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OpenACS Core Documentation
Table of Contents
I. OpenACS For Everyone
1. High level information: What is OpenACS?
Overview
OpenACS Release Notes
II. Administrator's Guide
2. Installation Overview
Basic Steps
Prerequisite Software
3. Complete Installation
Install a Unix-like system and supporting software
Install Oracle 8.1.7
Install PostgreSQL
Install AOLserver 3.3oacs1
Install AOLserver 4
Install OpenACS 5.1.0d1
OpenACS Installation Guide for Windows2000
OpenACS Installation Guide for Mac OS X
4. Configuring a new OpenACS Site
How Do I?
5. Upgrading
Overview
Upgrading OpenACS
Upgrading the OpenACS files
Upgrading Platform components
6. Production Environments
Starting and Stopping an OpenACS instance.
AOLserver keepalive with inittab
Running multiple services on one machine
High Availability/High Performance Configurations
Staged Deployment for Production Networks
Installing SSL Support
Set up Log Analysis Reports - OPTIONAL
External uptime validation
Diagnosing Performance Problems
7. Database Management
Running a PostgreSQL database on another server
Deleting a tablespace
Vacuum Postgres nightly
8. Backup and Recovery
Backup Strategy
Manual backup and recovery
Automated Backup (OPTIONAL)
Using CVS for backup-recovery
A. Install Red Hat 8/9
B. Install additional supporting software
Unpack the OpenACS tarball
Initialize CVS (OPTIONAL)
Add PSGML commands to emacs init file (OPTIONAL)
Install Daemontools (OPTIONAL)
Install qmail (OPTIONAL)
Install Analog web file analyzer
Install nspam
Install Full Text Search
Install nsopenssl
Install tclwebtest.
Install PHP for use in AOLserver
Install Squirrelmail for use as a webmail system for OpenACS
C. Credits
Where did this document come from?
Linux Install Guides
Security Information
Resources
III. For OpenACS Package Developers
9. Development Tutorial
Creating a Package
Setting Up Database Objects
Creating Web Pages
Debugging and Automated Testing
10. Advanced Topics
Write the Requirements and Design Specs
Add the new package to CVS
Adding Comments
Admin Pages
Categories
Categories
Prepare the package for distribution.
Notifications
Using .vuh files for pretty urls
11. Development Reference
OpenACS Packages
OpenACS Data Models and the Object System
The Request Processor
The OpenACS Database Access API
Using Templates in OpenACS
Groups, Context, Permissions
Writing OpenACS Application Pages
Parties in OpenACS
OpenACS Permissions Tediously Explained
Object Identity
Programming with AOLserver
Using HTML Forms
12. Engineering Standards
OpenACS Style Guide
Release Version Numbering
Constraint naming standard
ACS File Naming and Formatting Standards
PL/SQL Standards
Variables
Automated Testing
13. Documentation Standards
OpenACS Documentation Guide
Using PSGML mode in Emacs
Using nXML mode in Emacs
Detailed Design Documentation Template
System/Application Requirements Template
D. Using CVS with an OpenACS Site
E. How to package and release OpenACS
How to Update the OpenACS.org repository
How to Update the translations
IV. For OpenACS Platform Developers
14. Kernel Documentation
Overview
Object Model Requirements
Object Model Design
Permissions Requirements
Permissions Design
Groups Requirements
Groups Design
Subsites Requirements
Subsites Design Document
Package Manager Requirements
Package Manager Design
Database Access API
OpenACS Internationalization Requirements
Internationalization
Security Requirements
Security Design
Security Notes
Request Processor Requirements
Request Processor Design
Documenting Tcl Files: Page Contracts and Libraries
Bootstrapping OpenACS
External Authentication Requirements
Index
List of Figures
4.1.
Site Templates
5.1.
Upgrading with the APM
5.2.
Upgrading a local CVS repository
6.1.
Multiple-server configuration
6.2.
Simple Deployment - Step 1
6.3.
Simple Deployment - Step 1
6.4.
Simple Deployment - Step 1
6.5.
Complex Deployment - Step 1
6.6.
Complex Deployment - Step 1
6.7.
Complex Deployment - Step 1
6.8.
Query Analysis example
8.1.
Backup and Recovery Strategy
9.1.
Assumptions in this section
9.2.
Tutorial Data Model
9.3.
Database Creation Script - master create file
9.4.
Database deletion script
10.1.
Upgrading a local CVS repository
List of Tables
2.1.
Default directories for a standard install
2.2.
Version Compatibility Matrix
5.1.
Assumptions in this section
6.1.
How it Works
11.1.
Context Hierarchy Example
11.2.
acs_objects example data
List of Examples
12.1.
Getting datetime from the database ANSI-style
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