https://deviantengineer.com/2014/08/unifi-controller-centos7/
I installed a new version, 5.5.24 in about a year after this original guide was writted. Backup of 5.0.3 and restore to 5.5.24 went uneventfully. New (latest so far) version is here:
https://www.ubnt.com/downloads/unifi/5.5.24/UniFi.unix.zip
You will do everything here as root. The UniFi Controller will run as user ubnt, which you create. Dependencies mentioned here are avaialable under ./resources
##1. Disable SELinux and update server:
sed -i /etc/selinux/config -r -e 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=disabled/g'
yum -y update
systemctl reboot
It worked for me without disabling SELinux, so you can skip this step, too.
##2. Install EPEL Repo
yum -y install epel-release
##3. Install Prerequisites
useradd -r ubnt
yum -y install mongodb-server java-1.8.0-openjdk unzip wget
Now, mongo will not start due to a missing dependency libtcmalloc4.so. While it's present in Centos 7, it was not in my installation of ClearOS. Here's how to fix it:
wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/opensuse/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/libtcmalloc4-2.2-3.3.1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh libtcmalloc4-2.2-3.3.1.x86_64.rpm
[TODO find proper rpm matching ClearOS]
##4. Download and Extract UniFi Controller
cd ~ && wget http://dl.ubnt.com/unifi/5.0.7/UniFi.unix.zip
unzip -q UniFi.unix.zip -d /opt
chown -R ubnt:ubnt /opt/UniFi
##5. Create Startup Script with Systemd # vi /etc/systemd/system/unifi.service # # # Systemd unit file for UniFi Controller #
[Unit]
Description=UniFi AP Web Controller
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=ubnt
WorkingDirectory=/opt/UniFi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -Xmx1024M -jar /opt/UniFi/lib/ace.jar start
ExecStop=/usr/bin/java -jar /opt/UniFi/lib/ace.jar stop
SuccessExitStatus=143
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
##6. Configure Firewall
In ClearOS UI, open incoming port 8443
##7. Enable UniFi on Startup
systemctl enable unifi.service
##8. Cleanup rm -rf ~/UniFi.unix.zip systemctl reboot
##9. Accessing the UniFi Controller server https://:8443