<h1>Installation</h1>
Before installing, you need:
<ul>
- <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>
- <li><a href="http://perl.apache.org/">mod_perl</a>
- <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.)
<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/">Perl</a> Don't enable experimental features like threads or the PerlIO abstraction layer.
+ <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)
+ <li><a href="http://perl.apache.org/">mod_perl</a>
+ <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.)
+ <li><a href="http://rsync.samba.org/">rsync</a>
<li>A <b>transactional</b> database engine supported by Perl's <a href="http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/">DBI</a>.
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> (v7 or higher) is recommended.
- <li>MySQL has been reported to work. <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>.
+ <li><b>MySQL does not work at this time.</b>
+ <i>The following information is provided for developers who wish to contribute MySQL support:</i> See tickets <a href="http://pouncequick.420.am/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=300">#300</a> and <a href="http://pouncequick.420.am/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=334">#334</a> in the bug-tracking system.
+ <!-- <li>MySQL has been reported to work. -->
+ <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>.
</ul>
<li>Perl modules (<a href="http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/CPAN.html">CPAN</a> will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
<ul>
$ mysql -u root -p
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>
</ul>
- <li>Unpack the tarball: <pre>gunzip -c fs-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xvf -</pre>
+<!-- <li>Unpack the tarball: <pre>gunzip -c fs-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xvf -</pre>-->
<li>Edit the top-level Makefile:
<ul>
<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.
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