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1.1       ng          1: Scott Harrison
1.2     ! harris41    2: $Date$; $Revision$
1.1       ng          3: 
1.2     ! harris41    4: The standard process is to install LON-CAPA with an installation
        !             5: CD on a fresh system.  We provide this document as a secondary
        !             6: service to those who wish to install and experiment on an existing
        !             7: Linux system.
1.1       ng          8: 
1.2     ! harris41    9: These are the current steps for installing LON-CAPA on an existing
        !            10: RedHat 6.2 system.  Please note that step 1 is optional.  You can
        !            11: run LON-CAPA on a shadow-based system.  However, you need to follow
        !            12: steps at http://install.lon-capa.org/docs/loncapapasswordauthentication.html.
1.1       ng         13: 
                     14: 1.  disable shadow and md5sum passwords
                     15: remove 'md5 shadow' from 'password required' lines in
                     16: /etc/pam.d/login
                     17: /etc/pam.d/passwd
                     18: 
                     19: then run /usr/sbin/pwunconv and
                     20: /usr/sbin/grpunconv
                     21: 
                     22: and then, manually enter in all your passwords again
                     23: first for root
                     24: passwd
                     25: and then the usernames...
                     26: passwd username1
                     27: passwd username2
                     28: 
                     29: 2.  make sure you have a web server
                     30: 
                     31: 3.  make sure you have mod_perl
                     32: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/RedHat/RPMS/mod_perl-1.23-3.i386.rpm
                     33: 
                     34: 4.  cvs co loncapa (see install.lon-capa.org for instructions)
                     35: 
                     36: 5.  Install the LON-CAPA-base RPM
                     37: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/RedHat/RPMS/LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm
                     38: rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps /home/ng/RPMS/LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm
                     39: 
                     40: 6.  Add a user www.
                     41:     /usr/sbin/adduser www
                     42: 
                     43: 7.  make sure you have all the needed RPMs
                     44:     as root, cd loncapa/loncom/build; make rpmstatuspost
                     45:     look at the status of your RPMS
                     46:     http://MACHINENAME/lon-status/rpmstatus.html
                     47: 
                     48:     install/upgrade the ones you don't have
                     49:     probably start with the out-of-date RPMs
                     50:     and then run make rpmstatuspost again
                     51: 
                     52:     install RPMs from the minimal set
                     53:     (you might want to be a little selective here.. like, you
                     54:      don't "need" autofs)
                     55: 
                     56:     install RPMs from the development set
                     57:     (you might want to be a LOT selective here)
                     58: 
                     59: 8.  update LON-CAPA-base files with CVS
                     60:     cvs update -d
                     61:     cd loncom/build
                     62:     make install; make configinstall
                     63: 
                     64: 9.  run /usr/sbin/loncapaconfig and change the settings on your
                     65:     machine
                     66: 
                     67: 10. restart all the services
                     68: /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
                     69: /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol restart