Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/configuring.xml
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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.
+
+
+
+
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