Installing Aptana Jaxer on Ubuntu

Aptana Jaxer is a really interesting new way to speed up your ajax development.

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• Dependencies
  • Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop i386

sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0-dev firefox-dev
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0

• Download Jaxer latest version from here
• Unpack and copy it to /opt
• Configure the Apache Module separating the LoadModule directive from the rest of the Aptana config file and enabling it.

sudo sh -c "grep '^LoadModule' /opt/AptanaJaxer/jaxer/confs/jaxer-linux.httpd.conf > /etc/apache2/mods-available/jaxer-linux.httpd.load"
sudo sh -c "grep -v '^LoadModule' /opt/AptanaJaxer/jaxer/confs/jaxer-linux.httpd.conf > /etc/apache2/mods-available/jaxer-linux.httpd.conf"
sudo a2enmod jaxer-linux.httpd

• Start Jaxer Server

sudo JAXERBASE=/opt/AptanaJaxer /opt/AptanaJaxer/scripts/startJaxer.sh

• Restart Apache

sudo invoke-rc.d apache2 restart

• Go to http://localhost/aptana and follow on screen instructions or go directly to the diagnostic page

• Jaxer config file is in /opt/AptanaJaxer/local_jaxer/conf/JaxerManager.cfg ; use it to tune jaxer options such as logging, memory limit or anything related
• Create an init.d script to start Jaxer before Apache2
• Develop yuor ajax app

• Aptana Jaxer 1.0.2.4347 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) x86_64 (xen-vm) Server (20090103)
• Aptana Jaxer 1.0.2.4347 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) i686 Desktop (20090102)

• Please report any problem/question to f.strappini [ at ] integrasoftware.it, thanks