This part describes how to setup an opendap server with hyrax under the centos 5 operating system.
To setup a centos system you can take a clean computer or a clean virtual machine (using for example vmware). Download centos burn a dvd and insert it into your computer. Follow the installation guide and setup the operating system. Any linux/unix system will be useable. If you want to work with windows you can best use cygwin to install linux compatible software.
Install subversion
(sudo) yum install subversion
The following libraries are required:
The following need c,c+,fortran (all prefered from the gcc (gcc, g+, gfortran). Make sure you have up to date versions of automake, autoconf, etc... (should be if you use a recent distribution). For these I usually install from source because there might be some options I need later, like --with-hdf, --with-dap or --with-netcdf-4
To install Hyrax follow the Hyrax installation guide.
To configure Hyrax follow the Hyrax configuration guide
There are some alternative opendap servers you could use: