setup-graphite-centos.sh

# First do a fresh install of CentOS 5.7 i386, server configuration (no GUI)
# This should be performed as root since it's going to be installing a bunch of stuff

# --- Update things to make sure we have the latest patches ---
# Add EPEL so we can get reasonably recent packages
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

# --- Install all the packages --- #
yum -y install python-whisper python-carbon graphite-web python-memcached python-ldap httpd memcached
yum install -y nc


#set locale
echo "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
# ===== BEGIN MANUAL STEP =====
# run syncdb to setup the db and prime the authentication model (if you're using the DB model)
python /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/graphite/manage.py syncdb
# ===== END MANUAL STEP =====

# --- Allow HTTP through firewall --- #
iptables -I INPUT 5 -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables

#change ownership of webapp
chown -R apache:apache /usr/share/graphite/webapp
service carbon-cache start
service memcached start
service httpd start

#if you want the service to start automaticly use chkconfig
chkconfig carbon-cache on
chkconfig memcached on
chkconfig httpd on
#test
curl -v localhost

can't start server with error 503:
DatabaseError: attempt to write a readonly database

db location : /var/lib/graphite-web/graphite.db

uncomment:
/etc/graphite-web/local_settings.py
Database setting

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6454564/target-wsgi-script-cannot-be-loaded-as-python-module

chmod a+x /usr/share/graphite/graphite-web.wsgi