Cisco Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Provider White Paper

 

 

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You can monitor the deployment process for successful completion by viewing the corresponding service request 

created within Intercloud Fabric Director. 

E-Commerce Application Implementation 

osCommerce Online Merchant is an e-commerce and online store-management software program. It is available 

as free software under the GNU General Public License. The osCommerce application was used for this validation 

because of its simplicity of deployment. 

Note:   The osCommerce application has been selected as a sample e-commerce application only. The validation 
and test processes don’t suggest or guarantee any application-specific details. Application validation and setup are 

outside the scope of this document. 

Environment 

osCommerce can be installed on any web server that has PHP installed and has access to a database server. 

Options include shared servers, dedicated servers, cloud instances, and local installations running on Linux, UNIX, 

BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. 

This validation test used dedicated virtual servers for the front end and back end with multiple web servers 

accessing a single database server (Table 2). 

Application Environment 

Web server 

Apache 2.2.15 (UNIX) 

PHP 5 

Database server 

MySQL 5.1.73 

Operating system 

CentOS 6.4 64-bit 

 

Web Servers 

The test uses two CentOS 6.4 64-bit virtual machines as web servers. Apache 2.2.15 with PHP 5 is installed on the 

web servers. The web server must either support PHP as a module or allow execution of CGI scripts. For 

performance reasons, FastCGI is recommended over CGI. 

The latest Apache and PHP packages can be installed using YUM from public repositories: 

#yum install httpd php php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc phpmyadmin 

After the packages have been installed, start the Apache web server using the following command: 

Disable the SELinux feature on the web server to allow Apache to make remote connections to the database 

server. SELinux is a Linux kernel security module that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security 

policies. By default, SELinux prevents Apache from accessing the database from a remote server. 

The initial deployment includes a single web server and a database server. The second web server is deployed by 

cloning the first web server.