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Mon Feb 4 11:13:41 2002 UTC (22 years, 4 months ago) by matthew
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Step by step, cut-and-paste'able info on setting up a lon-capa system on
RedHat 7.2  More work needs to be done on this document, but hopefully it
is a good first step.

1: $Id: how_to_install_on_RedHat7.2.txt,v 1.1 2002/02/04 11:13:41 matthew Exp $ 2: 3: Install RedHat 7.2 on your system. Use a 'custom' install and include 4: the web and sql servers along with any others you need or desire. 5: 6: 1. Add the user www 7: /usr/sbin/adduser www 8: 9: 2. Determine the user id of www (needed in the next step): 10: grep ^www /etc/passwd | cut -d':' -f3 11: 12: 3. Work around authentication issues: 13: wget http://www.wwnet.net/~janc/software/mod_auth_external-2.1.13.tar.gz 14: tar zxvf mod_auth_external-2.1.13.tar.gz 15: cd mod_auth_external-2.1.13/pwauth/ 16: 17: edit config.h and change the line: 18: 19: #define SERVER_UIDS 99 /* user "nobody" */ 20: 21: to 22: 23: #define SERVER_UIDS 666 /* user "www" */ 24: 25: where 666 is the number that results from step 2 above. 26: 27: make 28: cp pwauth /usr/local/sbin 29: chmod 6755 /usr/local/sbin/pwauth 30: 31: edit (creating the file) /etc/pam.d/pwauth to have the contents 32: auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok 33: auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so 34: account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so 35: 36: 4. make sure you have mod_perl and apache on your system 37: 38: 5. Checkout CVS repository (I'm assuming you're already set up for cvs) 39: cvs co loncapa 40: 41: 6. Install the needed RPMS 42: 43: Needed rpms for RH7.2 install and where to get them (sort of) 44: ------------------------------------------------------------- 45: lon-capa rpms (install.lon-capa.org) 46: ------------------- 47: LON-CAPA-base 48: LON-CAPA-systemperl 49: LON-CAPA-krb4 50: LON-CAPA-mysql 51: LON-CAPA-loncapaconfig 52: LON-CAPA-barcode 53: 54: rpms on rpmfind.net (only accept these versions) 55: ------------------------------------------------ 56: ipxutils ipxutils-2.2.0.18-6.i386.rpm 57: netatalk netatalk-1.5pre6-1rh7.i386.rpm 58: libungif-progs libungif-progs-4.1.0-9.i386.rpm 59: libgd libgd-1.3-4.i386.rpm 60: gnuplot gnuplot-3.7.1-5.i386.rpm 61: 62: rpms on install cds or updates 63: ------------------------------ 64: + sysreport sysreport-1.2-1.noarch.rpm 65: + mars-nwe mars-nwe-0.99pl20-6.i386.rpm 66: + wu-ftpd wu-ftpd-2.6.1-20.i386.rpm 67: + linuxconf linuxconf-1.25r7-3.i386.rpm 68: 69: install these all with rpm -Uvh, occasionally using --force and/or --nodeps 70: 71: rpm -Uvh linuxconf-1.25r7-3.i386.rpm 72: rpm -Uvh sysreport-1.2-1.noarch.rpm 73: rpm -Uvh mars-nwe-0.99pl20-6.i386.rpm 74: rpm -Uvh wu-ftpd-2.6.1-20.i386.rpm 75: rpm -Uvh ipxutils-2.2.0.18-6.i386.rpm 76: rpm -Uvh netatalk-1.5pre6-1rh7.i386.rpm 77: rpm -Uvh libungif-progs-4.1.0-9.i386.rpm 78: rpm -Uvh libgd-1.3-4.i386.rpm 79: rpm -Uvh gnuplot-3.7.1-5.i386.rpm 80: rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps LON-CAPA-base 81: rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps rpm -Uvh LON-CAPA-systemperl.rpm 82: rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps rpm -Uvh LON-CAPA-krb4.rpm 83: rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps rpm -Uvh LON-CAPA-mysql.rpm 84: rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps rpm -Uvh LON-CAPA-loncapaconfig.rpm 85: rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps rpm -Uvh LON-CAPA-barcode.rpm 86: 87: 7. Correct some RPM errors 88: The Perl modules installed by the systemperl rpm are not in the proper place 89: (the rpm was designed for 5.005 and RedHat 7.2 uses 5.6.0). 90: cd /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 91: cp -R * ../5.6.0/ 92: 93: 8. Fix CGI::Cookie.pm 94: 95: edit /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/CGI/Cookie.pm 96: change the lines: 97: # IE requires the path and domain to be present for some reason. 98: $path = CGI::url(-absolute=>1) unless defined $path; 99: to: 100: # IE requires the path and domain to be present for some reason. 101: ($path = $ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'})=~s![^/]+$!! unless $path; 102: 103: 9. update LON-CAPA-base files with CVS 104: cd ~/loncapa 105: cvs update -d 106: cd loncom/build 107: make DIST='redhat7.1' build; make DIST='redhat7.1' install 108: 109: 10. Update LON-CAPA config files 110: 111: httpd configuration: 112: 113: cd /etc/httpd/conf 114: cp access.conf.lpmlnew access.conf 115: edit access.conf to reflect the correct information: 116: 117: PerlSetVar lonHostID YOUR LON-HOST ID 118: PerlSetVar lonRole library 119: PerlSetVar lonAdmEMail YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS 120: PerlSetVar lonDefDomain YOUR DOMAIN 121: PerlSetVar lonLoadLim 2.0 122: PerlSetVar lonExpire 86400 123: PerlSetVar lonReceipt A RANDOM NUMBER (REAL, NOT INTEGER) 124: PerlSetVar lonSqlAccess 123 125: 126: Replace the capitalized text with your information 127: 128: kerberos configuration 129: 130: edit /etc/krb.conf to reflect your kerberos information 131: 132: LON-CAPA hosts configuration: 133: 134: /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab should be updated 135: 136: 11. Restart the daemons 137: /etc/init.d/httpd restart 138: /etc/init.d/loncontrol restart 139: 140: 12. Updated documentation 141: Please help us keep our documentation up to date! If there is something 142: in this document that was unclear or required further explaination, please help 143: us help others by improving it! 144: 145: 146: 147: SOME NOTES ON THE RPMS INSTALLED 148: ------------------------------------------------------------------ 149: gnuplot gnuplot-3.7.1-5.i386.rpm 150: USE ONLY THIS VERSION OF GNUPLOT! Other versions may not have 151: gif support compiled in and dynamically generated plots will fail! 152: libgd libgd-1.3-4.i386.rpm 153: Required by gnuplot