- mysql 4.1 is available; update documentation
[freeside.git] / httemplate / docs / install.html
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@@ -12,17 +12,18 @@ Before installing, you need:
   <li><a href="http://rsync.samba.org/">rsync</a>
   <li>A <b>transactional</b> database engine <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=DBD%3A%3A">supported</a> by Perl's <a href="http://dbi.perl.org">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 want to use MySQL, you <b>must</b> 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> or <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/n/InnoDB.html">InnoDB</a>, and set it as the default table type <!-- when running fs-setup --> using the <code>--default-table-type=BDB</code> or <code>--default-table-type=InnoDB</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> or <code>default-table-type=InnoDB</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><a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> is recommended (v7or later).
+      <li><a href="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</a> <b>MINIMUM VERSION 4.1</b> is untested but may work.   Versions before 4.1 do not support standard SQL subqueries and are <b>NOT SUPPORTED</b>.  If you are a developer who wishes to contribute MySQL 3.x/4.0 support, see <a href="http://pouncequick.420.am/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=438">ticket #438</a> in the bug-tracking system and ask on the -devel mailing list.
+<!--       <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 want to use MySQL, you <b>must</b> 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> or <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/n/InnoDB.html">InnoDB</a>, and set it as the default table type using the <code>--default-table-type=BDB</code> or <code>--default-table-type=InnoDB</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> or <code>default-table-type=InnoDB</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><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Array-PrintCols">Array-PrintCols</a>
-      <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Term-Query">Term-Query</a> (make test broken; install manually)
+<!--      <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Array-PrintCols">Array-PrintCols</a>
+      <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Term-Query">Term-Query</a> (make test broken; install manually) -->
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MIME-Base64">MIME-Base64</a>
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Digest-MD5">Digest-MD5</a>
-      <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MD5">MD5</a>
+<!--      <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MD5">MD5</a> -->
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=URI">URI</a>
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Tagset">HTML-Tagset</a>
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Parser">HTML-Parser</a>
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ Before installing, you need:
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-Whois">Net-Whois</a>
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libwww-perl">libwww-perl</a>
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Business-CreditCard">Business-CreditCard</a>
-      <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Data-ShowTable">Data-ShowTable</a>
+<!--      <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Data-ShowTable">Data-ShowTable</a> -->
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MailTools">MailTools</a>
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=TimeDate">TimeDate</a>
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DateManip">DateManip</a>
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ Before installing, you need:
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Time-Duration">Time-Duration</a>
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Widgets-SelectLayers">HTML-Widgets-SelectLayers</a>
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Storable">Storable</a>
+<!-- MyAccounts, maybe only for dev     <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Cache-Cache">Cache::Cache</a> -->
       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=ApacheDBI">Apache::DBI</a> <i>(optional but recommended for better webinterface performance)</i>
     </ul>
 </ul>
@@ -109,7 +111,10 @@ $ su
   <tr>
     <td><ul>
       <li>Run <tt>make aspdocs</tt>
-      <li>Copy <tt>aspdocs/</tt> to your web server's document space.
+      <li>Copy <tt>aspdocs/</tt> to your web server's document space:
+<font size="-1"><pre>
+cp&nbsp;aspdocs&nbsp;/usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp
+</pre></font>
       <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>:
 <font size="-1"><pre>
 mkdir&nbsp;/usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
@@ -121,6 +126,7 @@ cp&nbsp;htetc/global.asa&nbsp;/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>
+PerlModule Apache::ASP
 &lt;Directory&nbsp;/usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp&gt;
 &lt;Files ~ (\.cgi)&gt;
 AddHandler perl-script .cgi
@@ -142,6 +148,7 @@ PerlSetVar Debug 2
       <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>
+PerlModule HTML::Mason
 &lt;Directory&nbsp;/usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason&gt;
 &lt;Files ~ (\.cgi)&gt;
 AddHandler perl-script .cgi
@@ -179,7 +186,7 @@ $ <a href="man/bin/freeside-adduser.html">freeside-adduser</a> -h /usr/local/etc
   <li>As the freeside UNIX user, run <tt>bin/fs-setup <b>username</b></tt> (in the untar'ed freeside directory) to create the database tables, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
 <pre>
 $ su freeside
-$ cd <b>/path/to/freeside-1.4.0/</b>
+$ cd <b>/path/to/freeside/</b>
 $ bin/fs-setup <b>username</b>
 </pre>
   <li>As the freeside UNIX user, run <tt>bin/populate-msgcat <b>username</b></tt> (in the untar'ed freeside directory) to populate the message catalog, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above: