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   2   <title>Installation</title>
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   4 <body>
   5 <h1>Installation</h1>
   6 Before installing, you need:
   7 <ul>
   8   <li>A web server, such as <a href="http://www.apache-ssl.org">Apache-SSL</a> or <a href="http://www.apache.org">Apache</a>
   9   <li><a href="ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/">SSH</a>
  10   <li>agrep from the <a href="http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu">Glimpse</a> distribution, if you want fuzzy searching capability
  11   <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPANl/doc/relinfo/INSTALL.html">Perl</a> (at least 5.004_04)
  12   <li>A database engine supported by Perl's <a href="http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/">DBI</a>, such as <a href="http://www.tcx.se/">MySQL</a> or <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a>
  13   <li>Perl modules
  14     <ul>
  15       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/MIME/">MIME-Base64</a>
  16       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Data">Data-Dumper</a>
  17       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/MD5">MD5</a>
  18       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Net">libnet</a>
  19       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/LWP/">libwww-perl</a>
  20       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/CGI/">CGI-modules</a> (<b>NOT</b> CGI.pm) with this <a href="CGI-modules-2.76-patch.txt">patch</a> applied
  21       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Business/">Business-CreditCard</a>
  22       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Data/">Data-ShowTable</a>
  23       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Mail/">MailTools</a>
  24       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Time/">TimeDate</a>
  25       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Date/">DateManip</a>
  26       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/File/">File-CounterFile</a>
  27       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/FreezeThaw/">FreezeThaw</a>
  28       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBI/">DBI
  29       <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBD/">DBD for your database engine</a>
  30     </ul>
  31 </ul>
  32 Install the Freeside distribution:
  33 <ul>
  34   <li>Add the user `freeside' to your system.
  35   <li>Add the freeside database to your database engine.  (with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Syntax.html#Create database">MySQL</a>) (with <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/admin/manage-ag.htm#AEN854">PostgreSQL</a>)
  36   <li>Allow the freeside user full access to the freeside database.  (with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Privilege_system.html#Privilege system">MySQL</a>) (with <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/admin/newuser.htm">PostgreSQL</a>)
  37   <li>Unpack the tarball: <pre>gunzip -c fs-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xvf -</pre>
  38   <li>Copy or link fs-x.y.z/site_perl to FS in your site_perl directory.  (try `<code>perl -V</code>' if unsure) <pre>mkdir /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS
  39 cp fs-x.y.z/site_perl/* /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS</pre> or <pre>ln -s /full/path/to/fs-x.y.z/site_perl /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS</pre>
  40   <li>Copy or link fs-x.y.z/htdocs to your web server's document space.  <pre>mkdir /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside
  41 cp -r fs-x.y.z/htdocs/* /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside</pre> or <pre>ln -s /full/path/to/fs-x.y.z/htdocs /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside</pre>
  42   <li>Restrict access to this web interface.  (with <a href="http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#user-authentication">Apache</a>)
  43   <li>Enable CGI execution for files with the `.cgi' extension.  (with <a href="http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler">Apache</a>)
  44   <li>Set ownership and permissions for the web interface.  Your system should support secure setuid scripts or Perl's emulation, see <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlsec.html#Security_Bugs">perlsec: Security Bugs</a> for information and workarounds.
  45 <pre>cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside
  46 chown -R freeside .
  47 chmod 4755 browse/*.cgi edit/*.cgi edit/process/*.cgi misc/*.cgi misc/process/*.cgi search/*.cgi view/*.cgi</pre>
  48 <li>Create the base Freeside directory `/var/spool/freeside', and the subdirectories `conf', `counters', and `export'.  <pre>mkdir /var/spool/freeside
  49 mkdir /var/spool/freeside/conf
  50 mkdir /var/spool/freeside/counters
  51 mkdir /var/spool/freeside/export
  52 chown -R freeside /var/spool/freeside</pre>
  53   <li>Create the necessary <a href="config.html">configuration files</a>.
  54   <li>Run bin/fs-setup to create the database tables.
  55 </ul>
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