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 <h1>LON-CAPA Reconfiguration</h1>  <!-- preamble start -->
 <p>Scott Harrison</p>  <p>
 <p>Last updated: $Date$; Revision: $Revision</p>  There are about a dozen files on the LON-CAPA server systems
 <h3>Configuration files and examples</h3>  which the system administrator may need to adjust.
 LON-CAPA currently depends on the following list of configuration  </p>
 files.  Locations of these files are by default.  Depending on your  <p>
 Linux distribution (RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, etc.), the file paths  The two most important configuration files are:
   </p>
   <ul>
   <li><strong>loncapa.conf</strong> -
   typically located in the directory <tt>/etc/httpd/conf/</tt>;
   <br /><i>contains machine-specific and institution-specific
   variables and modifications necessary for
   the effective running of the Apache web server;
   note that there is also a <strong>loncapa_apache.conf</strong>
   which should be installed, but not modified</i>
   <br />&nbsp;
   </li>
   <li><strong>hosts.tab</strong> -
   typically located in the directory <tt>/home/httpd/lonTabs/</tt>;
   <br /><i>is a listing of all other internet machines that a server
   system considers to be valid server systems on the LON-CAPA
   network</i>
   <br />&nbsp;
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   <h3>Current Reconfiguration Procedure</h3>
   <p>
   After making any configuration change, you will need to restart system
   services.  The two most important system services on a LON-CAPA system are
   <strong>loncapa</strong> and <strong>httpd</strong>.  Here are the
   commands for restarting the system services:
   </p>
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   <tt>/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncapa restart</tt>
   <br /><tt>/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart</tt>
   </td></tr></table>
   <p>
   We recommend that a knowledgeable system administrator should
   perform any adjustments on a LON-CAPA server machine.
   Locations of these files are by default.  Depending on your
   Linux distribution--RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, etc, the file paths
 may be elsewhere.  may be elsewhere.
   </p>
   <h3>Configuration files that will have to be altered</h3>
   <p>
   LON-CAPA currently depends on the following list of configuration
   files.  Note that <tt>loncapa.conf</tt> is automatically
   altered by the installation/upgrade scripts associated with
   the tarball-distribution (see the <b>INSTALL</b> and <b>UPGRADE</b>
   sections of this web-site).  (Thus, the system administrator should
   not have to further adjust <tt>loncapa.conf</tt> from the terminal.)
   </p>
 <ul>  <ul>
 <li><a href='confexamples/krb.conf'>[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/krb.conf</li>  <li><a href="confexamples/loncapa.conf">[EXAMPLE]</a>
 <li><a href='confexamples/access.conf'>[EXAMPLE]</a>  /etc/httpd/conf/loncapa.conf</li>
 /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf</li>  <li><a href="confexamples/hosts.tab">[EXAMPLE]</a>
 <li><a href='confexamples/hosts.tab'>[EXAMPLE]</a>  
 /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab</li>  /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab</li>
 <li><a href='confexamples/spare.tab'>[EXAMPLE]</a>  <li><a href="confexamples/spare.tab">[EXAMPLE]</a>
 /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab</li>  /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab</li>
 <li><a href='confexamples/htpasswd'>[EXAMPLE]</a>  <li><a href="confexamples/krb.conf">[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/krb.conf</li>
   <li><a href="confexamples/htpasswd">[EXAMPLE]</a>
 /home/httpd/lonTabs/htpasswd</li>  /home/httpd/lonTabs/htpasswd</li>
 <li><a href='confexamples/smb.conf'>[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/smb.conf</li>  <li><a href="confexamples/ntp.conf">[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/ntp.conf</li>
 <li><a href='confexamples/ntp.conf'>[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/ntp.conf</li>  <li><a href="confexamples/step-tickers">[EXAMPLE]</a>
 <li><a href='confexamples/un_keyword.tab'>[EXAMPLE]</a>  
 /home/httpd/html/res/adm/includes/un_keyword.tab</li>  
 <li><a href='confexamples/copyright.tab'>[EXAMPLE]</a>  
 /home/httpd/html/res/adm/includes/copyright.tab</li>  
 <li><a href='confexamples/language.tab'>[EXAMPLE]</a>  
 /home/httpd/lonTabs/language.tab</li>  
 <li><a href='confexamples/step-tickers'>[EXAMPLE]</a>  
 /etc/ntp/step-tickers</li>  /etc/ntp/step-tickers</li>
 <li><a href='confexamples/pwauth'>[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/pam.d/pwauth</li>  <li><a href="confexamples/pwauth">[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/pam.d/pwauth</li>
 <li><a href='confexamples/config'>[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/atalk/config</li>  
 </ul>  </ul>
 <h3>Current Reconfiguration Procedure</h3>  <h3>Configuration files that do not have to be altered</h3>
 <p>  <p>
 Currently, we recommend you handle reconfiguration manually.    The following configuration files are critical for the correct
 An administrator should alter configuration files present throughout the  performance of a LON-CAPA server machine.  Typically, these configuration
 system.  files do not need to be adjusted by the system administrator.
 </p>  
 <h3>Alternative Reconfiguration Procedure (alpha software)</h3>  
 <p>  
 LON-CAPA Reconfiguration can also be handled by a GUI tool (and text-based UI)  
 developed as an offshoot from the RedHat anaconda python-Tk system.  This tool  
 should be present on your LON-CAPA system at  
 /usr/sbin/loncapaconfig.  
 </p>  </p>
   <ul>
   <li><a href="confexamples/loncapa_apache.conf">[EXAMPLE]</a>
   /etc/httpd/conf/loncapa_apache.conf</li>
   <li><a href="confexamples/un_keyword.tab">[EXAMPLE]</a>
   /home/httpd/html/res/adm/includes/un_keyword.tab</li>
   </ul>
   
   <h3>Configuring Secondary Services</h3>
   <p>
   LON-CAPA does not provide integrated support for secondary services.
   The expectation is that knowledgeable system administrators will
   customize these secondary services for their institution.
   </p>
   <p>
   We do, however, provide example configurations of services that you
   may want to deliver with LON-CAPA (i.e. Samba and AppleChooser).
   </p>
   <ul>
   <li><a href="confexamples/smb.conf">[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/smb.conf</li>
   <li><a href="confexamples/config">[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/atalk/config</li>
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