Ignition is cross-platform and available for multiple operating systems. Installing Ignition on Windows is extremely easy, you just need to run the Windows installer. Installing Ignition on other platforms, such as Linux, requires a few more steps.
The following directions will get Ignition installed and running as a service under Ubuntu 9.04 or Ubuntu 9.10.
Step 1: Download Ignition
To download Ignition for linux go to https://inductiveautomation.com/downloads and download the latest:
- Ignition-buildXXXX-linux.zip for 32-bit Java Runtime Environment
- Ignition-buildXXX-linux-x64.zip for 64-bit Java Runtime Environment
If you are unsure, download Ignition-buildXXXX-linux.zip.
Step 2: Install Java 6 if not already installed
First, check to see if the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 is installed by executing the following command:
java -version If the result is java version "1.6.X_XX" the correct version of the JRE is installed. If not, install JRE 6 with:
apt-get install sun-java6-jre * Note: If you are running the 64-bit JRE download the linux-x64.zip mentioned in step 1.
Step 3: Install Ignition
You need to run the following commands as ROOT so either prefix all commands with 'sudo', run 'sudo su', or login as a root user. First, unzip the files to /usr/local/bin/ignition or any directory of your choosing:
unzip Ignition-buildXXXX-linux.zip -d /usr/local/bin/ignition * Note: you will need to replace 'XXXX' with whatever the acutal build number is from the downloaded file. Also, if you downloaded the 64-bit zip file unzip that one instead.
Change into the directory you unzipped to:
cd /usr/local/bin/ignition Set executable permissions on ignition.sh and ignition-gateway
chmod +x ignition.shchmod +x ignition-gateway Create a symlink to ignition.sh in /etc/init.d/ in order to install Ignition as a service:
cd /etc/init.d/ln -s /usr/local/bin/ignition/ignition.sh ignitionchmod +x ignition Run the update-rc.d utility to install Ignition as a service:
update-rc.d ignition defaults Now, you can start and stop Ignition with the following commands:
/etc/init.d/ignition start/etc/init.d/ignition stop Ignition will start automatically when the computer boots up from here on out. If you wish to stop this behaviour, in order to start and stop manually, then you need to use the update-rc.d tool to remove the service and delete the symlink we created earlier (NOT RECOMMENDED):
/etc/init.d/ignition stopupdate-rc.d -f ignition removerm /etc/init.d/ignition The Gateway Control Utility can be launched via the gcu.sh shell script in /usr/local/bin/ignition. It will need to be made executable first:
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ignition/gcu.sh/usr/local/bin/ignition/gcu.sh That's it, you are done! Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8088. Have fun with Ignition and if you have any questions please use the forum or call us at (800) 266-7798.