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  <p>
  There are about a dozen files on the LON-CAPA server systems
- which customize how each system interacts with the rest of the
+ which the system administrator may need to adjust.
- LON-CAPA network.
  </p>
  <p>
  The two most important configuration files are:
  </p>
  <ul>
  <li><strong>loncapa.conf</strong> -
- typically located in the directory <tt>/etc/httpd/conf/</tt>
+ typically located in the directory <tt>/etc/httpd/conf/</tt>;
- <br /><i>contains variables and modifications necessary for
+ <br /><i>contains machine-specific and institution-specific
- the effective running of the Apache web server</i>
+ 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>
+ 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>
- Line 35  network</i>
+ Line 37  network</i>
  </ul>
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- <h3>Configuration files and examples</h3>
+ <h3>Current Reconfiguration Procedure</h3>
  <p>
- LON-CAPA currently depends on the following list of configuration
+ After making any configuration change, you will need to restart system
- files.  Locations of these files are by default.  Depending on your
+ services.  The two most important system services on a LON-CAPA system are
- Linux distribution (RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, etc.), the file paths
+ <strong>loncapa</strong> and <strong>httpd</strong>.  Here are the
+ commands for restarting the system services:
+ </p>
+ <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"><tr><td>
+ <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.
  </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>
- <li><a href="confexamples/krb.conf">[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/krb.conf</li>
- <li><a href="confexamples/access.conf">[EXAMPLE]</a>
- /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf</li>
  <li><a href="confexamples/loncapa.conf">[EXAMPLE]</a>
  /etc/httpd/conf/loncapa.conf</li>
  <li><a href="confexamples/hosts.tab">[EXAMPLE]</a>
  /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab</li>
  <li><a href="confexamples/spare.tab">[EXAMPLE]</a>
  /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab</li>
+ <li><a href="confexamples/krb.conf">[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/krb.conf</li>
  <li><a href="confexamples/htpasswd">[EXAMPLE]</a>
  /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/un_keyword.tab">[EXAMPLE]</a>
- /home/httpd/html/res/adm/includes/un_keyword.tab</li>
  <li><a href="confexamples/step-tickers">[EXAMPLE]</a>
  /etc/ntp/step-tickers</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>
- <h3>Current Reconfiguration Procedure</h3>
+ <h3>Configuration files that do not have to be altered</h3>
+ <p>
+ The following configuration files are critical for the correct
+ performance of a LON-CAPA server machine.  Typically, these configuration
+ files do not need to be adjusted by the system administrator.
+ </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>
- We recommend that you handle the reconfiguration manually.
+ LON-CAPA does not provide integrated support for secondary services.
- A knowledgeable system administrator should alter these configuration
+ The expectation is that knowledgeable system administrators will
- files.
+ 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>
+ </ul>
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