- I OpenACS For Everyone
- I.1 High level information: What is OpenACS?
- I.1.1 Overview
- I.1.2 OpenACS Release Notes
- I.2 OpenACS: robust web development framework
- I.2.1 Introduction
- I.2.2 Basic infrastructure
- I.2.3 Advanced infrastructure
- I.2.4 Domain level tools
- I.1 High level information: What is OpenACS?
- II Administrator's Guide
- II.2 Installation Overview
- II.2.1 Basic Steps
- II.2.2 Prerequisite Software
- II.3 Complete Installation
- II.3.1 Install a Unix-like system and supporting software
- II.3.2 Install Oracle 10g XE on debian
- II.3.2.1 Install Oracle 8.1.7
- II.3.3 Install PostgreSQL
- II.3.4 Install AOLserver 4
- II.3.5 Quick Install of OpenACS
- II.3.5.1 Complex Install OpenACS 5.3
- II.3.6 OpenACS Installation Guide for Windows2000
- II.3.7 OpenACS Installation Guide for Mac OS X
- II.4 Configuring a new OpenACS Site
- II.4.1 Installing OpenACS packages
- II.4.2 Mounting OpenACS packages
- II.4.3 Configuring an OpenACS package
- II.4.4 Setting Permissions on an OpenACS package
- II.4.5 How Do I?
- II.4.6 Configure OpenACS look and feel with templates
- II.5 Upgrading
- II.5.1 Overview
- II.5.2 Upgrading 4.5 or higher to 4.6.3
- II.5.3 Upgrading OpenACS 4.6.3 to 5.0
- II.5.4 Upgrading an OpenACS 5.0.0 or greater installation
- II.5.5 Upgrading the OpenACS files
- II.5.6 Upgrading Platform components
- II.6 Production Environments
- II.6.1 Starting and Stopping an OpenACS instance.
- II.6.2 AOLserver keepalive with inittab
- II.6.3 Running multiple services on one machine
- II.6.4 High Availability/High Performance Configurations
- II.6.5 Staged Deployment for Production Networks
- II.6.6 Installing SSL Support for an OpenACS service
- II.6.7 Set up Log Analysis Reports
- II.6.8 External uptime validation
- II.6.9 Diagnosing Performance Problems
- II.7 Database Management
- II.7.1 Running a PostgreSQL database on another server
- II.7.2 Deleting a tablespace
- II.7.3 Vacuum Postgres nightly
- II.8 Backup and Recovery
- II.8.1 Backup Strategy
- II.8.2 Manual backup and recovery
- II.8.3 Automated Backup
- II.8.4 Using CVS for backup-recovery
- II.A Install Red Hat 8/9
- II.B Install additional supporting software
- II.B.1 Unpack the OpenACS tarball
- II.B.2 Initialize CVS (OPTIONAL)
- II.B.3 Add PSGML commands to emacs init file (OPTIONAL)
- II.B.4 Install Daemontools (OPTIONAL)
- II.B.5 Install qmail (OPTIONAL)
- II.B.6 Install Analog web file analyzer
- II.B.7 Install nspam
- II.B.8 Install Full Text Search
- II.B.9 Install Full Text Search using Tsearch2
- II.B.10 Install Full Text Search using OpenFTS (deprecated see tsearch2)
- II.B.11 Install nsopenssl
- II.B.12 Install tclwebtest.
- II.B.13 Install PHP for use in AOLserver
- II.B.14 Install Squirrelmail for use as a webmail system for OpenACS
- II.B.15 Install PAM Radius for use as external authentication
- II.B.16 Install LDAP for use as external authentication
- II.B.17 Install AOLserver 3.3oacs1
- II.C Credits
- II.C.1 Where did this document come from?
- II.C.2 Linux Install Guides
- II.C.3 Security Information
- II.C.4 Resources
- II.2 Installation Overview
- III For OpenACS Package Developers
- III.9 Development Tutorial
- III.9.1 Creating an Application Package
- III.9.2 Setting Up Database Objects
- III.9.3 Creating Web Pages
- III.9.4 Debugging and Automated Testing
- III.10 Advanced Topics
- III.10.1 Write the Requirements and Design Specs
- III.10.2 Add the new package to CVS
- III.10.3 OpenACS Edit This Page Templates
- III.10.4 Adding Comments
- III.10.5 Admin Pages
- III.10.6 Categories
- III.10.7 Profile your code
- III.10.8 Prepare the package for distribution.
