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 You will need to check all the following things to ensure proper  You will need to check all the following things to ensure proper
 installation of your LON-CAPA system.  installation of your LON-CAPA system.
 <ul>  <ul>
 <li><a href='#shadow'>  <li><a href="#wwwuser">
   Creating a user 'www'</a></li>
   <li><a href="#shadow">
 Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords</a></li>  Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords</a></li>
   <li><a href="#install">
   Installing LON-CAPA files</a></li>
   <li><a href="#checkrpms">
   Checking your Linux RPMs</a></li>
   <li><a href="#mysql">
   Configuring the MySQL database</a></li>
 </ul>  </ul>
 <br />&nbsp;  <br />&nbsp;
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   <h3>Creating a user 'www'</h3>
   <p>
   Execute the following command to create a user named 'www' on your
   LON-CAPA server:
   </p>
   <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"><tr><td>
   <tt>/usr/sbin/useradd www</tt>
   </td></tr></table>
   <a name="shadow" />
 <h3>Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords</h3>  <h3>Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords</h3>
 <p>  <p>
 <table border='1'>  <table border="1">
 <tr><th>Step #</th><th>Description</th></tr>  <tr><th>Step #</th><th>Description</th></tr>
 <tr><td>  <tr><td>
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 </td><td>  </td><td>
 <p>Is your system using shadow passwords? (Note: LON-CAPA will  <p>Is your system using shadow passwords? (Note: LON-CAPA will
 work with either MD5/non-MD5 configured systems).  If your  work with either MD5/non-MD5 configured systems).  If your
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 </p>  </p>
 </td></tr>  </td></tr>
   <tr><td>
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   </td><td>
   <p><strong>More steps...</strong>
   </p>
   <p><tt>
   There are more steps to include here.
   </tt>
   </p>
   </td></tr>
 </table>  </table>
 </p>  </p>
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 <h1>LON-CAPA Installation</h1>  <h3>Installing LON-CAPA files</h3>
 <h3>Current Installation Procedure</h3>  
 <p>  <p>
 Scott Harrison  Download the most current
   <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/current/loncapa.tar.gz">
   loncapa.tar.gz</a>.
 </p>  </p>
 <p>$Date$; $Revision$</p>  
 <p>  <p>
 This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation.  These  The <strong>UPDATE</strong> command will refresh your filesystem with all
 steps have been tested.</p>  the latest LON-CAPA software.
 <ol>  </p>
 <li>Get LON-CAPA on a CD by  <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
 <ul>  <tr><td><tt>./UPDATE</tt></td></tr>
 <li>Requesting a LON-CAPA installation CD (c/o Helen Keefe,   </table>
 helen@lon-capa.org).</li>  <a name="checkrpms" />
 <li>Or, downloading a LON-CAPA installation  <h3>Checking your Linux RPMs</h3>
 <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and  <p>
 burning a CD.</li>  The <strong>CHECKRPMS</strong> command will check the RPMs on your machine
 <li>(Depending on whether your computer has a bootable CD-ROM, you may  against an FTP repository.
 need to also make a boot floppy.  Download this floppy disk image file:   
 <a href=  
 "http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/boot-20000407.img">  
 boot-20000407.img</a>.  (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk;  
 and type this command: <tt>dd if=boot-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</tt>).</li>  
 </ul></li>  
 <li>Install with CD-ROM  
 <ul>  
 <li>Follow the <A HREF="instructions_with_cd.html">  
 CD-ROM installation instructions</a></li>  
 </ul></li>  
 <li>After installation, restart the computer.  Login as root.  Enter this  
 command (you only need to do this after your first reboot):  
 <ol>  
 <li><tt>sh /usr/sbin/loncapa_configure</tt></li>  
 </ol></li>  
 </ol>  
 <hr />  
 <p>  
 You can also try to install LON-CAPA on an existing installation of  
 RedHat 6.2.  Please see <a  
 href='how_to_install_loncapa_on_a_preinstalled_system.txt'>  
 how_to_install_loncapa_on_a_preinstalled_system.txt</a>.  
 </p>  </p>
   <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
   <tr><td><tt>./CHECKRPMS</tt></td></tr>
   </table>
   <a name="mysql" />
   <h3>Configuring the MySQL database</h3>
   <p>
   The following commands describe how to configure the MySQL database
   on your LON-CAPA server.
   </p>
   <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"><tr><td>
   <pre>
   Enter the mysql shell---
   mysql -u root -p mysql
   
   Run these commands---
   CREATE DATABASE loncapa;
   
   INSERT INTO user (Host, User, Password)
   VALUES ('localhost','www',password('SOMEPASSWORD'));
   
   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO www@localhost;
   
   FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
   
   shell> mysql -u root mysql
   mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost=PASSWORD('new_password');
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