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Install Linux and supporting software

by Joel Aufrecht
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Paths and Users

Figure 4.1. Assumptions in this section

Fully qualified domain name of your serveryourserver.test
name of administrative access accountremadmin
OpenACS serviceservice0
OpenACS service accountservice0
OpenACS database nameservice0
Root of OpenACS service file tree/web/service0
Location of source code tarballs for new software/tmp
The OpenACS tarball contains some files which are useful while setting up other software. Those files are located at:/tmp/openacs-5.0.0a1/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files
Database backup directory/web/service0/database-backup
Service config files/web/service0/etc
Service log files/web/service0/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 the values that we've chosen. The values that you'll probably want to change, such as service name, are marked like this. The other values we recommend you leave unchanged unless you have a reason to change them.

Note

Some of the paths and user accounts have been changed from those recommended in previous versions of this document to improve security and maintainability. See this thread for discussion.

Install Linux

You will need a PC running linux with the following software installed:

  • libxml2

  • tcl

  • gmake and the compile and build environment.

and optionally these programs, which are included in most distributions:

To install a machine to the specifications of the Reference Platform, do the walkthrough of the Red Hat 8.0 Install for OpenACS.

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