Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/configuring.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/configuring.xml,v diff -u -r1.7 -r1.8 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/configuring.xml 15 Jul 2004 00:18:04 -0000 1.7 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/configuring.xml 21 Jul 2004 21:54:44 -0000 1.8 @@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ Installing OpenACS packages - An OpenACS package lets your website do things it couldn't - before. You can have a weblog, a calendar, or even do - sophisticated project-management via your website. + An OpenACS package extends your website and lets it do + things it wasn't able to do before. You can have a weblog, a + forums, a calendar, or even do sophisticated project-management + via your website. After you've installed OpenACS, you can congratulate yourself for a job well done. Then, you'll probably want to @@ -32,7 +33,8 @@ To install packages, you have to be an administrator on the OpenACS webserver. Log in, and you'll see a link to Admin or the Control Panel. Click on that, then click on 'Install - software'. + software'. Packages are sometimes also referred to as + applications or software. At this point, you'll need to determine whether or not you're able to install from the repository, or whether you @@ -54,7 +56,8 @@ /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/log/error.log file, and post your error on the OpenACS forums - This section is under construction + Once the package has been installed, then you will need to + 'mount' the package. The next section handles that. @@ -65,9 +68,36 @@ Mounting OpenACS packages + After you've installed your packages, you have to 'mount' them in order to make them appear on your website. + + Make sure you are logged in, and then click on the + 'Admin' or 'Control Panel' link to get to the Site-Wide + Administration page (at /acs-admin). Click on the subsite you'd + like the application to be available at. + + Subsites are a way of dividing your website into logical + chunks. Often they represent different groups of users, or parts + of an organization. + + Now click on 'Applications' (applications are the same + thing as packages). You'll see a list of Applications and the + URLs that each is located at. To mount a new application, you + click on 'Add application', enter the Application, title + (application name), and URL (URL folder name), and you're + done. + + Test it out now. The URL is based on a combination of the + subsite URL and the application URL. So if you installed a + package in the Main Subsite at the URL calendar, it will be + available at http://www.yoursite.com/calendar. If you installed + it at a subsite that has a URL intranet, then it would be + located at http://www.yoursite.com/intranet/calendar. + + + @@ -79,9 +109,44 @@ Configuring an OpenACS package After you've installed and mounted your package, you can configure each instance to act as you would like. + + This is done from the Applications page. Log in, go to the + Admin or Control Panel, click on the subsite the application is + in, and click on Applications. If you click on the 'Parameters' + link, you will see a list of parameters that you can change for + this application. + + Setting Permissions on an OpenACS package + + by Jade Rubick + + + Setting Permission on an OpenACS package + After you've installed and mounted your package, you can + configure each instance to act as you would like. + + This is done from the Applications page. Log in, go to the + Admin or Control Panel, click on the subsite the application is + in, and click on Applications. If you click on the 'Permissions' + link, you will see and be able to set the permissions for that + application. + + Each application may have different behavior for what Read + Create Write and Admin permissions mean, but generally the + permissions are straightforward. If you find the behavior is not + what you expect after setting permissions, you can post a bug in + the OpenACS bugtracker. + + 'The Public' refers to users to the website who are not + logged in. 'Registered Users' are people who have registered for + the site. + + + + How Do I?