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LON-CAPA Reconfiguration

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Current Reconfiguration Procedure

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-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/loncapafiles.html. -

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Future Reconfiguration Procedure (not yet implemented)

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-In the future, LON-CAPA Reconfiguration will be handled by a GUI tool (and text-based UI) -developed as an offshoot from the RedHat anaconda python-Tk system. This tool is -already working in many respects, but awaits completion. -

- - \ No newline at end of file + + + + + +Configuration of a LON-CAPA Server + + + + + +

+There are about a dozen files on the LON-CAPA server systems +which the system administrator may need to adjust. +

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+The two most important configuration files are: +

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Current Reconfiguration Procedure

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+After making any configuration change, you will need to restart system +services. The two most important system services on a LON-CAPA system are +loncapa and httpd. Here are the +commands for restarting the system services: +

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+/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncapa restart +
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart +
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+We recommend that a knowledgeable system administrator should +perform any adjustments on a LON-CAPA server machine. +Locations of these files are by default. Depending on your +Linux distribution--RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, etc, the file paths +may be elsewhere. +

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Configuration files that will have to be altered

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+LON-CAPA currently depends on the following list of configuration +files. Note that loncapa.conf is automatically +altered by the installation/upgrade scripts associated with +the tarball-distribution (see the INSTALL and UPGRADE +sections of this web-site). (Thus, the system administrator should +not have to further adjust loncapa.conf from the terminal.) +

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Configuration files that do not have to be altered

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+The following configuration files are critical for the correct +performance of a LON-CAPA server machine. Typically, these configuration +files do not need to be adjusted by the system administrator. +

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Configuring Secondary Services

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+LON-CAPA does not provide integrated support for secondary services. +The expectation is that knowledgeable system administrators will +customize these secondary services for their institution. +

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+We do, however, provide example configurations of services that you +may want to deliver with LON-CAPA (i.e. Samba and AppleChooser). +

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