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diff --git a/httemplate/docs/install.html b/httemplate/docs/install.html
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--- a/httemplate/docs/install.html
+++ b/httemplate/docs/install.html
@@ -10,20 +10,20 @@ 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.
+ - PostgreSQL is recommended (v7.1.x or later, not 7.0.x).
+
- 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.
+
Perl modules (CPAN will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
Install the Freeside distribution:
- - Add the user `freeside' to your system.
+
- Add the user and group `freeside' to your system.
- Allow the freeside user full access to the freeside database.
- with PostgreSQL:
@@ -66,16 +70,17 @@ 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
-
- with MySQL:
+
- 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. 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:
@@ -86,9 +91,10 @@ $ su
$ su freeside
$ createdb freeside
- (with MySQL:)
+
- Build and install the Perl modules:
$ make perl-modules
@@ -133,6 +139,7 @@ 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.
@@ -173,12 +180,19 @@ $ 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/
$ 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 systemand QUEUED_USER with the username of a Freeside user you created above, and run make install-init)
Now proceed to the initial administration of your installation.
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