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Basic Steps

The basic steps for installing OpenACS are: -

  1. Install an OS and supporting software (see Install a Unix-like OS or Appendix�A, Install Red Hat 8/9 for more details). See the Table�2.2.

  2. Install a database (see Section�, “Install Oracle 8.1.7” or +

    1. Install an OS and supporting software (see ??? or Appendix�A, Install Red Hat 8/9 for more details). See the Table�2.2.

    2. Install a database (see Section�, “Install Oracle 8.1.7” or Install PostgreSQL).

    3. Install AOLserver (Install AOLserver 4) .

    4. Create a unique database and system user. Install the OpenACS tarball, start and AOLserver instance, and use the OpenACS web pages to complete installation @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME svc -d /service/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME dropdb $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME -createdb $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

      Setting a global shell variable for cut and paste.�In order to cut and paste the instructions into your shell, you must set the environment variable $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME. In order to set it globally so that it works for any new users or special service users you may create, edit the file /etc/profile ( /etc/share/skel/dot.profile for FreeBSD) and add this line:

      export OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME=service0

Paths and Users

Table�2.1.�Default directories for a standard install

Fully qualified domain name of your serveryourserver.test
name of administrative access accountremadmin
OpenACS service$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME (set to service0 in default install)
OpenACS service account$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
OpenACS database name$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
Root of OpenACS service file tree (SERVERROOT)/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
Location of source code tarballs for new software/var/tmp
The OpenACS tarball contains some files which +createdb $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

Setting a global shell variable for cut and paste.�In order to cut and paste the instructions into your shell, you must set the environment variable $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME. In order to set it globally so that it works for any new users or special service users you may create, edit the file /etc/profile ( /etc/share/skel/dot.profile for FreeBSD) and add this line:

export OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME=service0

Paths and Users

Table�2.1.�Default directories for a standard install

Fully qualified domain name of your serveryourserver.test
name of administrative access accountremadmin
OpenACS service$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME (set to service0 in default install)
OpenACS service account$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
OpenACS database name$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
Root of OpenACS service file tree (SERVERROOT)/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
Location of source code tarballs for new software/var/tmp
The OpenACS tarball contains some files which are useful while setting up other software. Those files are located at:/var/tmp/openacs-5.4.2/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files
Database backup directory/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/database-backup
Service config files/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/etc
Service log files/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/log
Compile directory/usr/local/src
PostgreSQL directory/usr/local/pgsql
AOLserver directory/usr/local/aolserver

None of these locations are set in stone - they're simply