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LON-CAPA Installation

Current Installation Procedure

+Scott Harrison +

+

+Last updated: 11/21/2000 +

+

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). +been tested.

  1. Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by +
  2. Install RedHat 6.2 + +
  3. After installation, restart the computer. Login as root. Enter these two commands: +
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    1. lynx -source http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/postinstall.pl>postinstall.pl +
    2. perl postinstall.pl +
    +
  4. As postinstall.pl runs, you will be asked various questions. Follow the instructions to correctly +enter in the appropriate parameter values. +
+
+

Old steps; do not use these...

+Last updated: 11/01/2000 +

+

+This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have +been tested. +

    +
  1. Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by +
  2. Install RedHat 6.2 @@ -27,24 +66,59 @@ as the source location.
  3. Important: Make sure you add a user "www"
  4. After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from - -http://www.lon-capa.org/install/3.1/SupplementalRPMS. + +http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS.
  5. Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script - -http://www.lon-capa.org/install/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh as root. + +http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh as root. +
  6. After installing the supplemental RPMS, install a final RPM set by downloading all files from + +http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS. +
  7. Configure needed files.
  8. 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) -
  9. Run AS USER=www (NEVER EVER EVER EVER AS USER=root) /home/httpd/perl/loncron &. +than MSU's). +
  10. Unshadow passwords + +
  11. Run, as root, ln -s /etc/mime.types /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types +
  12. Run, as root, /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start. +
  13. Run, as root, /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start.
  14. 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.