Installing DHIS-2 on Amazon-AWS

Question

I just came across DHIS2 last friday through a client and I knew then that its what I've been looking for all along. I'm now trying to deploy on the cloud for a demo today (hopefully).

Is there a good guide out there to Installing DHIS-2 on Amazon Web Services or Linode or any affordable Cloud for that matter?

I've looked around google, not much help. Stack Exchange has a few users asking for help for their AWS deployment, not quite on point.

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/88117/making-dhis2-work-with-postgresql

Any pointers will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You can find the installation docs at the link below. DHIS 2 runs on Java 8, PostgreSQL and Tomcat. The installation docs is based on Ubuntu / Debian which is available on AWS EC2. It explains how to install DHIS 2 staring from a plain VM, which is what you do on AWS.

http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/master/en/implementer/html/ch08.html

If you prefer Fedora, the main difference is that you must use the yum package manager instead of APT, which basically translates to using yum install instead of apt-get install.

The basics of the installation process are as follows:

• Install PostgreSQL with: sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.4
• Create the dhis.conf configuration file.
• Tell the system where the configuration file is located by pointing a DHIS2_HOME environment variable to it.
• Install Java 8 with: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
• Download the DHIS 2 WAR file from the downloads page and place it under tomcat/webapps.
• Start Tomcat with tomcat/bin/startup.sh

You can also access the public DHIS 2 demo here in case you need to do demos:

https://play.dhis2.org/demo/