Specific instructions are available for Mac OS X and Windows2000
-(see the section called
-“OpenACS Installation Guide for Mac OS X” or the section called
+ Specific instructions are available for macOS and Windows2000
+(see the section called “OpenACS
+Installation Guide for macOS” or the section called
“OpenACS Installation Guide for Windows”). You can try out OpenACS using some binary installers. In
@@ -53,83 +53,84 @@
use this guide
This is text from a program or file which you may need to
examine or edit: This is text that you will
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 $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME. In order to set it
-globally so that it works for any new users or special service
-users you may create, edit the file Table 2.1. Default directories
for a standard install None of these locations are set in stone - they're simply
the values that we've chosen. The values that you'll
-probably want to change, such as service name, are Some of the paths and user accounts have been changed from those
recommended in previous versions of this document to improve
security and maintainability. See this thread for discussion. If you find errors in this document or if you have ideas about
making it better, please post them in our BugTracker. ($Id: overview.xml,v 1.30 2017/08/07
-23:47:55 gustafn Exp $)
This is text you will see on
-screen, such as a or
-link in a radio button list or
-menu.This is text that you will
+screen, such as a or link in a radio button list
+or menu.This is text that you will
type.if {$database eq "oracle"} {
set db_password "mysitepassword"
}
see and type in a command shell,
-including text you may have to
-change. It is followed by a list of just the commands,
-which you can copy and paste. The command prompt varies by system;
-in the examples we use the form[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$, where
+including text
+you may have to change. It is followed by a list of
+just the commands, which you can copy and paste. The command prompt
+varies by system; in the examples we use the form[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$, where
$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME is the
current user and aolserver is
the current directory. The root prompt is shown ending in # and all
other prompts in $.
[root root]#
su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
-[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$ svc -d /service/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
+[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$ svc -d /service/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
-[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$ dropdb $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
+[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$ dropdb $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
DROP DATABASE
-[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$ createdb $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
+[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$ createdb $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
CREATE DATABASE
-su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
-svc -d /service/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
-dropdb $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
-createdb $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
-
+su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
+svc -d /service/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
+dropdb $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
+createdb $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
+
/etc/profile ( /etc/share/skel/dot.profile for FreeBSD)
-and add this line:export OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME=
service0
+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
marked like this. The other values
-we recommend you leave unchanged unless you have a reason to change
-them.Note