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3: <TITLE>LON-CAPA Installation</TITLE>
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6: <H1>LON-CAPA Installation</H1>
7: <H3>Current Installation Procedure</H3>
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1.4 harris41 9: Scott Harrison
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1.5 ! harris41 12: Last updated: 11/01/2000
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1.1 harris41 15: This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have
1.3 harris41 16: been tested.
1.1 harris41 17: <OL>
18: <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by
19: <UL>
20: <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD
1.2 harris41 21: <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD
22: <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource">
1.1 harris41 23: RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>. You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image;
1.2 harris41 24: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img">
1.1 harris41 25: bootnet-20000407.img</A>. (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a
26: command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>). For installation, you
27: need to specify <TT>http://www.lon-capa.org</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/install/3.1/currentcdsource</TT>
28: as the source location.
29: </UL>
30: <LI>Install RedHat 6.2
31: <UL>
32: <LI><B>Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages</B>
33: <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B>
34: </UL>
35: <LI>After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from
1.2 harris41 36: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS/">
37: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS</A>.
1.1 harris41 38: <UL>
39: <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>.
40: </UL>
41: <LI>Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script
1.2 harris41 42: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh">
43: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh</A> as root.
1.3 harris41 44: <LI>After installing the supplemental RPMS, install a final RPM set by downloading all files from
45: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS/">
46: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS</A>.
47: <UL>
48: <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>.
49: </UL>
1.1 harris41 50: <LI>Configure needed files.
51: <UL>
52: <LI>Currently, reconfiguration must be handled manually and involves an administrator
53: altering configuration files present throughout the system. For a list of these
1.3 harris41 54: files and their descriptions, visit <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html">
55: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html</A>.
1.5 ! harris41 56: </UL>
1.1 harris41 57: <LI>Important files are /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf,
58: /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab, /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab (if setting up a cluster different
1.3 harris41 59: than MSU's).
1.5 ! harris41 60: <LI>Unshadow passwords
! 61: <UL>
! 62: <PRE>You can do this by these 5 steps:
! 63: 1. enter the system command, as "root", pwunconv
! 64: 2. enter the system command, as "root", grpunconv
! 65: 3. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/login file on your system
! 66: #%PAM-1.0
! 67: auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
! 68: auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
! 69: auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
! 70: account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
! 71: password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
! 72: password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so nullok use_authtok
! 73: session required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
! 74: session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so
! 75: 4. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/passwd file on your system
! 76: #%PAM-1.0
! 77: auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
! 78: account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
! 79: password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
! 80: password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok
! 81: 5. Set/reset passwords. As "root" use 'passwd', and 'passwd www'
! 82: to change the important passwords. This creates crypt-processible
! 83: passwords in /etc/passwd.
! 84: </PRE>
! 85: </UL>
! 86: <LI>Run, as root, <TT>ln -s /etc/mime.types /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types</TT>
! 87: <LI>Run, as root, <TT>/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start</TT>.
1.3 harris41 88: <LI>Run, as root, <TT>/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start</TT>.
1.1 harris41 89: <LI>After 10 minutes, you should be able to check the file <TT>/home/httpd/html/lon-status/index.html</TT>
90: to see if your machine has been successfully set up.
91: </UL>
92: </OL>
93: </P>
94: <H3>Future Installation Procedure (not yet implemented)</H3>
95: <P>
96: In the future, LON-CAPA Installation will be distributed on a CD complete with a
97: customized interface. Many elements for doing this have been coded, and are in place, but
98: it awaits completion.
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