Installation Manuals

Installing OpenPetra For The First Time

We have now a script at https://get.openpetra.org that helps with setting up a test environment on recent versions of CentOS, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu. This script is also used for setting up the demo server, and to run all the nightly tests.

The requirement is one of the supported Linux systems, that is not used for anything else. The recommendation is to use a dedicated virtual machine or a container just for OpenPetra.

You also need to have installed: bash, curl, sudo, tar

to start the script, simply run as root:

curl https://get.openpetra.org | bash -s test

For production use, you should be a qualified IT person that runs the server, because the personal data of your supporters is at risk.

Updating OpenPetra To A Newer Version

simply run:

/home/openpetra/openpetra-server.sh update