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1 <head>
2   <title>Installation</title>
3 </head>
4 <body>
5 <h1>Installation</h1>
6 Before installing, you need:
7 <ul>
8   <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/">Perl</a>  Don't enable experimental features like threads or the PerlIO abstraction layer.
9   <li><a href="http://www.apache.org">Apache</a> (<a href="http://www.modssl.org/">mod_ssl</a> or <a href="http://www.apache-ssl.org">Apache-SSL</a> highly recommended)
10   <li><a href="http://perl.apache.org/">mod_perl</a> (if compiling your own mod_perl, make sure you set the <a href="http://perl.apache.org/guide/install.html#EVERYTHING">EVERYTHING</a>=1 compile-time option)
11   <li><a href="http://www.openssh.com/">SSH</a> (<a href="http://www.openssh.com//">OpenSSH</a> is recommended.  SSH Communications Security <a href="http://www.ssh.com/products/ssh/download.cfm">commercial SSH version 3</a> has been reported incompatible with Freeside.)
12   <li><a href="http://rsync.samba.org/">rsync</a>
13   <li>A <b>transactional</b> database engine supported by Perl's <a href="http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/">DBI</a>.
14     <ul>
15       <li><a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> (v7 or higher) is recommended.
16       <li><b>MySQL does not work at this time.</b>
17         <i>The following information is provided for developers who wish to contribute MySQL support:</i> See ticket <a href="http://pouncequick.420.am/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=300">#300</a> in the bug-tracking system.
18       <!-- <li>MySQL has been reported to work.  -->
19         <b>MySQL's default <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/y/MyISAM.html">MyISAM</a> and <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/S/ISAM.html">ISAM</a> table types are not supported</b>.  If you really want to use MySQL, you need to use one of the new <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/T/a/Table_types.html">transaction-safe table types</a> such as <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/D/BDB.html">BDB</a>, and set it as the default table type using the <code>--default-table-type=BDB</code> <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#Command-line_options">mysqld command-line option</a> or by setting <code>default-table-type=BDB</code> in the <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#Option_files">my.cnf option file</a>.
20     </ul>
21   <li>Perl modules (<a href="http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/CPAN.html">CPAN</a> will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
22     <ul>
23       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Array-PrintCols">Array-PrintCols</a>
24       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Term-Query">Term-Query</a> (make test broken; install manually)
25       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MIME-Base64">MIME-Base64</a>
26       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Digest-MD5">Digest-MD5</a>
27       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=URI">URI</a>
28       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Tagset">HTML-Tagset</a>
29       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Parser">HTML-Parser</a>
30       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libnet">libnet</a>
31       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Locale-Codes">Locale-Codes</a>
32       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-Whois">Net-Whois</a>
33       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libwww-perl">libwww-perl</a>
34       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Business-CreditCard">Business-CreditCard</a>
35       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Data-ShowTable">Data-ShowTable</a>
36       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MailTools">MailTools</a>
37       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=TimeDate">TimeDate</a>
38       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DateManip">DateManip</a>
39       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=File-CounterFile">File-CounterFile</a>
40       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=FreezeThaw">FreezeThaw</a>
41       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=String-Approx">String-Approx</a>
42       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Text-Template">Text-Template</a>
43       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBI">DBI</a>
44       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=DBD">DBD for your database engine</a> (<a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBD-Pg">DBD::Pg</a> for PostgreSQL, <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBD-mysql">DBD::mysql</a> for MySQL)
45       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBIx-DataSource">DBIx-DataSource</a>
46       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBIx-DBSchema">DBIx-DBSchema</a>
47       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-SSH">Net-SSH</a>
48       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=String-ShellQuote">String-ShellQuote</a>
49       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-SCP">Net-SCP</a>
50       <li><a href="http://www.apache-asp.org/">Apache::ASP</a> or <a href="http://www.masonhq.com/">HTML::Mason</a>
51       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Tie-IxHash">Tie-IxHash</a>
52       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Time-Duration">Time-Duration</a>
53       <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Widgets-SelectLayers">HTML-Widgets-SelectLayers</a>
54     </ul>
55 </ul>
56 Install the Freeside distribution:
57 <ul>
58   <li>Add the user `freeside' to your system.
59   <li>Allow the freeside user full access to the freeside database.
60     <ul>
61       <li> with <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/user-manag.html#DATABASE-USERS">PostgreSQL</a>:
62         <pre>
63 $ su postgres
64 $ createuser -P freeside
65 Enter password for user "freeside": 
66 Enter it again: 
67 Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
68 Shall the new user be allowed to create more new users? (y/n) n
69 CREATE USER</pre>
70       <li> with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#User_Account_Management">MySQL</a>:
71         <pre>
72 $ mysqladmin -u root password '<i>set_a_root_database_password</i>'
73 $ mysql -u root -p
74 mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,INDEX,ALTER,CREATE,DROP on freeside.* TO freeside@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '<i>set_a_freeside_database_password</i>';</pre>
75     </ul>
76 <!--  <li>Unpack the tarball: <pre>gunzip -c fs-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xvf -</pre>-->
77   <li>Edit the top-level Makefile:
78     <ul>
79       <li>Set <tt>DATASOURCE</tt> to your <a href="http://search.cpan.org/doc/TIMB/DBI-1.20/DBI.pm">DBI data source</a>, for example, <tt>DBI:Pg:host=localhost;dbname=freeside</tt> for PostgresSQL or <tt>DBI:mysql:freeside</tt> for MySQL.  See the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/doc/TIMB/DBI-1.20/DBI.pm">DBI manpage</a> and the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=DBD">manpage for your DBD</a> for the exact syntax of a DBI data source.
