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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). -

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  1. Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by - -
  2. Install RedHat 6.2 - -
  3. After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from - -http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS. - -
  4. Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script - -http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh as root. -
  5. Configure needed files. - -
-

-

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. -

- - + + + + +LON-CAPA Installation + + + + + +
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+You will need to check all the following things to ensure proper +installation of your LON-CAPA system. +

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Creating a user 'www'

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Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords

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Step #Description
+1 + +

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. +

+

+How to detect: +
command: cat /etc/passwd | grep ':x:' +

+

If there is output such as "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash", +then your system is using shadow passwords and you will need to continue with +the steps below. +

+
+2 + +

Retrieve the mod_auth_external source by +running the following command +

+

+wget http://www.wwnet.net/~janc/software/mod_auth_external-2.1.13.tar.gz + +

+
+3 + +

More steps... +

+

+There are more steps to include here. + +

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+

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+

Installing LON-CAPA files

+

+Download the most current + +loncapa.tar.gz. +

+ +

Checking your Linux RPMs

+

+The CHECKRPMS command will check the RPMs on your machine against +an FTP repository. +

+ + +
./CHECKRPMS
+
+

Configuring the MySQL database

+

+The following commands describe how to configure the MySQL database +on your LON-CAPA server. +

+
+
+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');
+
+
+ +

LON-CAPA Installation

+

Current Installation Procedure

+

+Scott Harrison +

+

$Date: 2002/04/23 12:33:40 $; $Revision: 1.13 $

+

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

+
    +
  1. Get LON-CAPA on a CD by +
  2. +
  3. Install with CD-ROM +
  4. +
  5. After installation, restart the computer. Login as root. Enter this +command (you only need to do this after your first reboot): +
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    1. sh /usr/sbin/loncapa_configure
    2. +
  6. +
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+

+You can also try to install LON-CAPA on an existing installation of +RedHat 6.2. Please see +how_to_install_loncapa_on_a_preinstalled_system.txt. +

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