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You will need to check all the following things to ensure proper
installation of your LON-CAPA system.
<ul>
<li><a href="#wwwuser">
Creating a user 'www'</a></li>
<li><a href="#shadow">
Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords</a></li>
<li><a href="#install">
Installing LON-CAPA files</a></li>
<li><a href="#checkrpms">
Checking your Linux RPMs</a></li>
<li><a href="#mysql">
Configuring the MySQL database</a></li>
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<h3>Creating a user 'www'</h3>
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<h3>Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords</h3>
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<tr><th>Step #</th><th>Description</th></tr>
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<font size='+1'>1</font>
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<p>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.
</p>
<p>
<strong>How to detect:</strong>
<br />command: <tt>cat /etc/passwd | grep ':x:'</tt>
</p>
<p>If there is output such as "<tt>root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash</tt>",
then your system is using shadow passwords and you will need to continue with
the steps below.
</p>
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<tr><td>
<font size='+1'>2</font>
</td><td>
<p><strong>Retrieve the mod_auth_external source</strong> by
running the following command
</p>
<p><tt>
wget http://www.wwnet.net/~janc/software/mod_auth_external-2.1.13.tar.gz
</tt>
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<font size='+1'>3</font>
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<p><strong>More steps...</strong>
</p>
<p><tt>
There are more steps to include here.
</tt>
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<h3>Installing LON-CAPA files</h3>
<p>
Download the most current
<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/current/loncapa.tar.gz">
loncapa.tar.gz</a>.
</p>
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<h3>Checking your Linux RPMs</h3>
<p>
The CHECKRPMS command will check the RPMs on your machine against
an FTP repository.
</p>
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<tr><td><tt>./CHECKRPMS</tt></td></tr>
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<h3>Configuring the MySQL database</h3>
<p>
The following commands describe how to configure the MySQL database
on your LON-CAPA server.
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<pre>
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');
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<h1>LON-CAPA Installation</h1>
<h3>Current Installation Procedure</h3>
<p>
Scott Harrison
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<p>$Date: 2002/04/23 12:33:40 $; $Revision: 1.13 $</p>
<p>
This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation.  These
steps have been tested.</p>
<ol>
<li>Get LON-CAPA on a CD by
<ul>
<li>Requesting a LON-CAPA installation CD (c/o Helen Keefe, 
helen@lon-capa.org).</li>
<li>Or, downloading a LON-CAPA installation
<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and
burning a CD.</li>
<li>(Depending on whether your computer has a bootable CD-ROM, you may
need to also make a boot floppy.  Download this floppy disk image file: 
<a href=
"http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/boot-20000407.img">
boot-20000407.img</a>.  (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk;
and type this command: <tt>dd if=boot-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</tt>).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Install with CD-ROM
<ul>
<li>Follow the <A HREF="instructions_with_cd.html">
CD-ROM installation instructions</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>After installation, restart the computer.  Login as root.  Enter this
command (you only need to do this after your first reboot):
<ol>
<li><tt>sh /usr/sbin/loncapa_configure</tt></li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
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<p>
You can also try to install LON-CAPA on an existing installation of
RedHat 6.2.  Please see <a
href='how_to_install_loncapa_on_a_preinstalled_system.txt'>
how_to_install_loncapa_on_a_preinstalled_system.txt</a>.
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