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INSTALL Documentation for the MISP Project.
To have a more web friendly view please visit the mkdocs generated gh-pages site here
The text files in this folder are symlink to ../docs - Which is the actual source.
Currently the following install guides are being tested on a regular basis:
INSTALL.ubuntu1804.md
INSTALL.ubuntu2004.md
INSTALL.kali.md
INSTALL.rhel7.md
INSTALL.rhel8.md
Files prefixed with 'CONFIG.' are CONFIGuration guides and not full blown INSTALL guides.
UPDATE.md gives you a brief overview on how to update MISP to the latest version, as well as some other core dependencies that can be updated.
Install guides with the 'x' prefix, are marked as Experimental.
The following are tested on a semi-regular basis:
xINSTALL.centos7.md
xINSTALL.debian10.md
INSTALL.sh hacking
First of all, please read the INSTALL.sh script. Running a random piece of shell script that randomly invokes sudo left right and center is dangerous. (Without a sword)
Now read INSTALL.tpl.sh. This is the generator for INSTALL.sh.
If for example you want to modify INSTALL.sh, NEVER EVER touch INSTALL.sh. This will break the checksum and I will be very, very angry.
INSTALL.tpl.sh will source the various Markdown files and generate the main installer. Meaning, if changes happen they mostly happen in the .md files. The advantage being that when the manual documentation is up to date the installer is up to date.
There are 2 scenarios here.
- There is an issue or improvement to be made in INSTALL.ubuntu2004.md for example.
- A core INSTALL.sh issue or improvement needs to be done.
You will need xsnippet that extracts bits of shell code from the .md files:
mkdir -p ~/bin
git clone https://github.com/SteveClement/xsnippet.git
cd xsnippet; cp xsnippet ~/bin/
export PATH="$PATH:~/bin" # By now you are aware that this needs to be in your $PATH, aren't you. #PAAF
You need rhash too:
sudo apt install rhash
Now you are ready.
To test if you are really ready, do the following:
git clone https://github.com/MISP/MISP.git
cd MISP/INSTALL ; ./INSTALL.tpl.sh
The only file that should have been changed is: INSTALL.sh.sfv And nothing on stdout should have been displayed, and the exit code would have been obviously 0.
Scenario 1
The easiest scenario. Everythin between # <snippet-begin is relevant to the to be generated installer. Change to your hearts' content, run the INSTALL.tpl.sh script and now the following files will have changed:
modified: INSTALL.sh
modified: INSTALL.sh.sfv
modified: INSTALL.sh.sha1
modified: INSTALL.sh.sha256
modified: INSTALL.sh.sha384
modified: INSTALL.sh.sha512
modified: ../docs/INSTALL.ubuntu1804.md
Perfect, this looks as if it worked. This is typical, if the .md changes, the INSTALL.sh checksum will obviously change too. Important to note, this needs to be reflected on the 2.4 branch. Otherwise your changes are not taken into account or something might even break if things are out of sync.
If for example you change a markdown file and the checksums have NOT changed. This means either that the changed markdown file is not yet supported by the installer. Or that you changed INSTALL.ubuntu2004.md The Ubuntu 18.04 install documentation is the main Ubuntu installer file. Ideally you merge your changed between the 18.04 and 20.04 and run the generator again.
Scenario 2
This scenario is more complex. Have you read the INSTALL.tpl.sh yet? If no, please do not continue before having read it.
Good, now that you read it you noticed that there are references to the folder docs/generic this folder includes generic files that are shared between platforms.
For core changes, the most interesting and important files are:
- globalVariables.md
- MISP_CAKE_init.md
- supportFunctions.md
globalVariables
This is the most interesting file, it will bootstrap the install environment of the MISP-Server to be. What I always use, even for just debugging MISP issues in general:
eval "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MISP/MISP/2.4/docs/generic/globalVariables.md | grep -v \`\`\`)"
MISPvars
This will expose a standard MISP environment to my current working environment, a few important notes and potential caveats: Familiarize yourself with ":-" variables, static list:
MISP_USER="${MISP_USER:-misp}"
MISP_PASSWORD="${MISP_PASSWORD:-$(openssl rand -hex 32)}"
PATH_TO_MISP="${PATH_TO_MISP:-/var/www/MISP}"
FQDN="${FQDN:-misp.local}"
MISP_BASEURL="${MISP_BASEURL:-""}"
DBHOST="${DBHOST:-localhost}"
DBNAME="${DBNAME:-misp}"
DBUSER_ADMIN="${DBUSER_ADMIN:-root}"
DBPASSWORD_ADMIN="${DBPASSWORD_ADMIN:-$(openssl rand -hex 32)}"
DBUSER_MISP="${DBUSER_MISP:-misp}"
DBPASSWORD_MISP="${DBPASSWORD_MISP:-$(openssl rand -hex 32)}"
Those are variables, if they are set in the current scope, via export for example, the will NOT be set with a default value.
MISP_CAKE_init
This file includes all the cake commands to configure the MISP instance via the CLI. As always, have you read the file?
From its' header:
# Core cake commands to tweak MISP and aleviate some of the configuration pains
# The $RUN_PHP is ONLY set on RHEL/CentOS installs and can thus be ignored
# This file is NOT an excuse to NOT read the settings and familiarize ourselves with them ;)
supportFunctions
The list below will give you a hint what the supportFunctions do. Reading the code will be more or less self-explanatory, plus it is documented.
For a static overview, as of 20210114 the following functions are in that file:
usage () {
containsElement () {
checkOpt () {
setOpt () {
command_exists () {
checkCoreOS () {
checkFlavour () {
check_forked () {
checkInstaller () {
checkManufacturer () {
space () {
progress () {
checkLocale () {
checkFail () {
ask_o () {
clean () {
checkID () {
preInstall () {
upgrade () {
checkUsrLocalSrc () {
kaliSpaceSaver () {
kaliOnTheR0ckz () {
setBaseURL () {
installRNG () {
kaliUpgrade () {
disableSleep () {
checkAptLock () {
installDepsPhp70 () {
installDepsPhp73 () {
installDeps () {
fixRedis () {
genApacheConf () {
gitPullAllRCLOCAL () {
composer () {
enableServices () {
genRCLOCAL () {
runTests () {
nuke () {
theEnd () {