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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.) @@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ Before installing, you need: 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)

NetAddr-IP
Chart +
Crypt::PasswdMD5
Apache::DBI (optional but recommended for better webinterface performance)

@@ -129,6 +131,7 @@ cp htetc/global.asa /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/global.asa

Configure Apache for the Global directory and to execute .cgi files using Apache::ASP. For example:

 PerlModule Apache::ASP
+# your freeside document root
 <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp>
 <Files ~ (\.cgi|\.html)>
 SetHandler perl-script
@@ -138,7 +141,10 @@ PerlHandler Apache::ASP
 $MLDBM::RemoveTaint = 1;
 </Perl>
 PerlSetVar Global /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
-PerlSetVar Debug 2
+PerlSetVar Debug 2
+PerlSetVar RequestBinaryRead Off
+# your freeside document root
+PerlSetVar IncludesDir /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp
 </Directory>