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-LON-CAPA Installation
-
-
-LON-CAPA Installation
-Current Installation Procedure
-
-This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have
-been tested.
-
-- Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by
-
-- Using a RedHat 6.2 CD
-
- Downloading a RedHat 6.2 CD image and burning a CD
-
- Or, alternatively do a network install from a
-RedHat 6.2 CD source tree. You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image;
-
-bootnet-20000407.img. (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a
-command similar to: dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0). For installation, you
-need to specify http://www.lon-capa.org as your download URL, and /install/3.1/currentcdsource
-as the source location.
-
- - Install RedHat 6.2
-
-- Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages
-
- Important: Make sure you add a user "www"
-
- - After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from
-
-http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS.
-
-- Use this command to install the RPMs you download: rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm.
-
- - Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script
-
-http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh as root.
-
- After installing the supplemental RPMS, install a final RPM set by downloading all files from
-
-http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS.
-
-- Use this command to install the RPMs you download: rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm.
-
- - Configure needed files.
-
-- Currently, reconfiguration must be handled manually and involves an administrator
-altering configuration files present throughout the system. For a list of these
-files and their descriptions, visit
-http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html.
-
- Important files are /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf,
-/home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab, /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab (if setting up a cluster different
-than MSU's).
-
- Run, as root, /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start.
-
- After 10 minutes, you should be able to check the file /home/httpd/html/lon-status/index.html
-to see if your machine has been successfully set up.
-
-
-
-Future Installation Procedure (not yet implemented)
-
-In the future, LON-CAPA Installation will be distributed on a CD complete with a
-customized interface. Many elements for doing this have been coded, and are in place, but
-it awaits completion.
-
-
-
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+
+
+
+LON-CAPA Installation
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+You will need to check all the following things to ensure proper
+installation of your LON-CAPA system.
+
+
+
+
+
+Creating a user 'www'
+
+Execute the following command to create a user named 'www' on your
+LON-CAPA server:
+
+
+
+Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords
+
+
+| Step # | Description |
|---|
+|
+1
+ |
+ Is your system using shadow passwords? (Note: LON-CAPA will
+work with either MD5/non-MD5 configured systems). If your
+system is not using shadow passwords, then do not perform
+any of the additional steps. If your system is using shadow
+passwords, then you will need to perform the additional steps below.
+
+
+How to detect:
+
command: cat /etc/passwd | grep ':x:'
+
+If there is output such as "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash",
+then your system is using shadow passwords and you will need to continue with
+the steps below.
+
+ |
+|
+2
+ |
+ Retrieve the mod_auth_external source by
+running the following command
+
+
+wget http://www.wwnet.net/~janc/software/mod_auth_external-2.1.13.tar.gz
+
+
+ |
+|
+3
+ |
+ More steps...
+
+
+There are more steps to include here.
+
+
+ |
+
+
+
+Installing LON-CAPA files
+
+Download the most current
+
+loncapa.tar.gz.
+
+
+The UPDATE command will refresh your filesystem with all
+the latest LON-CAPA software.
+
+
+
+Checking your Linux RPMs
+
+The CHECKRPMS command will check the RPMs on your machine
+against an FTP repository.
+
+
+
+Configuring the MySQL database
+
+The following commands describe how to configure the MySQL database
+on your LON-CAPA server.
+
+
+
+Enter the mysql shell---
+mysql -u root -p mysql
+
+Run these commands---
+CREATE DATABASE loncapa;
+
+INSERT INTO user (Host, User, Password)
+VALUES ('localhost','www',password('SOMEPASSWORD'));
+
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO www@localhost;
+
+FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
+
+shell> mysql -u root mysql
+mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost=PASSWORD('new_password');
+
+ |
+
+Testing to see if the LON-CAPA server is operational
+
+The TEST command will check the installation software,
+the perl libraries on your system, the MySQL database, and
+will also automatically test the real-time operation of the
+LON-CAPA Apache web server.
+
+
+
+
+