Proof of Concept for a Command Line Installation Script for ILIAS
Please make sure you understand that this is not yet ready for production. Use this at your own risk.
Contact: Daniel Weise, Richard Klees
- PHP 5.6 or higher (PHP 7 works since Release 5.2)
- git 2.1.4 or higher
- ILIAS requirements
Download the PHAR for the latest release here.
These instructions assume that you make ilse executable as ilse.
In order to let ilse install ILIAS for you, you need to create a configuration file containing the required information for your installation.
ilse example-config
will give you an example configuration, which you will need to adjust to your requirements.
After you created your configuration file, make ilse build an installation from it:
ilse install $PATH_TO_CONFIG
You may also supply ilse with multiple config files. ilse will then prefer entries from the latter over the former. This allows you to create basic config files and overwrite only distinct config entries with more specific config files.
If you got tired of your ILIAS installation, ilse will be happy to remove it for you:
ilse delete $PATH_TO_CONFIG
ilse is in internal use at CaT for about a year now. It already contains facilities to do some more stuff automatically:
- make some configurations (e.g. LDAP, SOAP, password requirements, ...)
- install plugins
- update the installation
- import content and org-structures
- create roles and users
At the moment we do not consider these to be stable enough to show them to the public, thus only basic functionality is available for the cli interface at the moment.
We also have the vision that someday some ILIAS configurations are provided in a repository like this one so that people who want to try ILIAS only need to configure some locations on their system. This requirement will vanish as well, once doil or a similar tool works reliably. This project could also pen a huge space for testing, manual as well as automatic.
We hope that in the future this or a similar tool will be the only, or at least one, official way to install ILIAS. For this, we will be happy to contribute our code and knowledge to the community.
We are not ready to take contributions to ilse in an organized way at the moment. Please contact us via e-mail if you want to contribute code to the project, preferably before you start your work.
We started cleanup and are also performing major internal changes to the code base at the moment. Once this is complete, we consider opening this project to outside contributions in a more structured way.