I should also say that this version seems much easier to install than the last time I did it. I already had AOLserver and postgresql installed. So, maybe I should point out that a lot of the install instructions are not exactly necessary for the postgres version. The main tasks were to:
- Create the user/database (while postgres):
$ createuser openacs
$ createdb -T template1 -O openacs -U openacs -E UNICODE openacs
Where openacs is the name of the user and the database. It isn't necessary to have a system user named openacs, although there could be security benefits. I'm not sure the longer install method realizes these benefits. If a goal is simple installation, maybe the system user stuff could be an optional step?
- Recompile the nspostgres db driver with ACS=1
$ cd aolserver/nspostgres
$ make clean
$ make ACS=1
$ make install
- Add a new virtual server, which required a new nssock and binding entry, new database pools using the openacs user and db name, then I had to point the private tcl library to /web/openacs-5.2.3/tcl and the pageroot to /web/openacs-5.2.3/www. The entire startup, with configuration is here:
http://junom.com/document/openacs/server-log/
Restart AOLserver and browse to the web address.
If something goes wrong during step 4, then as postgres do:
$ dropdb openacs
- And then repeat steps 1 and 4.
