Bold BI Installation and Deployment on RHEL 9 on AWS EC2 Instance

This section explains Bold BI application installation and deployment on RHEL 9 EC2 instance on AWS.

Deployment prerequisites

1. Install Nginx.

2. Install the GDIPlus package using the following command.

   sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
   sudo yum install epel-release
   sudo yum install libgdiplus
   
   

3. Include definitions for developing with icu.

   sudo yum install libicu-devel
   

4. Add an openssl conf path in the environment if it does not exist.

   export OPENSSL_CONF=/etc/ssl/
   

5. Change the SELinux mode from targeted to permissive.

   sudo setenforce 0
   

Configuring the Bold BI application

1. Register and download the Bold BI Linux package from here.

2. Download the Bold BI Linux package by running the following command.

   sudo wget {Bold BI Linux package link}
   

3. Extract the zip file.

   sudo unzip {Bold BI Linux package zip file
   

4. Change the working directory to BoldBIEnterpriseEdition-Linux by running the following command.

   cd BoldBIEnterpriseEdition-Linux
   

5. Execute the following command to deploy Bold BI in your Linux machine.

   sudo bash install-boldbi.sh -i {new} -u {user} -h {host URL} -n {true or false} 
   

• i: Installation type: Specifies whether it is a new or upgrade installation.

• u: Specifies the user or group that manages the service. Please ensure that this user exists in your Linux server.

• h: Domain or IP address of the machine with HTTP protocol.

• n: Setting this to true will automatically configure the Bold BI with the Nginx front-end server.
  
  

  Example for new installation

   sudo bash install-boldbi.sh -i new -u www-data -h http://linux.example.com -n true