<i>Note: Install Freeside on a firewalled, private server, not a public (web, RADIUS, etc.) server.</i><br><br>
Before installing, you need:
<ul>
- <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.perl.com/">Perl</a>
<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> (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)
<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://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Parser">HTML-Parser</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libnet">libnet</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Locale-Codes">Locale-Codes</a>
- <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-Whois">Net-Whois</a>
+ <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-Whois-Raw">Net-Whois-Raw</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libwww-perl">libwww-perl</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Business-CreditCard">Business-CreditCard</a>
<!-- <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Data-ShowTable">Data-ShowTable</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://www.masonhq.com/">HTML::Mason</a> (recommended, enables full functionality) or <a href="http://www.apache-asp.org/">Apache::ASP</a> (deprecated, integrated RT ticketing will not be available)
<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>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Widgets-SelectLayers">HTML-Widgets-SelectLayers</a>
<!-- MyAccounts, maybe only for dev <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Cache-Cache">Cache::Cache</a> -->
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=NetAddr-IP">NetAddr-IP</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Chart">Chart</a>
+ <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Crypt-PasswdMD5">Crypt::PasswdMD5</a>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=ApacheDBI">Apache::DBI</a> <i>(optional but recommended for better webinterface performance)</i>
</ul>
</ul>
# make create-config
</pre>
<li>Run a <b>separate</b> iteration of Apache[-SSL] with mod_perl enabled <b>as the freeside user</b>.
+ <li>Edit the <tt>Makefile</tt> and set <tt>TEMPLATE</tt> to <tt>asp</tt> or <tt>mason</tt>. Also set <tt>FREESIDE_DOCUMENT_ROOT</tt>.
+ <li>Run <tt> make install-docs</tt>.
</ul>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Apache::ASP</th><th>Mason</th>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td><ul>
- <li>Run <tt>make aspdocs</tt>
- <li>Copy <tt>aspdocs/</tt> to your web server's document space:
-<font size="-1"><pre>
-cp aspdocs /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp
-</pre></font>
- <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>:
-<font size="-1"><pre>
-mkdir /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
-chown freeside /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
-</pre></font>
- <li>Copy <tt>htetc/global.asa</tt> to the Global directory:
-<font size="-1"><pre>
-cp htetc/global.asa /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/global.asa
-</pre></font>
- <li>Configure Apache for the Global directory and to execute .cgi files using Apache::ASP. For example:
+ <td valign="top"><ul>
+ <li>Configure Apache:
<font size="-1"><pre>
PerlModule Apache::ASP
-<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp>
+# your freeside document root
+<Directory /var/www/freeside>
<Files ~ (\.cgi|\.html)>
-SetHandler perl-script
+AddHandler perl-script .cgi .html
PerlHandler Apache::ASP
</Files>
<Perl>
$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 /var/www/freeside
</Directory>
</pre></font>
</ul></td>
- <td><ul>
- <li>Run <tt>make masondocs</tt>
- <li>Copy <tt>masondocs/</tt> to your web server's document space. (For example: <tt>/usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason</tt>)
- <li>Copy <tt>htetc/handler.pl</tt> to <tt>/usr/local/etc/freeside</tt>
- <li>Edit <tt>handler.pl</tt> and:
- <ul>
- <li> set an appropriate <tt>comp_root</tt>, such as <tt>/usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason</tt>
- <li> set an appropriate <tt>data_dir</tt>, such as <tt>/usr/local/etc/freeside/masondata</tt>
- </ul>
-
- <li>Configure Apache to use the <tt>handler.pl</tt> file and to execute .cgi files using HTML::Mason. For example:
+ <td valign="top"><ul>
+ <li>Configure Apache:
<font size="-1"><pre>
PerlModule HTML::Mason
-<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason>
-<Files ~ (\.cgi|.html)>
-SetHandler perl-script
+# your freeside docuemnt root
+<Directory /var/www/freeside>
+<Files ~ (\.cgi|\.html)>
+AddHandler perl-script .cgi .html
PerlHandler HTML::Mason
</Files>
<Perl>
</tr>
</table>
<ul>
-<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):
+<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), add something like the following to your Apache httpd.conf file, adjusting for your actual paths:
<pre>
-<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp>
+#your freeside document root
+<Directory /var/www/freeside>
AuthName Freeside
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd
<pre>$ su
$ <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>
+ <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>freeside-setup <b>username</b></tt> to create the database tables, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
<pre>
$ su freeside
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