Zabbix Install for English speaker(from source)

This domeument for install zebbix with MySQL on CentOS 5.
But, this document is supprt in Japanese only.

文法がとかいう私の英語力に対するつっこみは受け付けません。

At first, Please read offical manuals.
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/installation

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1. Install OS
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First, CentOS 5 or RHEL 5 install to box with develop environment.

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2. Install depends libraries
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Install from install DVD or official repositry.
mysql-devel, net-snmp-devel, curl-devel

Download and Install from rpmforge.
iksemel-devel
http://packages.sw.be/iksemel/

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3. Download Zabbix tarball
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Download from offical site.
http://www.zabbix.com/download.php

File name is 'zabbix-1.8.3.tar.gz'.

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4. Expand that tarball
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# tar zxvf zabbix-1.8.3.tar.gz

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5. Create database
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# cd zabbix-1.8.3
# service mysqld start
# mysql -uroot
mysql> create database zabbix character set utf8;
mysql> grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by 'password';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit
# mysql -uzabbix -ppassword zabbix < create/schema/mysql.sql
# mysql -uzabbix -ppassword zabbix < create/data/data.sql
# mysql -uzabbix -ppassword zabbix < create/data/images_mysql.sql


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6. Configure sources & make install
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# ./configure --enable-server --enable-agent --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-jabber --with-libcurl
# make
# make install

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7. Create config files
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# cd /etc
# mkdir zabbix

zabbix_server.conf and zabbix_agentd.conf copy to /etc/zabbix.

# cd zabbix-1.8.3
# cp misc/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf /etc/zabbix

Edit config files.
zabbix_server.conf:
'DBUser' and 'DBPassword' must change to your database for zabbix in zabbix_server.conf.
zabbix_agentd.conf:
'Server' must change to zabbix server's IP Address.
'Hostname' must change to hostname that zabbix_agentd running.
This hostname use on host infomation of Web frontend.

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8. Create start/stop script for init
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Sample file are under misc/init.d/redhat/8.0.
Copy to /etc/init.d and edit if you want.
progdir="/usr/local/zabbix/bin/" to progdir="/usr/local/sbin/"

# chmod +x /etc/init.d/zabbix*

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9. Start Server and Agent
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# useradd -s /sbin/nologin zabbix
# service zabbix_server start
# service zabbix_agentd start


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10. Web frontend setting
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Install from install DVD or official repositry.
httpd, php, php-bcmath, php-gd, php-mbstring, php-xml, php-mysql

# cd zabbix-1.8.3/frontends
# cp -r php /var/www/html/zabbix
# cd /var/www/html/zabbix
# chown -R apache:apache conf
# chmod 775 conf

some php setting change in /etc/php.ini.
ex.
memory_limit = 128M
post_max_size = 16M
upload_max_filesize = 2M
max_execution_time = 300
max_input_time = 300
mbstring.func_overload = 6
date.timezone = Asia/Tokyo

# service httpd start

Access to http://ip-addr/zabbix/