Part II. Administrator's Guide

Table of Contents

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 4

Install OpenACS 5.9.0

OpenACS Installation Guide for Windows

OpenACS Installation Guide for macOS

4. Configuring a new OpenACS Site

Installing OpenACS packages

Mounting OpenACS packages

Configuring an OpenACS package

Setting Permissions on an OpenACS package

How Do I?

5. Upgrading

Overview

Upgrading 4.5 or higher to 4.6.3

Upgrading OpenACS 4.6.3 to 5.0

Upgrading an OpenACS 5.0.0 or greater installation

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 for an OpenACS service

Set up Log Analysis Reports

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

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 using Tsearch2

Install nsopenssl

Install tclwebtest.

Install PHP for use in AOLserver

Install Squirrelmail for use as a webmail system for OpenACS

Install PAM Radius for use as external authentication

Install LDAP for use as external authentication

Install AOLserver 3.3oacs1

C. Credits

Where did this document come from?

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