoolclient.conf perl Makefile.PL && make && make install clean cd /usr/local/nictool/server test -f lib/nictoolserver.conf || cp lib/nictoolserver.conf.dist lib/nictoolserver.conf perl Makefile.PL && make && make install clean
We run this script just to be sure we have everything NicTool needs
cd /usr/local/nictool/server perl bin/nt_install_deps.pl cd /usr/local/nictool/client perl bin/install_deps.pl
cd /usr/local/nictool/server/sql perl create_tables.pl
Modify this configuration file and populate it with our database details.
vi nictoolserver.conf
Download the provided config and use sed to make a couple changes
wget -O /etc/httpd/conf.d/z_nictool.conf http://www.nictool.com/download/nictool.conf sed -i '/Listen 443/d' /etc/httpd/conf.d/z_nictool.conf sed -i "s/dns\.example\.net/`hostname |sed 's/\./\\./g'`/g" /etc/httpd/conf.d/z_nictool.conf
Next you need to edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf and remove the default SSL VirtualHost entry. Edit the file and find the line that starts with <VirtualHost _default_:443>. Remove it and everything below it until you reach a line matching </VirtualHost>. Remove that line too.