Installing Lenya on Linux

Here are some pointers on installing Lenya 1.2.x on a Fedora/Red Hat Linux system. I don't garantee that this is the best way to do it, but it works for me. Please contact me if you notice glaring errors. Note that I am gradually filling in this page. It is not complete yet.

Create a user who will own the lenya installation (this example creates a user called lenya). Deny logins for this user by disabling the account. This is the default if you do not set a password:
# adduser -c 'Lenya Owner' lenya
Designate a local directory where the software will be installed. Give ownership of this tree to user 'lenya'
# mkdir /var/www/cms
# chown -R lenya:lenya /var/www/cms
Become the user and prepare to install the software. See the lenya web site for instructions and download locations of relevant software; i.e. java, cocoon, lenya.
# su - lenya
$ cd /var/www/cms/
$ mkdir src

install a java environment if not already installed:
unpack cocoon and lenya:
export your java environment, and build cocoon and lenya:

Configure lenya on port 8888, then start and stop the lenya process as an initial test
Put into place a chkconfig script to automatically start and stop lenya
Configure apache to act as a proxy on port 80
Create static pages of your site on a regular basis using wget