<ul>
<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>
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/">SSH</a>
- <li>agrep from the <a href="http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu">Glimpse</a> distribution, if you want fuzzy searching capability
- <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPANl/doc/relinfo/INSTALL.html">Perl</a> (at least 5.004_04)
- <li>A database engine supported by Perl's <a href="http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/">DBI</a>, such as <a href="http://www.tcx.se/">MySQL</a> or <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a>
+ <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/relinfo/INSTALL.html">Perl</a> (at least 5.004_04 for the 5.004 series or 5.005_03 for the 5.005 series. Don't enable experimental features like threads or the PerlIO abstraction layer.)
+ <li>A database engine supported by Perl's <a href="http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/">DBI</a>, such as <a href="http://www.tcx.se/">MySQL</a> or <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> (see the <a href="postgresql.html">PostgreSQL notes</a>)
<li>Perl modules
<ul>
+ <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Array/">Array-PrintCols</a>
+ <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Term/">Term-Query</a>
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/MIME/">MIME-Base64</a>
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Data">Data-Dumper</a>
- <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/MD5">MD5</a>
+ <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/MD5">Digest-MD5</a>
+ <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/URI">URI</a>
+ <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/HTTP">HTML-Parser</a>
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Net">libnet</a>
+ <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Net">Net::Whois</a> with this <a href="Net-Whois-0.23-ivan1.patch">patch</a> applied
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/LWP/">libwww-perl</a>
- <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/CGI/">CGI-modules</a> (<b>NOT</b> CGI.pm) with this <a href="CGI-modules-2.76-patch.txt">patch</a> applied
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Business/">Business-CreditCard</a>
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Data/">Data-ShowTable</a>
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Mail/">MailTools</a>
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Date/">DateManip</a>
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/File/">File-CounterFile</a>
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/FreezeThaw/">FreezeThaw</a>
+ <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/String/">String-Approx</a>
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBI/">DBI
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBD/">DBD for your database engine</a>
</ul>
Install the Freeside distribution:
<ul>
<li>Add the user `freeside' to your system.
- <li>Add the freeside database to your database engine. (with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Syntax.html#Create database">MySQL</a>) (with <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/admin/manage-ag.htm#AEN854">PostgreSQL</a>)
- <li>Allow the freeside user full access to the freeside database. (with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Privilege_system.html#Privilege system">MySQL</a>) (with <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/admin/newuser.htm">PostgreSQL</a>)
+ <li>Add the freeside database to your database engine. (with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Syntax.html#Create_database">MySQL</a>) (with <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/admin/manage-ag.htm#AEN854">PostgreSQL</a>)
+ <li>Allow the freeside user full access to the freeside database. (with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Privilege_system.html#Privilege_system">MySQL</a>) (with <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/admin/newuser.htm">PostgreSQL</a>)
<li>Unpack the tarball: <pre>gunzip -c fs-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xvf -</pre>
<li>Copy or link fs-x.y.z/site_perl to FS in your site_perl directory. (try `<code>perl -V</code>' if unsure) <pre>mkdir /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS
cp fs-x.y.z/site_perl/* /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS</pre> or <pre>ln -s /full/path/to/fs-x.y.z/site_perl /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS</pre>
cp -r fs-x.y.z/htdocs/* /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside</pre> or <pre>ln -s /full/path/to/fs-x.y.z/htdocs /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside</pre>
<li>Restrict access to this web interface. (with <a href="http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#user-authentication">Apache</a>)
<li>Enable CGI execution for files with the `.cgi' extension. (with <a href="http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler">Apache</a>)
- <li>Set ownership and permissions for the web interface. Your system should support secure setuid scripts or Perl's emulation, see <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlsec.html#Security_Bugs">perlsec: Security Bugs</a> for information and workarounds.
+ <li>Set ownership and permissions for the web interface. The web interface needs to run as the freeside user - there are several ways to do this.
+ <ul>
+ <li>Use Perl's setuid emulation: see the <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlsec.html#Security_Bugs">Security Bugs</a> section of the <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlsec.html">perlsec</a> manpage.
<pre>cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside
chown -R freeside .
chmod 4755 browse/*.cgi edit/*.cgi edit/process/*.cgi misc/*.cgi misc/process/*.cgi search/*.cgi view/*.cgi</pre>
-<li>Create the base Freeside directory `/var/spool/freeside', and the subdirectories `conf', `counters', and `export'. <pre>mkdir /var/spool/freeside
-mkdir /var/spool/freeside/conf
-mkdir /var/spool/freeside/counters
-mkdir /var/spool/freeside/export
-chown -R freeside /var/spool/freeside</pre>
- <li>Create the necessary <a href="config.html">configuration files</a>.
- <li>Run bin/fs-setup to create the database tables.
+ <li>Use Apache's <a href="http://www.apache.org/docs/suexec.html">suEXEC</a>.
+<pre>cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside
+chown -R freeside .
+chmod 755 browse/*.cgi edit/*.cgi edit/process/*.cgi misc/*.cgi misc/process/*.cgi search/*.cgi view/*.cgi</pre>
+ <li>Use <a href="http://perl.apache.org/">mod_perl</a>. You should run a separate iteration of Apache[-SSL] as the freeside user. (Warning: The redirect method of CGI.pm 2.36 [as distributed with Perl 5.004_04] is broken under mod_perl. Downlaod the current version from <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/CGI">CPAN</a>. Apache 1.3.6 is also highly recommended because of signal handling problems in earlier versions.)
+<pre>cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside
+chown -R root .
+chmod 755 browse/*.cgi edit/*.cgi edit/process/*.cgi misc/*.cgi misc/process/*.cgi search/*.cgi view/*.cgi</pre>
+ </ul>
+<li>Create the necessary <a href="config.html">configuration files</a>.
+<li>Create the `/usr/local/etc/freeside/counters.<i>datasrc</i>', and
+ `/usr/local/etc/freeside/export.<i>datasrc</i>' directories for each <i>datasrc</i> (owned by the freeside user).
+ <li>As the freeside user, run bin/fs-setup to create the database tables.
</ul>
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