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<p>
There are about a dozen files on the LON-CAPA server systems
which the system administrator may need to adjust.
</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>;
<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;
</li>
</ul>
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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.
</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/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/domain.tab">[EXAMPLE]</a>
/home/httpd/lonTabs/domain.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/ntp.conf">[EXAMPLE]</a> /etc/ntp.conf</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>
</ul>
<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>
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>
</ul>