<li><a href="http://www.perl.com/">Perl</a> Don't enable experimental features like threads or the PerlIO abstraction layer.
<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> is recommended.
+ <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>.
</ul>
<li>Perl modules (<a href="http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/CPAN.html">CPAN</a> will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MailTools">MailTools</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=TimeDate">TimeDate</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DateManip">DateManip</a>
+ <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Time-Duration">Time-Duration</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=File-CounterFile">File-CounterFile</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=FreezeThaw">FreezeThaw</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=String-Approx">String-Approx</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Text-Template">Text-Template</a>
+ <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Archive-Tar">Archive-Tar</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBI">DBI</a>
- <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=DBD">DBD for your database engine</a>
+ <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)
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBIx-DataSource">DBIx-DataSource</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBIx-DBSchema">DBIx-DBSchema</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-SSH">Net-SSH</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=String-ShellQuote">String-ShellQuote</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-SCP">Net-SCP</a>
<li><a href="http://www.apache-asp.org/">Apache::ASP</a> or <a href="http://www.masonhq.com/">HTML::Mason</a>
+ <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Tie-IxHash">Tie-IxHash</a>
+ <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Time-Duration">Time-Duration</a>
</ul>
</ul>
Install the Freeside distribution:
<ul>
<li> with <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/user-manag.html#DATABASE-USERS">PostgreSQL</a>:
<pre>
-$ su freeside
+$ su postgres
$ createuser -P freeside</pre>
<li> with <a href="http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Database_Administration.html#User_Account_Management">MySQL</a>:
<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.
- <li>Set <tt>DB_ADMIN_PASSWORD</tt> to the freeside database user's password.
+ <li>Set <tt>DB_PASSWORD</tt> to the freeside database user's password.
</ul>
<li>Add the freeside database to your database engine:
<pre>
$ su
# make create-database</pre>
+ (or manually, with Postgres:)
+ <pre>
+$ su freeside
+$ createdb freeside</pre>
+ (with MySQL:)
+ <pre>
+$ mysqladmin -u freeside -p create freeside </pre>
<li>Build and install the Perl modules:
<pre>
$ make perl-modules
$MLDBM::RemoveTaint = 1;
</Perl>
PerlSetVar Global /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
+PerlSetVar Debug 2
</Directory>
</pre></font>
</ul></td>
<td><ul>
- <li>NOTE: Mason support is still a bit buggy in the 1.4.0 prereleases. This will be fixed before 1.4.0. You have been warned.
<li>Run <tt>make masondocs</tt>
<li>Copy <tt>masondocs/</tt> to your web server's document space.
<li>Copy <tt>htetc/handler.pl</tt> to your web server's configuration directory.
<ul>
<li>First user:<font size="-1">
<pre>$ su
-$ freeside-adduser -c -h /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd <i>username</i></pre></font>
+$ <a href="man/bin/freeside-adduser.html">freeside-adduser</a> -c -h /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd <i>username</i></pre></font>
<li>Additional users:<font size="-1">
<pre>$ su
-$ freeside-adduser -h /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd <i>username</i></pre></font>
+$ <a href="man/bin/freeside-adduser.html">freeside-adduser</a> -h /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd <i>username</i></pre></font>
</ul>
<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>
<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:
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