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 <H1>LON-CAPA Installation</H1>  <H1>LON-CAPA Installation</H1>
 <H3>Current Installation Procedure</H3>  <H3>Current Installation Procedure</H3>
 <P>  <P>
   Scott Harrison
   </P>
   <P>
   Last updated: 11/21/2000
   </P>
   <P>
 This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation.  These steps have  This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation.  These steps have
 been tested (almost, I'm going to do this today).  been tested.
 <OL>  <OL>
 <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by  <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by
 <UL>  <UL>
 <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD  <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD
 <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://www.lon-capa.org/install/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD  <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD
 <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://www.lon-capa.org/install/3.1/currentcdsource">  <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource">
 RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>.  You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image;  RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>.  You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image;
 <A HREF="http://www.lon-capa.org/install/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img">  <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img">
 bootnet-20000407.img</A>.  (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a  bootnet-20000407.img</A>.  (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a
 command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>).  For installation, you  command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>).  For installation, you
 need to specify <TT>http://www.lon-capa.org</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/install/3.1/currentcdsource</TT>  need to specify <TT>hobbes.lite.msu.edu/~loninst</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/3.1/currentcdsource</TT>
   as the source location.
   </UL>
   <LI>Install RedHat 6.2
   <UL>
   <LI><B>Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages</B>
   <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B>
   </UL>
   <LI>After installation, restart the computer.  Login as root.  Enter these two commands:
   <OL>
   <LI><TT>lynx -source http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/postinstall.pl&gt;postinstall.pl</TT>
   <LI><TT>perl postinstall.pl</TT>
   </OL>
   <LI>As postinstall.pl runs, you will be asked various questions.  Follow the instructions to correctly
   enter in the appropriate parameter values.
   </OL>
   <HR>
   <H1>Old steps; do not use these...</H1>
   Last updated: 11/01/2000
   </P>
   <P>
   This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation.  These steps have
   been tested.
   <OL>
   <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by
   <UL>
   <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD
   <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD
   <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource">
   RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>.  You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image;
   <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img">
   bootnet-20000407.img</A>.  (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a
   command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>).  For installation, you
   need to specify <TT>hobbes.lite.msu.edu/~loninst</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/3.1/currentcdsource</TT>
 as the source location.  as the source location.
 </UL>  </UL>
 <LI>Install RedHat 6.2  <LI>Install RedHat 6.2
Line 27  as the source location. Line 66  as the source location.
 <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B>  <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B>
 </UL>  </UL>
 <LI>After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from  <LI>After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from
 <A HREF="http://www.lon-capa.org/install/3.1/SupplementalRPMS/">  <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS/">
 http://www.lon-capa.org/install/3.1/SupplementalRPMS</A>.  http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS</A>.
 <UL>  <UL>
 <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>.  <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>.
 </UL>  </UL>
 <LI>Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script   <LI>Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script 
 <A HREF="http://www.lon-capa.org/install/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh">  <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh">
 http://www.lon-capa.org/install/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh</A> as root.  http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh</A> as root.
   <LI>After installing the supplemental RPMS, install a final RPM set by downloading all files from
   <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS/">
   http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS</A>.
   <UL>
   <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>.
   </UL>
 <LI>Configure needed files.  <LI>Configure needed files.
 <UL>  <UL>
 <LI>Currently, reconfiguration must be handled manually and involves an administrator  <LI>Currently, reconfiguration must be handled manually and involves an administrator
 altering configuration files present throughout the system.  For a list of these  altering configuration files present throughout the system.  For a list of these
 files and their descriptions, visit <A HREF="http://www.lon-capa.org/install/3.1/loncapafiles.html">  files and their descriptions, visit <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html">
 http://www.lon-capa.org/install/3.1/loncapafiles.html</A>.  http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html</A>.
   </UL>
 <LI>Important files are /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf,    <LI>Important files are /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf,  
 /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab, /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab (if setting up a cluster different  /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab, /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab (if setting up a cluster different
 than MSU's)  than MSU's).
 <LI>Run <B>AS USER=www (NEVER EVER EVER EVER AS USER=root)</B> <TT>/home/httpd/perl/loncron &</TT>.  <LI>Unshadow passwords
   <UL>
   <PRE>You can do this by these 5 steps:
   1. enter the system command, as "root", pwunconv
   2. enter the system command, as "root", grpunconv
   3. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/login file on your system
   #%PAM-1.0
   auth       required     /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
   auth       required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
   auth       required     /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
   account    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
   password   required     /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
   password   required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so nullok use_authtok
   session    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
   session    optional     /lib/security/pam_console.so
   4. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/passwd file on your system
   #%PAM-1.0
   auth       required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
   account    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
   password   required     /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
   password   required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok
   5. Set/reset passwords.  As "root" use 'passwd', and 'passwd www'
   to change the important passwords.  This creates crypt-processible
   passwords in /etc/passwd.
   </PRE>
   </UL>
   <LI>Run, as root, <TT>ln -s /etc/mime.types /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types</TT>
   <LI>Run, as root, <TT>/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start</TT>.
   <LI>Run, as root, <TT>/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start</TT>.
 <LI>After 10 minutes, you should be able to check the file <TT>/home/httpd/html/lon-status/index.html</TT>  <LI>After 10 minutes, you should be able to check the file <TT>/home/httpd/html/lon-status/index.html</TT>
 to see if your machine has been successfully set up.  to see if your machine has been successfully set up.
 </UL>  </UL>
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