<li>A <b>transactional</b> database engine supported by Perl's <a href="http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/">DBI</a>.
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> (v7 or higher) is recommended.
- <li>MySQL has been reported to work. <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>, and set it as the default table type using the <code>--default-table-type=BDB</code> <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#Command-line_options">mysqld command-line option</a> or by setting <code>default-table-type=BDB</code> in the <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#Option_files">my.cnf option file</a>.
+ <li><b>MySQL does not work at this time.</b>
+ <i>The following information is provided for developers who wish to contribute MySQL support:</i> See tickets <a href="http://pouncequick.420.am/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=300">#300</a> and <a href="http://pouncequick.420.am/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=334">#334</a> in the bug-tracking system.
+ <!-- <li>MySQL has been reported to work. -->
+ <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>, and set it as the default table type using the <code>--default-table-type=BDB</code> <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#Command-line_options">mysqld command-line option</a> or by setting <code>default-table-type=BDB</code> in the <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#Option_files">my.cnf option file</a>.
</ul>
<li>Perl modules (<a href="http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/CPAN.html">CPAN</a> will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
<ul>
<li> with <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/user-manag.html#DATABASE-USERS">PostgreSQL</a>:
<pre>
$ su postgres
-$ createuser -P freeside</pre>
+$ createuser -P freeside
+Enter password for user "freeside":
+Enter it again:
+Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
+Shall the new user be allowed to create more new users? (y/n) n
+CREATE USER</pre>
<li> with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#User_Account_Management">MySQL</a>:
<pre>
$ mysqladmin -u root password '<i>set_a_root_database_password</i>'
<li>Run <tt>make aspdocs</tt>
<li>Copy <tt>aspdocs/</tt> to your web server's document space.
<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>
- <li>Copy <tt>htetc/global.asa</tt> to the Global directory.
+ <li>Copy <tt>htetc/global.asa</tt> to the Global directory:
+<font size="-1"><pre>
+cp htetc/global.asa /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/global.asa
+</pre></font>
<li>Configure Apache for the Global directory and to execute .cgi files using Apache::ASP. For example:
<font size="-1"><pre>
-<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp>
+<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp>
<Files ~ (\.cgi)>
AddHandler perl-script .cgi
PerlHandler Apache::ASP
<Perl>
$MLDBM::RemoveTaint = 1;
</Perl>
-PerlSetVar Global /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
+PerlSetVar Global /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
PerlSetVar Debug 2
</Directory>
</pre></font>
<li>Edit <tt>handler.pl</tt> and set an appropriate <tt>data_dir</tt>, such as <tt>/usr/local/etc/freeside/mason-data</tt>
<li>Configure Apache to use the <tt>handler.pl</tt> file and to execute .cgi files using HTML::Mason. For example:
<font size="-1"><pre>
-<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason>
+<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason>
<Files ~ (\.cgi)>
AddHandler perl-script .cgi
PerlHandler HTML::Mason
</Files>
<Perl>
-require "/usr/local/apache/conf/handler.pl";
+require "/usr/local/apache/conf/handler.pl";
</Perl>
</Directory>
</pre></font>