Automate daily database Vacuuming. This is a process which cleans out discarded data from the database. A quick way to automate vacuuming is to edit the cron file for the database user. Recommended: VACUUM ANALYZE every hour and VACUUM FULL ANALYZE every day.
[service0 service0]$ export EDITOR=emacs;crontab -e
Add these lines to the file. The vacuum command cleans up temporary structures within a PostGreSQL database, and can improve performance. We vacuum gently every hour and completely every day. The numbers and stars at the beginning are cron columns that specify when the program should be run - in this case, whenever the minute is 0 and the hour is 1, i.e., 1:00 am every day, and every (*) day of month, month, and day of week. Type man 5 crontab for more information.
0 1-23 * * * /usr/local/pgsql/bin/vacuumdb --analyze service0 +createdb -E UNICODE service0
Automate daily database Vacuuming. This is a process which cleans out discarded data from the database. A quick way to automate vacuuming is to edit the cron file for the database user. Recommended: VACUUM ANALYZE every hour and VACUUM FULL ANALYZE every day.
[service0 service0]$ export EDITOR=emacs;crontab -e
Add these lines to the file. The vacuum command cleans up temporary structures within a PostGreSQL database, and can improve performance. We vacuum gently every hour and completely every day. The numbers and stars at the beginning are cron columns that specify when the program should be run - in this case, whenever the minute is 0 and the hour is 1, i.e., 1:00 am every day, and every (*) day of month, month, and day of week. Type man 5 crontab for more information.
0 1-23 * * * /usr/local/pgsql/bin/vacuumdb --analyze service0 0 0 * * * /usr/local/pgsql/bin/vacuumdb --full --analyze service0
Add Full Text Search Support (OPTIONAL)
At this point the database should be ready for installing OpenACS.
Configure an AOLserver Service for OpenACS.�
The AOLserver architecture lets you run an arbitrary number of virtual servers. A virtual server is an HTTP service running on a specific port, e.g. port 80. In order for OpenACS to work, you need to configure a virtual server. The Reference Platform uses a configuration file included in the OpenACS tarball, /var/lib/aolserver/service0/etc/config.tcl. - Open it in an editor to adjust the parameters.
[root root]# su - service0 + Open it in an editor to adjust the parameters.[root root]# su - service0 [service0 service0]$ cd /var/lib/aolserver/service0/etc [service0 etc]$ emacs config.tcl@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@
If you want to track fresh code developments inbetween releases, or you are an OpenACS core developer, you may want to install from CVS. This is identical to Option 2 except that you get the files from CVS instead of the tarball: CVS Checkout Instructions. So, instead of tar xzf /tmp/openacs-5.1.0d1.tgz, cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@openacs.org:/cvsroot co acs-core.
Use daemontools supervice and svc, or inittab, to automate server startup and shutdown.
Install Full Text Search (OPTIONAL). If you have installed OpenFTS and enabled OpenFTS, you can now install the OpenFTS Driver package and Full Text Search Engine package in the OpenACS service.
This is a good time to make a backup of your service. If this is a - production site, you should set up automatic nightly backups.
If you want traffic reports, set up analog or another log + production site, you should set up automatic nightly backups.
If you want traffic reports, set up analog or another log processing program.
Follow the instruction on the home page to change the appearance of your service or add more packages. (more information)
Proceed to the tutorial to learn how to develop your own packages.
Set up database environment variables for the site