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INSTALL HOTSPOT YFI (part 1)

Author - Admin Date - February 11, 2016

Note :

Source of the original article : 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/hotcakes/wiki/yfi_setup_cake
I have edited some parts according to my experience

YFI Hotspot Manager network

Set-up CakePHP

This is last experience and 100% working properly:

Component	Description
Operating System	Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Web Server	LAMP Stack
CakePHP	CakePHP version 1.2.11
Coova Chilli	Coovachilli 1.0.14
Radius	FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.12

Install the LAMP stack

It is assumed that you have sudo rights on the Ubuntu machine which you want to install YFi Hotspot Manager on.
From the terminal enter the following command:

sudo tasksel

Selecting LAMP from the list will install all the required packages.
You will be required to supply a password for the root mysql user. (Hitting Esc each time will create a blank password)
Ensure the PHP command line program is also installed by issuing the following command:

sudo apt-get install php5-cli

Install imagemagick which is used to scale graphic files

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Install the following two PHP packages for new enhancements:

sudo apt-get install php5-gd php5-curl

Install Language Packs (optional)

From release Beta-3 upwards, YFi Hotspot Manager supports multiple languages
Install the following optional language packs in order to ensure proper working for the supported languages.

Language	Command to install language pack
Afrikaans	sudo apt-get install language-pack-af
French	sudo apt-get install language-pack-fr
Indonesian	sudo apt-get install language-pack-id
Malay	sudo apt-get install language-pack-ms
Netherlands	sudo apt-get install language-pack-nl
Thai	sudo apt-get install language-pack-th
Spanish	sudo apt-get install language-pack-es
Portuguese	sudo apt-get install language-pack-pt
German	sudo apt-get install language-pack-de
Danish	sudo apt-get install language-pack-da

Or just install them all at once

sudo apt-get install language-pack-af language-pack-fr language-pack-id \

language-pack-ms language-pack-nl language-pack-th language-pack-es \

language-pack-pt language-pack-de language-pack-da

Install CakePHP

Download the latest version of CakePHP (version 1.2.11)
Copy and extract it inside the directory that Apache is serving its content from (/var/www by default on Ubuntu)

wget https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/archive/1.2.11.tar.gz

sudo cp cake_1.2.11.tar.gz /var/www

cd /var/www

sudo tar -xzvf cake_1.2.11.tar.gz

sudo ln -s ./cake_1.2.11 ./c2

Enable the rewrite Apache module, also enable the compression module and the module that modifies the HTTP headers, they are used to vastly improve speed and performance of the web application. Reload Apache's configuration.

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo a2enmod deflate

sudo a2enmod headers

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Edit the following line in the '/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini' file

sudo vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

* Change [Line Number: 101]

output_buffering = Off

To

output_buffering = 4096

Also ensure short_open_tag is activated in '/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini' [Line Number: 83]

short_open_tag = On

Also ensure allow_call_time_pass_reference is set to On in '/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini' [Line Number: 164]

allow_call_time_pass_reference = On

Change Apache's configuration file to include the following: ('/etc/apache2/apache2.conf')

sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

<Directory  /var/www/c2>

    AllowOverride All

</Directory>

#-------COMPRESS CONTENT-----------

# place filter 'DEFLATE' on all outgoing content

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

# exclude uncompressible content via file type

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:exe|t?gz|jpg|png|pdf|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ no-gzip

#dont-vary

# Keep a log of compression ratio on each request

DeflateFilterNote Input instream

DeflateFilterNote Output outstream

DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio

LogFormat '"%r" %{outstream}n/%{instream}n (%{ratio}n%%)' deflate

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/deflate.log deflate

# Properly handle old browsers that do not support compression

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

#----------------------------------

#------ADD EXPIRY DATE-------------

<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">

    Header set Expires "Thu, 15 Apr 2012 20:00:00 GMT"

</FilesMatch>

#----------------------------------

#--------Remove ETags --------------------

FileETag none

#-----------------------------------------

Reload Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Install YFi CakePHP Application

YFi Hotspot Manager consists of two components: A CakePHP application and a Viewer.
Download the latest version of the YFi Cake application. (yfi_cake-Beta-5.tar.gz)
Extract it inside the '/var/www/c2' directory.

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotcakes/files/YFi%20CakePHP%20Application/Beta-5/yfi_cake-Beta-5.tar.gz

sudo cp yfi_cake-Beta-5.tar.gz /var/www/c2/

cd /var/www/c2

sudo tar -xzvf yfi_cake-Beta-5.tar.gz

sudo chown -R www-data. /var/www/c2/yfi_cake/tmp

sudo chown -R www-data. /var/www/c2/yfi_cake/webroot/img/graphics

sudo chown -R www-data. /var/www/c2/yfi_cake/webroot/files

Configure the database

You need to create a database called 'yfi' and allow access to it for a username / password combination.
It is good practice to change the default username / password combination.
This can be changed inside the '/var/www/c2/yfi_cake/config/database.php' file.
These sample commands assume the defaults.

mysql -u root

create database yfi;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON yfi.* to 'yfi'@'127.0.0.1' IDENTIFIED BY 'yfi';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON yfi.* to 'yfi'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yfi';

exit;

Dump the sample database in the newly created yfi database.

mysql -u root yfi < /var/www/c2/yfi_cake/setup/db/yfi.sql

Test the CakePHP application

Verify that everything works as intended by doing the following test.
Go to the followingURL.

http://127.0.0.1/c2/yfi_cake/users/

In my case, I can access from another computer, and browsing to

http://192.168.10.29/c2/yfi_cake/users/

Installing the YFi CakePHP Viewer Component

Get the latest viewer component of YFi Hotspot Manager. (version yfi-Beta-5.tar.gz).
Copy and extract it inside the directory that Apache is serving its content from (/var/www by default on Ubuntu)

wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/hotcakes/YFi%20Viewer%20Component/Beta-5/yfi-Beta-5.tar.gz

sudo cp yfi-Beta-5.tar.gz /var/www/

cd /var/www

sudo tar -xzvf yfi-Beta-5.tar.gz

Test the Viewer component

Go to the following URL http://127.0.0.1/yfi/ (you may need to replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP address of the server you installed the YFi Hotspot Manager on)
You should get a splash page which, depending on the speed of your network connection, will change into a login page.
Log in either as the administrator or as an Access Provider or as a permanent user.
The following table displays the default username and password for each.

Role	Username	Password
Administrator	root	admin
Access Provider	ap	ap
Permanent User	dvdwalt@ri	dvdwalt@ri