Contents
- Introduction
- Prerequisites
- Add a user to run the service
- Install the source
- Configure PostgreSQL
- Configure AOLserver
- Go!
Introduction
This is a cut-down version of the standard OpenACS installation document. It covers installing OpenACS on White Box Enterprise Linux and PostgreSQL. Please read the official doc if you are installing OpenACS as there is extra information in it. However, if you're a newbie who just wants to get something working, you should be able to install White Box and follow my notes word for word.
White Box Enterprise Linux is an open source version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is freely available from whiteboxlinux.org.
The scripts below are the real ones I used, so you'll want to replace the user name and service name with your own ones.
| UNIX user | michaelnet |
|---|---|
| OACS service name | michaelnet |
| Linux hostname | whitebox |
Prerequisites
You should have already installed PostgreSQL and AOLserver, and downloaded the OpenACS tarball to /tmp.
Add a user to run the service
As root:
useradd -g michaelnet -G web michaelnet
Install the source
As root:
mkdir /var/lib/aolserver chgrp web /var/lib/aolserver chmod 770 /var/lib/aolserver su - michaelnet
As michaelnet:
cd /var/lib/aolserver tar xzf /tmp/openacs-5.1.0.tgz mv openacs-5.1.0 michaelnet chmod -R 755 michaelnet chgrp -R michaelnet.michaelnet michaelnet
Configure PostgreSQL
As postgres:
createuser -a -d michaelnet
As michaelnet:
~postgres/bin/createdb -E UNICODE michaelnet
(Please see official doc for optimisation and Full Text Search)
Configure AOLserver
As michaelnet, edit /var/lib/aolserver/michaelnet/etc/config.tcl and change the following lines:
set address 192.168.0.21 set server michaelnet set homedir /usr/local/aolserver406
Go!
The default configuration has AOLserver running on port 8000, so for the above configuration I went to http://192.168.0.21:8000/ and got the OpenACS welcome page. That's where the real fun begins....