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According to Philip Greenspun: @@ -17,21 +17,21 @@ et al decided to port ACS from Oracle to PostgreSQL, thus making it a fully open-source solution.
- OpenACS 4.6.2 is the next generation of the web toolkit. It's based on + OpenACS 4.6.3 is the next generation of the web toolkit. It's based on ACS 4, but no longer follows ArsDigita development. Unlike both ACS (which required Oracle) and OpenACS 3.x (which required PostgreSQL), - OpenACS 4.6.2 allows you to use either database. It's also built in such + OpenACS 4.6.3 allows you to use either database. It's also built in such a way to allow enterprising hackers (in the good sense of the word) to extend it to other databases. Don Baccus leads the development and numerous developers (and non-developers) contribute from around the world.
This document will describe how to install, configure, and - maintain an installation of OpenACS 4.6.2 on a Unix-like + maintain an installation of OpenACS 4.6.3 on a Unix-like system, including all supporting software. All examples - in this chapter are part of the OpenACS 4.6.2-P or - OpenACS 4.6.2-O Reference Platform, which use Red + in this chapter are part of the OpenACS 4.6.3-P or + OpenACS 4.6.3-O Reference Platform, which use Red Hat 8.0. Differences between the Reference Platform and common alternate platforms are noted where known.
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ The basic steps to getting OpenACS up and running are:
Install an OS
Install a webserver (AOLServer)
Install a database (Oracle or PostgreSQL)
Install a database driver (allows the webserver to talk to the database) -
Start the OpenACS installer, which will configure a database instance..
This is text you will see on +
Start the OpenACS installer, which will configure a database instance..
This is text you will see on screen, such as a or link in a radio button list or menu.
This is text that you will type.
This is text from a program or file which you may need to examine or edit:
if {$database == "oracle"} {
@@ -137,15 +137,15 @@
better way. Well, not quite. Jonathan Marsden has created RPMs (at
http://www.xc.org)
for OpenACS 4.5 but there are not yet any for version
- 4.6.2. There has been talk about automating the install process,
+ 4.6.3. There has been talk about automating the install process,
but that hasn't happened yet. Stay tuned!
This document was created by Vinod Kurup, but it's really just plagiarism from a number of documents that came before it. If I've used something that you've written without proper credit, let me know and I'll fix it right away. -
Version 4.6.2 was edited by Joel Aufrecht. +
Version 4.6.3 was edited by Joel Aufrecht.
These are a few of my sources:
@@ -259,4 +259,4 @@ IBM developerworks on basic and intermediate Linux skills (requires registration) -