2 <title>Installation</title>
6 Before installing, you need:
8 <li>A web server, such as <a href="http://www.apache-ssl.org">Apache-SSL</a> or <a href="http://www.apache.org">Apache</a>
9 <li><a href="http://perl.apache.org/">mod_perl</a>
10 <li><a href="http://www.openssh.com//">SSH</a> (<a href="http://www.openssh.com//">OpenSSH</a> is recommended. SSH Communications Security commercial <a href="http://www.ssh.com/products/ssh/download.cfm">SSH version 3</a> has been reported incompatible with Freeside.)
11 <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/">Perl</a> Don't enable experimental features like threads or the PerlIO abstraction layer.
12 <li>A <b>transactional</b> database engine supported by Perl's <a href="http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/">DBI</a>. <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> is recommended. <b>MySQL's default <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/y/MyISAM.html">MyISAM</a> and <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/S/ISAM.html">ISAM</a> table types are not supported</b>. If you really want to use MySQL, you need to use one of the new <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/T/a/Table_types.html">transaction-safe table types</a> such as <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/D/BDB.html">BDB</a>.
13 <li>Perl modules (<a href="http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/CPAN.html">CPAN</a> will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
15 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Array-PrintCols">Array-PrintCols</a>
16 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Term-Query">Term-Query</a> (make test broken; install manually)
17 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MIME-Base64">MIME-Base64</a>
18 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Digest-MD5">Digest-MD5</a>
19 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=URI">URI</a>
20 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Tagset">HTML-Tagset</a>
21 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Parser">HTML-Parser</a>
22 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libnet">libnet</a>
23 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Locale-Codes">Locale-Codes</a>
24 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-Whois">Net-Whois</a>
25 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libwww-perl">libwww-perl</a>
26 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Business-CreditCard">Business-CreditCard</a>
27 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Data-ShowTable">Data-ShowTable</a>
28 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MailTools">MailTools</a>
29 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=TimeDate">TimeDate</a>
30 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DateManip">DateManip</a>
31 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=File-CounterFile">File-CounterFile</a>
32 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=FreezeThaw">FreezeThaw</a>
33 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=String-Approx">String-Approx</a>
34 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Text-Template">Text-Template</a>
35 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBI">DBI</a>
36 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=DBD">DBD for your database engine</a>
37 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBIx-DBSchema">DBIx-DBSchema</a>
38 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-SSH">Net-SSH</a>
39 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=String-ShellQuote">String-ShellQuote</a>
40 <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-SCP">Net-SCP</a>
41 <li><a href="http://www.apache-asp.org/">Apache::ASP</a> or <a href="http://www.masonhq.com/">HTML::Mason</a>
44 Install the Freeside distribution:
46 <li>Add the user `freeside' to your system.
47 <li>Allow the freeside user full access to the freeside database.
49 <li> with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Privilege_system.html#Privilege_system">MySQL</a>:<pre>$ mysqladmin -u root password '<i>set_a_root_database_password</i>'
51 mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,INDEX,ALTER,CREATE,DROP on freeside.* TO freeside@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '<i>set_a_freeside_database_password</i>';</pre>
52 <li> with <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/user-manag.html#DATABASE-USERS">PostgreSQL</a>
54 <li>Add the freeside database to your database engine. (with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Reference.html#CREATE_DATABASE">MySQL</a>) (with <a href="http://postgresql.readysetnet.com/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/managing-databases.html#MANAGE-AG-CREATEDB">PostgreSQL</a>)
55 <li>Unpack the tarball: <pre>gunzip -c fs-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xvf -</pre>
56 <li>Build and install the Perl libraries:
62 # make install UNINST=1</pre>
63 <li>You should run a separate iteration of Apache[-SSL] with mod_perl enabled as the freeside user.
67 <th>Apache::ASP</th><th>Mason</th>
71 <li>Run <tt>make aspdocs</tt>
72 <li>Copy <tt>aspdocs/</tt> to your web server's document space.
73 <li>Create a <a href="http://www.apache-asp.org/config.html#Global">Global</a> directory, such as <tt>/usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/</tt>
74 <li>Copy <tt>htetc/global.asa</tt> to the Global directory.
75 <li>Configure Apache for the Global directory and to execute .cgi files using Apache::ASP. For example:
77 <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp>
78 <Files ~ (\.cgi)>
79 AddHandler perl-script .cgi
80 PerlHandler Apache::ASP
83 $MLDBM::RemoveTaint = 1;
85 PerlSetVar Global /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
90 <li>NOTE: Mason support is still a bit buggy in the 1.4.0 prereleases. This will be fixed before 1.4.0. You have been warned.
91 <li>Run <tt>make masondocs</tt>
92 <li>Copy <tt>masondocs/</tt> to your web server's document space.
93 <li>Copy <tt>htetc/handler.pl</tt> to your web server's configuration directory.
94 <li>Edit <tt>handler.pl</tt> and set an appropriate <tt>data_dir</tt>, such as <tt>/usr/local/etc/freeside/mason-data</tt>
95 <li>Configure Apache to use the <tt>handler.pl</tt> file and to execute .cgi files using HTML::Mason. For example:
97 <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason>
98 <Files ~ (\.cgi)>
99 AddHandler perl-script .cgi
100 PerlHandler HTML::Mason
103 require "/usr/local/apache/conf/handler.pl";
111 <li>Restrict access to this web interface. (with <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#user-authentication">Apache</a>)
112 <li>Create the necessary <a href="config.html">configuration files</a>.
113 <li>Create the `/usr/local/etc/freeside/counters.<i>datasrc</i>',
114 `/usr/local/etc/freeside/cache.<i>datasrc</i>', and
115 `/usr/local/etc/freeside/export.<i>datasrc</i>' directories for each <i>datasrc</i> (owned by the freeside user).
116 <li>As the freeside user, run bin/fs-setup to create the database tables.
117 <li>freeside-queued was installed with the Perl modules. Start it now and ensure that is run upon system startup.
118 <li>Now proceed to the initial <a href="admin.html">administration</a> of your installation.