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5: <title>LON-CAPA Installation</title>
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13: You will need to check all the following things to ensure proper
14: installation of your LON-CAPA system.
15: <ul>
1.13 harris41 16: <li><a href="#wwwuser">
17: Creating a user 'www'</a></li>
18: <li><a href="#shadow">
1.12 harris41 19: Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords</a></li>
1.13 harris41 20: <li><a href="#install">
21: Installing LON-CAPA files</a></li>
22: <li><a href="#checkrpms">
23: Checking your Linux RPMs</a></li>
24: <li><a href="#mysql">
25: Configuring the MySQL database</a></li>
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1.13 harris41 30: <a name="wwwuser" />
31: <h3>Creating a user 'www'</h3>
32: <p>
1.14 ! harris41 33: Execute the following command to create a user named 'www' on your
! 34: LON-CAPA server:
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! 37: <tt>/usr/sbin/useradd www</tt>
! 38: </td></tr></table>
1.13 harris41 39: <a name="shadow" />
1.12 harris41 40: <h3>Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords</h3>
41: <p>
1.14 ! harris41 42: <table border="1">
1.12 harris41 43: <tr><th>Step #</th><th>Description</th></tr>
44: <tr><td>
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47: <p>Is your system using shadow passwords? (Note: LON-CAPA will
48: work with either MD5/non-MD5 configured systems). If your
49: system is not using shadow passwords, then do not perform
50: any of the additional steps. If your system is using shadow
51: passwords, then you will need to perform the additional steps below.
52: </p>
53: <p>
54: <strong>How to detect:</strong>
55: <br />command: <tt>cat /etc/passwd | grep ':x:'</tt>
56: </p>
57: <p>If there is output such as "<tt>root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash</tt>",
58: then your system is using shadow passwords and you will need to continue with
59: the steps below.
60: </p>
61: </td></tr>
62: <tr><td>
63: <font size='+1'>2</font>
64: </td><td>
65: <p><strong>Retrieve the mod_auth_external source</strong> by
66: running the following command
67: </p>
68: <p><tt>
69: wget http://www.wwnet.net/~janc/software/mod_auth_external-2.1.13.tar.gz
70: </tt>
71: </p>
72: </td></tr>
1.13 harris41 73: <tr><td>
74: <font size='+1'>3</font>
75: </td><td>
76: <p><strong>More steps...</strong>
77: </p>
78: <p><tt>
79: There are more steps to include here.
80: </tt>
81: </p>
82: </td></tr>
83: </table>
84: </p>
85: <a name="install" />
86: <h3>Installing LON-CAPA files</h3>
87: <p>
88: Download the most current
89: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/current/loncapa.tar.gz">
90: loncapa.tar.gz</a>.
91: </p>
1.14 ! harris41 92: <p>
! 93: The <strong>UPDATE</strong> command will refresh your filesystem with all
! 94: the latest LON-CAPA software.
! 95: </p>
! 96: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
! 97: <tr><td><tt>./UPDATE</tt></td></tr>
! 98: </table>
1.13 harris41 99: <a name="checkrpms" />
100: <h3>Checking your Linux RPMs</h3>
101: <p>
1.14 ! harris41 102: The <strong>CHECKRPMS</strong> command will check the RPMs on your machine
! 103: against an FTP repository.
1.13 harris41 104: </p>
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1.13 harris41 106: <tr><td><tt>./CHECKRPMS</tt></td></tr>
1.12 harris41 107: </table>
1.13 harris41 108: <a name="mysql" />
109: <h3>Configuring the MySQL database</h3>
110: <p>
111: The following commands describe how to configure the MySQL database
112: on your LON-CAPA server.
1.12 harris41 113: </p>
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1.13 harris41 115: <pre>
116: Enter the mysql shell---
117: mysql -u root -p mysql
118:
119: Run these commands---
120: CREATE DATABASE loncapa;
121:
122: INSERT INTO user (Host, User, Password)
123: VALUES ('localhost','www',password('SOMEPASSWORD'));
124:
125: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO www@localhost;
126:
127: FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
128:
129: shell> mysql -u root mysql
130: mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost=PASSWORD('new_password');
131: </pre>
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