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Installation

+Note: Install Freeside on a firewalled, private server, not a public (web, RADIUS, etc.) server.

Before installing, you need:

Perl Don't enable experimental features like threads or the PerlIO abstraction layer. +
Perl
Apache (mod_ssl or Apache-SSL highly recommended)
mod_perl (if compiling your own mod_perl, make sure you set the EVERYTHING=1 compile-time option)
SSH (OpenSSH is recommended. SSH Communications Security commercial SSH version 3 has been reported incompatible with Freeside.) @@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ Before installing, you need: 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 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.

Perl modules (CPAN will query, download and build perl modules automatically) +

Perl modules (CPAN will query, download and build perl modules automatically)

HTML-Parser
libnet
Locale-Codes -
Net-Whois +
Net-Whois-Raw
libwww-perl
Business-CreditCard @@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ Before installing, you need:
Net-SSH
String-ShellQuote
Net-SCP -
Apache::ASP or HTML::Mason +
HTML::Mason (recommended, enables full functionality) or Apache::ASP (deprecated, integrated RT ticketing will not be available)
Tie-IxHash
Time-Duration
HTML-Widgets-SelectLayers @@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ Before installing, you need:
NetAddr-IP
Chart +
Crypt::PasswdMD5
Apache::DBI (optional but recommended for better webinterface performance)

@@ -126,33 +128,42 @@ chown freeside /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/

 cp htetc/global.asa /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/global.asa

Configure Apache for the Global directory and to execute .cgi files using Apache::ASP. For example: +

Configure Apache for the Global directory and to execute .cgi files using Apache::ASP. For example, add something like the following to your Apache httpd.conf file, adjusting for your actual paths:

 PerlModule Apache::ASP
+# your freeside document root
 <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp>
-<Files ~ (\.cgi)>
-AddHandler perl-script .cgi
+<Files ~ (\.cgi|\.html)>
+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 /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp
 </Directory>

Run make masondocs -
Copy masondocs/ to your web server's document space. -
Copy htetc/handler.pl to an appropriate directory (use htetc/handler.pl-1.0x for Mason versions before 1.10). -
Edit handler.pl and set an appropriate data_dir, such as /usr/local/etc/freeside/masondata -
Configure Apache to use the handler.pl file and to execute .cgi files using HTML::Mason. For example: +
Copy masondocs/ to your web server's document space. (For example: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason) +
Copy htetc/handler.pl to /usr/local/etc/freeside +
Edit handler.pl and: +
- set an appropriate comp_root, such as /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason +
- set an appropriate data_dir, such as /usr/local/etc/freeside/masondata +
+ +

Configure Apache to use the handler.pl file and to execute .cgi files using HTML::Mason. For example, add something like the following to your Apache httpd.conf file, adjusting for your actual paths:

 PerlModule HTML::Mason
 <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-mason>
-<Files ~ (\.cgi)>
-AddHandler perl-script .cgi
+<Files ~ (\.cgi|\.html)>
+AddHandler perl-script .cgi .html
 PerlHandler HTML::Mason
 </Files>
 <Perl>
@@ -164,7 +175,7 @@ require "/usr/local/etc/freeside/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):
+
Restrict access to this web interface - see the Apache documentation on user authentication.    For example, to configure user authentication with mod_auth (flat files), add something like the following to your Apache httpd.conf file, adjusting for your actual paths:
  <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside-asp>
 AuthName Freeside