Installing Designer of Business Applications Back End on Apache2

The designer of business applications back end can be installed on Apache2 web server automatically using a distribution or manually. Manual installation and setup of Apache2 is used as an alternative option to access resources of designer of business applications.

To install the designer of business applications back end on Apache2 web server in Linux OS:

Make sure that the following conditions are satisfied:

BI server and Apache2 web server are installed.
Internet connection is available.
The designer of business applications back end is installed under the user who has local computer administrator permissions.

Copy the distribution file from the software package of Foresight Analytics Platform to the home directory: /home/<user name>:

foresight-fp10.x-dba*.deb for Debian-based distribution files.
foresight-fp10.x-dba*.rpm for RedHat-based distribution files and ALT Linux.

Install the copied distribution of the designer of business applications back end:

Astra Linux:

sudo dpkg -i foresight-fp10.x-dba*.deb

Rocky Linux:

sudo yum localinstall foresight-fp10.x-dba*.rpm

RED OS:

sudo dnf install foresight-fp10.x-dba*.rpm

ALT Linux:

sudo apt-get install -y foresight-fp10.x-dba*.rpm

NOTE. Packages can be installed using another utility.

Disable the AstraMode mode for the apache2-fp10.x-dba instance if Astra Linux SE 1.7 is used. To do this, replace the #AstraMode on string in the /etc/apache2-fp10.x-dba/apache2.conf file with AstraMode off.

If required, determine IP address or name of the DNS server, on which the designer of business applications back end is installed:

ip address
hostname

These parameters are used on setting up designer of business applications configuration and checking BI server performance.

After executing the operations, the designer of business applications back end is installed to the /opt/foresight/fp10.x-dba folder. During the installation, a new instance of apache2-fp10.x-dba will be created and set up for Astra Linux, httpd-fp10.x-dba - for RED OS and Rocky Linux, httpd2-fp10.x-dba - for ALT Linux. Three variables PATH_TO_DBA, PP_SOM and BI_HOST will be added to the environment variables file /etc/opt/foresight/fp10.x-dba/envvars: The variables will have the path to designer of business applications files and default BI server URL and host. If required, change variable values. These variables are used in the Apache2 configuration file:

/etc/apache2-fp10.x-dba/sites-available/webserver.conf in Astra Linux.
/etc/httpd-fp10.x-dba/conf.d/00-virtualhost.conf in RED OS, Rocky Linux.
/etc/httpd2-fp10.x-dba/conf/sites-available/default.conf in ALT Linux.

The designer of business applications is set up to work with local BI server via the 8810 port. BI server URL can be changed in the file /opt/foresight/fp10.x-dba/config/config.json. The designer of business applications is available via the 8210 port.