80       <li>Set <tt>DB_PASSWORD</tt> to the freeside database user's password.
81     </ul>
82   <li>Add the freeside database to your database engine:
83     <pre>
84 $ su
85 # make create-database</pre>
86     (or manually, with Postgres:)
87     <pre>
88 $ su freeside
89 $ createdb freeside</pre>
90     (with MySQL:)
91     <pre>
92 $ mysqladmin -u freeside -p create freeside </pre>
93   <li>Build and install the Perl modules:
94     <pre>
95 $ make perl-modules
96 $ su
97 # make install-perl-modules</pre>
98     <li>Create the necessary configuration files:<pre>
99 $ su
100 # make create-config
101 </pre>
102     <li>Run a <b>separate</b> iteration of Apache[-SSL] with mod_perl enabled <b>as the freeside user</b>.
103 </ul>
104 <table>
105   <tr>
106     <th>Apache::ASP</th><th>Mason</th>
107   </tr>
108   <tr>
109     <td><ul>
110       <li>Run <tt>make aspdocs</tt>
111       <li>Copy <tt>aspdocs/</tt> to your web server's document space.
112       <li>Create a <a href="http://www.apache-asp.org/config.html#Global">Global</a> directory, such as <tt>/usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/</tt>:
113 <font size="-1"><pre>
114 mkdir&nbsp;/usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
115 chown&nbsp;freeside&nbsp;/usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
116 </pre></font>
117       <li>Copy <tt>htetc/global.asa</tt> to the Global directory:
118 <font size="-1"><pre>
119 cp&nbsp;htetc/global.asa&nbsp;/usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/global.asa
120 </pre></font>
121       <li>Configure Apache for the Global directory and to execute .cgi files using Apache::ASP.  For example:
122 <font size="-1"><pre>
123 &lt;Directory&nbsp;/usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp&gt;
124 &lt;Files ~ (\.cgi)&gt;
125 AddHandler perl-script .cgi
126 PerlHandler Apache::ASP
127 &lt;/Files&gt;
128 &lt;Perl&gt;
129 $MLDBM::RemoveTaint = 1;
130 &lt;/Perl&gt;
131 PerlSetVar&nbsp;Global&nbsp;/usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
132 PerlSetVar Debug 2
133 &lt;/Directory&gt;
134 </pre></font>
135     </ul></td>
136     <td><ul>
137       <li>Run <tt>make masondocs</tt>
138       <li>Copy <tt>masondocs/</tt> to your web server's document space.
139       <li>Copy <tt>htetc/handler.pl</tt> to your web server's configuration directory.
140       <li>Edit <tt>handler.pl</tt> and set an appropriate <tt>data_dir</tt>, such as <tt>/usr/local/etc/freeside/mason-data</tt>
141       <li>Configure Apache to use the <tt>handler.pl</tt> file and to execute .cgi files using HTML::Mason.  For example:
142 <font size="-1"><pre>
143 &lt;Directory&nbsp;/usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason&gt;
144 &lt;Files ~ (\.cgi)&gt;
145 AddHandler perl-script .cgi
146 PerlHandler HTML::Mason
147 &lt;/Files&gt;
148 &lt;Perl&gt;
149 require&nbsp;"/usr/local/apache/conf/handler.pl";
150 &lt;/Perl&gt;
151 &lt;/Directory&gt;
152 </pre></font>
153     </ul></td>
154   </tr>
155 </table>
156 <ul>
157 <li>Restrict access to this web interface - see the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#user-authentication">Apache documentation on user authentication</a>.    For example, to configure user authentication with <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_auth.html">mod_auth</a> (flat files):
158 <pre>
159 &lt;Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp&gt;
160 PerlSetVar Global /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
161 AuthName Freeside
162 AuthType Basic
163 AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd
164 require valid-user
165 &lt;/Directory&gt;
166 </pre>
167   <li>Create one or more Freeside users (your internal sales/tech folks, not customer accounts).  These users are setup using using Apache authentication, not UNIX user accounts.  For example, using <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_auth.html">mod_auth</a> (flat files):
168     <ul>
169       <li>First user:<font size="-1">
170 <pre>$ su
171 $ <a href="man/bin/freeside-adduser.html">freeside-adduser</a> -c -h /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd <i>username</i></pre></font>
172       <li>Additional users:<font size="-1">
173 <pre>$ su
174 $ <a href="man/bin/freeside-adduser.html">freeside-adduser</a> -h /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd <i>username</i></pre></font>
175     </ul>
176   <i>(using other auth types, add each user to your <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#user-authentication">Apache authentication</a> and then run: <tt>freeside-adduser <b>username</b></tt></i>
177   <li>As the freeside UNIX user, run <tt>bin/fs-setup <b>username</b></tt> to create the database tables, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
178 <pre>
179 $ su freeside
180 $ bin/fs-setup <b>username</b>
181 </pre>
182   <li><tt>freeside-queued</tt> was installed with the Perl modules.  Start it now and ensure that is run upon system startup.
183   <li>Now proceed to the initial <a href="admin.html">administration</a> of your installation.
184 </ul>
185 </body>