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1:  2:  3: <html> 4: <head> 5: <title>LON-CAPA Installation</title> 6:  7:  8: </head> 9: <body bgcolor='#ffffff'> 10:  11: <br />  12: <p> 13: You will need to check all the following things to ensure proper 14: installation of your LON-CAPA system. 15: <ul> 16: <li><a href="#wwwuser"> 17: Creating a user 'www'</a></li> 18: <li><a href="#shadow"> 19: Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords</a></li> 20: <li><a href="#install"> 21: Installing LON-CAPA files</a></li> 22: <li><a href="#checkrpms"> 23: Checking your Linux RPMs</a></li> 24: <li><a href="#mysql"> 25: Configuring the MySQL database</a></li> 26: </ul> 27: <br />  28:  29:  30: <a name="wwwuser" /> 31: <h3>Creating a user 'www'</h3> 32: <p> 33: Execute the following command to create a user named 'www' on your 34: LON-CAPA server: 35: </p> 36: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"><tr><td> 37: <tt>/usr/sbin/useradd www</tt> 38: </td></tr></table> 39: <a name="shadow" /> 40: <h3>Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords</h3> 41: <p> 42: <table border="1"> 43: <tr><th>Step #</th><th>Description</th></tr> 44: <tr><td> 45: <font size="+1">1</font> 46: </td><td> 47: <p>Is your system using shadow passwords? (Note: LON-CAPA will 48: work with either MD5/non-MD5 configured systems). If your 49: system is not using shadow passwords, then do not perform 50: any of the additional steps. If your system is using shadow 51: passwords, then you will need to perform the additional steps below. 52: </p> 53: <p> 54: <strong>How to detect:</strong> 55: <br />command: <tt>cat /etc/passwd | grep ':x:'</tt> 56: </p> 57: <p>If there is output such as "<tt>root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash</tt>", 58: then your system is using shadow passwords and you will need to continue with 59: the steps below. 60: </p> 61: </td></tr> 62: <tr><td> 63: <font size='+1'>2</font> 64: </td><td> 65: <p><strong>Retrieve the mod_auth_external source</strong> by 66: running the following command 67: </p> 68: <p><tt> 69: wget http://www.wwnet.net/~janc/software/mod_auth_external-2.1.13.tar.gz 70: </tt> 71: </p> 72: </td></tr> 73: <tr><td> 74: <font size='+1'>3</font> 75: </td><td> 76: <p><strong>More steps...</strong> 77: </p> 78: <p><tt> 79: There are more steps to include here. 80: </tt> 81: </p> 82: </td></tr> 83: </table> 84: </p> 85: <a name="install" /> 86: <h3>Installing LON-CAPA files</h3> 87: <p> 88: Download the most current 89: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/current/loncapa.tar.gz"> 90: loncapa.tar.gz</a>. 91: </p> 92: <p> 93: The <strong>UPDATE</strong> command will refresh your filesystem with all 94: the latest LON-CAPA software. 95: </p> 96: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"> 97: <tr><td><tt>./UPDATE</tt></td></tr> 98: </table> 99: <a name="checkrpms" /> 100: <h3>Checking your Linux RPMs</h3> 101: <p> 102: The <strong>CHECKRPMS</strong> command will check the RPMs on your machine 103: against an FTP repository. 104: </p> 105: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"> 106: <tr><td><tt>./CHECKRPMS</tt></td></tr> 107: </table> 108: <a name="mysql" /> 109: <h3>Configuring the MySQL database</h3> 110: <p> 111: The following commands describe how to configure the MySQL database 112: on your LON-CAPA server. 113: </p> 114: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"><tr><td> 115: <pre> 116: Enter the mysql shell--- 117: mysql -u root -p mysql 118: 119: Run these commands--- 120: CREATE DATABASE loncapa; 121: 122: INSERT INTO user (Host, User, Password) 123: VALUES ('localhost','www',password('SOMEPASSWORD')); 124: 125: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO www@localhost; 126: 127: FLUSH PRIVILEGES; 128: 129: shell> mysql -u root mysql 130: mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost=PASSWORD('new_password'); 131: </pre> 132: </td></tr></table> 133:  134: </body> 135: </html>