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@@ -12,17 +12,18 @@ Before installing, you need:
rsync
A transactional database engine supported by Perl's DBI.
- - PostgreSQL (v7 or higher) is recommended.
-
- MySQL has been reported to work.
- MySQL's default MyISAM and ISAM table types are not supported. If you want to use MySQL, you must use one of the new transaction-safe table types such as BDB or InnoDB, and set it as the default table type when running fs-setup using the
--default-table-type=BDB
or --default-table-type=InnoDB
mysqld command-line option or by setting default-table-type=BDB
or --default-table-type=InnoDB
in the my.cnf option file.
+ - PostgreSQL is recommended (v7.1.x or later, not 7.0.x).
+
- MySQL versions before 4.1 do not support standard SQL subqueries and are NOT SUPPORTED. If you are a developer who wishes to contribute MySQL 3.x/4.0 support, see ticket #438 in the bug-tracking system and ask on the -devel mailing list.
+
Perl modules (CPAN will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
@@ -61,23 +64,24 @@ Install the Freeside distribution:
Edit the top-level Makefile:
- - Set DATASOURCE to your DBI data source, for example, DBI:Pg:host=localhost;dbname=freeside for PostgresSQL or DBI:mysql:freeside for MySQL. See the DBI manpage and the manpage for your DBD for the exact syntax of your DBI data source.
+
- Set DATASOURCE to your DBI data source, for example, DBI:Pg:dbname=freeside for PostgresSQL. See the DBI manpage and the manpage for your DBD for the exact syntax of your DBI data source.
- Set DB_PASSWORD to the freeside database user's password.
Add the freeside database to your database engine:
@@ -88,9 +92,10 @@ $ su
$ su freeside
$ createdb freeside
- (with MySQL:)
+
Build and install the Perl modules:
$ make perl-modules
@@ -135,6 +140,7 @@ PerlSetVar Debug 2
+ - (use version 1.0x - Freeside is not yet compatible with version 1.1x)
- Run make masondocs
- Copy masondocs/ to your web server's document space.
- Copy htetc/handler.pl to your web server's configuration directory.
@@ -158,7 +164,6 @@ require "/usr/local/apache/conf/handler.pl";
- Restrict access to this web interface - see the Apache documentation on user authentication. For example, to configure user authentication with mod_auth (flat files):
<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp>
-PerlSetVar Global /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/
AuthName Freeside
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd
@@ -175,16 +180,16 @@ $ freeside-adduser -c -h /usr/local/
$ freeside-adduser -h /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd username
(using other auth types, add each user to your Apache authentication and then run: freeside-adduser username
- As the freeside UNIX user, run bin/fs-setup username (in the untar'ed freeside directory) to create the database tables, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
+ As the freeside UNIX user, run freeside-setup username to create the database tables, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
$ su freeside
-$ cd /path/to/freeside-1.4.0/
-$ bin/fs-setup username
+$ freeside-setup username
+ Alternately, use the -s option to enable shipping addresses: freeside-setup -s username
As the freeside UNIX user, run bin/populate-msgcat username (in the untar'ed freeside directory) to populate the message catalog, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
$ su freeside
-$ cd /path/to/freeside-1.4.0/
+$ cd /path/to/freeside/
$ bin/populate-msgcat username
freeside-queued was installed with the Perl modules. Start it now and ensure that is run upon system startup (Do this manually, or edit the top-level Makefile, replacing INIT_FILE with the appropriate location on your systemand QUEUED_USER with the username of a Freeside user you created above, and run make install-init)
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