X-Git-Url: http://git.freeside.biz/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=httemplate%2Fdocs%2Finstall.html;h=266708b1e8ef2c7bed8bcf7c2345269f1b43af46;hb=a5bc5bcbadafe55b31d9e97fccb6122477e390fb;hp=36b8ae0e7c220d849cfa55c6e79e9e11351ca617;hpb=8f6bfc01809119b3c7e90b1418650ea4a329cf49;p=freeside.git diff --git a/httemplate/docs/install.html b/httemplate/docs/install.html index 36b8ae0e7..266708b1e 100644 --- a/httemplate/docs/install.html +++ b/httemplate/docs/install.html @@ -3,9 +3,10 @@

Installation

+Note: Install Freeside on a firewalled, private server, not a public (web, RADIUS, etc.) server.

Before installing, you need:

Perl Don't enable experimental features like threads or the PerlIO abstraction layer. +
Perl
Apache (mod_ssl or Apache-SSL highly recommended)
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.) @@ -13,11 +14,11 @@ Before installing, you need:
A transactional database engine supported by Perl's DBI.
- PostgreSQL is recommended (v7or later). -
- MySQL versions before 4.1 do not support standard SQL subqueries and are NOT SUPPORTED. If you are a developer who wishes to contribute MySQL 3.x/4.0 support, see ticket #438 in the bug-tracking system and ask on the -devel mailing list. - +
- MySQL MINIMUM VERSION 4.1 is untested but may work. Versions before 4.1 do not support standard SQL subqueries and are NOT SUPPORTED. If you are a developer who wishes to contribute MySQL 3.x/4.0 support, see ticket #438 in the bug-tracking system and ask on the -devel mailing list. + + 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 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) +
Perl modules (CPAN will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
- String-Approx
- Text-Template
- DBI -
- DBD for your database engine (DBD::Pg for PostgreSQL) +
- DBD for your database engine (DBD::Pg for PostgreSQL, DBD::mysql for MySQL)
- DBIx-DataSource
- DBIx-DBSchema
- Net-SSH
- String-ShellQuote
- Net-SCP -
- Apache::ASP or HTML::Mason (use version 1.0x - Freeside is not yet compatible with version 1.1x) +
- Apache::ASP or HTML::Mason
- Tie-IxHash
- Time-Duration
- HTML-Widgets-SelectLayers
- Storable
- NetAddr-IP +
- Chart
- Apache::DBI (optional but recommended for better webinterface performance)

@@ -71,17 +73,16 @@ 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 -

Edit the top-level Makefile:

Set DATASOURCE to your DBI data source, for example, DBI:Pg:dbname=freeside for PostgresSQL. See the DBI manpage and the manpage for your DBD for the exact syntax of your DBI data source. +
Set DATASOURCE to your DBI data source, for example, DBI:Pg: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: @@ -92,10 +93,9 @@ $ su

 $ su freeside
 $ createdb freeside

Build and install the Perl modules:

 $ make perl-modules
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ cp htetc/global.asa /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/global.asa
  PerlModule Apache::ASP
 <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp>
-<Files ~ (\.cgi)>
-AddHandler perl-script .cgi
+<Files ~ (\.cgi|\.html)>
+SetHandler perl-script
 PerlHandler Apache::ASP
 </Files>
 <Perl>
@@ -144,21 +144,25 @@ PerlSetVar Debug 2
 
     
     
-      (use version 1.0x - Freeside is not yet compatible with version 1.1x)
       
Run make masondocs
-      
Copy masondocs/ to your web server's document space.
-      
Copy htetc/handler.pl to your web server's configuration directory.
-      
Edit handler.pl and set an appropriate data_dir, such as /usr/local/etc/freeside/mason-data
+      
Copy masondocs/ to your web server's document space. (For example: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason)
+      
Copy htetc/handler.pl to /usr/local/etc/freeside
+      
Edit handler.pl and:
+      
+         set an appropriate comp_root, such as /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason
+        
 set an appropriate data_dir, such as /usr/local/etc/freeside/masondata
+      
+
       
Configure Apache to use the handler.pl file and to execute .cgi files using HTML::Mason.  For example:
  PerlModule HTML::Mason
 <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason>
-<Files ~ (\.cgi)>
-AddHandler perl-script .cgi
+<Files ~ (\.cgi|.html)>
+SetHandler perl-script
 PerlHandler HTML::Mason
 </Files>
 <Perl>
-require "/usr/local/apache/conf/handler.pl";
+require "/usr/local/etc/freeside/handler.pl";
 </Perl>
 </Directory>