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@@ -10,13 +10,11 @@ Before installing, you need:
mod_perl (if compiling your own mod_perl, make sure you set the EVERYTHING=1 compile-time option)
SSH (OpenSSH is recommended. SSH Communications Security commercial SSH version 3 has been reported incompatible with Freeside.)
rsync
- A transactional database engine supported by Perl's DBI.
+ A transactional database engine supported by Perl's DBI.
- PostgreSQL (v7 or higher) is recommended.
-
- MySQL does not work at this time.
- The following information is provided for developers who wish to contribute MySQL support: See ticket #300 in the bug-tracking system.
-
- MySQL's default MyISAM and ISAM table types are not supported. If you really want to use MySQL, you need to use one of the new transaction-safe table types such as BDB, and set it as the default table type using the
--default-table-type=BDB mysqld command-line option or by setting default-table-type=BDB in the my.cnf option file.
+ - MySQL has been reported to work.
+ MySQL's default MyISAM and ISAM table types are not supported. If you want to use MySQL, you must use one of the new transaction-safe table types such as BDB or InnoDB, and set it as the default table type when running fs-setup using the
--default-table-type=BDB or --default-table-type=InnoDB mysqld command-line option or by setting default-table-type=BDB or --default-table-type=InnoDB in the my.cnf option file.
Perl modules (CPAN will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
Install the Freeside distribution:
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,INDEX,ALTER,CREATE,DROP on freeside.* T
Edit the top-level Makefile:
- - Set DATASOURCE to your DBI data source, for example, DBI:Pg:host=localhost;dbname=freeside for PostgresSQL or DBI:mysql:freeside for MySQL. See the DBI manpage and the manpage for your DBD for the exact syntax of a DBI data source.
+
- Set DATASOURCE to your DBI data source, for example, DBI:Pg:host=localhost;dbname=freeside for PostgresSQL or DBI:mysql:freeside for MySQL. See the DBI manpage and the manpage for your DBD for the exact syntax of your DBI data source.
- Set DB_PASSWORD to the freeside database user's password.
Add the freeside database to your database engine:
@@ -175,12 +175,19 @@ $ freeside-adduser -c -h /usr/local/
$ freeside-adduser -h /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd username
(using other auth types, add each user to your Apache authentication and then run: freeside-adduser username
- As the freeside UNIX user, run bin/fs-setup username to create the database tables, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
+ As the freeside UNIX user, run bin/fs-setup username (in the untar'ed freeside directory) to create the database tables, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
$ su freeside
+$ cd /path/to/freeside-1.4.0/
$ bin/fs-setup username
- freeside-queued was installed with the Perl modules. Start it now and ensure that is run upon system startup.
+ As the freeside UNIX user, run bin/populate-msgcat username (in the untar'ed freeside directory) to populate the message catalog, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
+
+$ su freeside
+$ cd /path/to/freeside-1.4.0/
+$ bin/populate-msgcat username
+
+ freeside-queued was installed with the Perl modules. Start it now and ensure that is run upon system startup (Do this manually, or edit the top-level Makefile, replacing INIT_FILE with the appropriate location on your system, and run make install-init)
Now proceed to the initial administration of your installation.