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1.1       ng          1: Scott Harrison
1.3     ! harris41    2: $Date: 2001/11/28 16:43:52 $; $Revision: 1.2 $
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
1.3     ! harris41   10: RedHat 6.2 system.  Where possible, I have tried to indicate steps
        !            11: for RedHat 7.1.  Please note that step 1 is optional.  You can
1.2       harris41   12: run LON-CAPA on a shadow-based system.  However, you need to follow
                     13: steps at http://install.lon-capa.org/docs/loncapapasswordauthentication.html.
1.1       ng         14: 
1.3     ! harris41   15: SUMMARY
        !            16: 
        !            17: This is what has to happen in the installation.
        !            18: * Install LON-CAPA files
        !            19: * Configure system
        !            20: * Make sure you have the right software packages (RPMS)
        !            21: 
        !            22: Note that
        !            23: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS
        !            24: are generally meant for RedHat 6.2 systems.
        !            25: 
        !            26: For RedHat 7.1/7.2, you will have to manually
        !            27: inspect CVS:doc/otherfiles/rpm_list.txt
        !            28: 
        !            29: 1. (NOW OPTIONAL).  disable shadow and md5sum passwords
1.1       ng         30: remove 'md5 shadow' from 'password required' lines in
                     31: /etc/pam.d/login
                     32: /etc/pam.d/passwd
                     33: 
                     34: then run /usr/sbin/pwunconv and
                     35: /usr/sbin/grpunconv
                     36: 
                     37: and then, manually enter in all your passwords again
                     38: first for root
                     39: passwd
                     40: and then the usernames...
                     41: passwd username1
                     42: passwd username2
                     43: 
1.3     ! harris41   44: 2.  make sure you have a web server (apache)
1.1       ng         45: 
                     46: 3.  make sure you have mod_perl
1.3     ! harris41   47: RedHat 6.2:
        !            48: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS/mod_perl-1.23-3.i386.rpm
1.1       ng         49: 
1.3     ! harris41   50: 4. Checkout CVS repository
        !            51:   cvs co loncapa (see install.lon-capa.org
        !            52: http://install.lon-capa.org/docs/cvsupgrade/
        !            53:  for more cvs instructions)
1.1       ng         54: 
                     55: 5.  Install the LON-CAPA-base RPM
1.3     ! harris41   56: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS/LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm
        !            57: rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm
        !            58: 
        !            59: If you are using RedHat 7.1, the only file you really need from this
        !            60: RPM is tth.so.
        !            61: 
        !            62: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/binaries/tth.so
1.1       ng         63: 
1.3     ! harris41   64: 6. Add a user www.
1.1       ng         65:     /usr/sbin/adduser www
                     66: 
1.3     ! harris41   67: 7. Make sure you have all the needed RPMs
        !            68: 
        !            69:     The following instructions only work for RedHat 6.2.
        !            70:     If you are using RedHat 7.1/7.2, you will need to
        !            71:     manually inspect CVS:doc/otherfiles/rpm_list.txt.
        !            72: 
        !            73:     As root, cd loncapa/loncom/build; make rpmstatuspost
1.1       ng         74:     look at the status of your RPMS
                     75:     http://MACHINENAME/lon-status/rpmstatus.html
                     76: 
                     77:     install/upgrade the ones you don't have
                     78:     probably start with the out-of-date RPMs
                     79:     and then run make rpmstatuspost again
                     80: 
                     81:     install RPMs from the minimal set
                     82:     (you might want to be a little selective here.. like, you
                     83:      don't "need" autofs)
                     84: 
                     85:     install RPMs from the development set
                     86:     (you might want to be a LOT selective here)
                     87: 
                     88: 8.  update LON-CAPA-base files with CVS
                     89:     cvs update -d
                     90:     cd loncom/build
1.3     ! harris41   91:     make build; make install
        !            92: NOTE!!!
        !            93: REDHAT 7.1 or 7.2  (make DIST='redhat7.1' build; make DIST='redhat7.1' install)
1.1       ng         94: 
                     95: 9.  run /usr/sbin/loncapaconfig and change the settings on your
                     96:     machine
                     97: 
1.3     ! harris41   98:     OR
        !            99: 
        !           100:     manually edit 
        !           101:     /etc/krb.conf
        !           102:     /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf
        !           103:     /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab
        !           104: 
1.1       ng        105: 10. restart all the services
                    106: /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
                    107: /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol restart
1.3     ! harris41  108: 
        !           109: 11. The next step will be to experiment with your system.
        !           110: If you are setting up a machine for test purposes, I recommend
        !           111: you set up a domain coordinator.  See CVS:doc/how_to_domain_coordinator.txt