LON-CAPA Installation
Current Installation Procedure
This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have
been tested (almost, I'm going to do this today).
- 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.
- 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.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 USER=www (NEVER EVER EVER EVER AS USER=root) /home/httpd/perl/loncron &.
- 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.