- III.10.9 Distributing upgrades of your package
- III.10.10 Notifications
- III.10.11 Hierarchical data
- III.10.12 Using .vuh files for pretty urls
- III.10.13 Laying out a page with CSS instead of tables
- III.10.14 Sending HTML email from your application
- III.10.15 Basic Caching
- III.10.16 Scheduled Procedures
- III.10.17 Enabling WYSIWYG
- III.10.18 Adding in parameters for your package
- III.10.19 Writing upgrade scripts
- III.10.20 Connect to a second database
- III.10.21 Future Topics
- III.11 Development Reference
- III.11.1 OpenACS Packages
- III.11.2 OpenACS Data Models and the Object System
- III.11.3 The Request Processor
- III.11.4 The OpenACS Database Access API
- III.11.5 Using Templates in OpenACS
- III.11.6 Groups, Context, Permissions
- III.11.7 Writing OpenACS Application Pages
- III.11.8 Parties in OpenACS
- III.11.9 OpenACS Permissions Tediously Explained
- III.11.10 Object Identity
- III.11.11 Programming with AOLserver
- III.11.12 Using Form Builder: building html forms dynamically
- III.12 Engineering Standards
- III.12.1 OpenACS Style Guide
- III.12.2 Release Version Numbering
- III.12.3 Constraint naming standard
- III.12.4 ACS File Naming and Formatting Standards
- III.12.5 PL/SQL Standards
- III.12.6 Variables
- III.12.7 Automated Testing
- III.13 CVS Guidelines
- III.13.1 Using CVS with OpenACS
- III.13.2 OpenACS CVS Concepts
- III.13.3 Contributing code back to OpenACS
- III.13.4 Additional Resources for CVS
- III.14 Documentation Standards
- III.14.1 OpenACS Documentation Guide
- III.14.2 Using PSGML mode in Emacs
- III.14.3 Using nXML mode in Emacs
- III.14.4 Detailed Design Documentation Template
- III.14.5 System/Application Requirements Template
- III.15 TCLWebtest
- III.16 Internationalization
- III.16.1 Internationalization and Localization Overview
- III.16.2 How Internationalization/Localization works in OpenACS
- III.16.4 Design Notes
- III.16.5 Translator's Guide
- III.D Using CVS with an OpenACS Site
- III.9 Development Tutorial
- IV For OpenACS Platform Developers
- IV.17 Kernel Documentation
- IV.17.1 Overview
- IV.17.2 Object Model Requirements
- IV.17.3 Object Model Design
- IV.17.4 Permissions Requirements
- IV.17.5 Permissions Design
- IV.17.6 Groups Requirements
- IV.17.7 Groups Design
- IV.17.8 Subsites Requirements
- IV.17.9 Subsites Design Document
- IV.17.10 Package Manager Requirements
- IV.17.11 Package Manager Design
- IV.17.12 Database Access API
- IV.17.13 OpenACS Internationalization Requirements
- IV.17.14 Security Requirements
- IV.17.15 Security Design
- IV.17.16 Security Notes
- IV.17.17 Request Processor Requirements
- IV.17.18 Request Processor Design
- IV.17.19 Documenting Tcl Files: Page Contracts and Libraries
- IV.17.20 Bootstrapping OpenACS
- IV.17.21 External Authentication Requirements
- IV.18 Releasing OpenACS
- IV.18.1 OpenACS Core and .LRN
- IV.18.2 How to Update the OpenACS.org repository
- IV.18.3 How to package and release an OpenACS Package
- IV.18.4 How to Update the translations
- IV.17 Kernel Documentation
- V Tcl for Web Nerds
- V.1 Tcl for Web Nerds Introduction
- V.2 Basic String Operations
- V.3 List Operations
- V.4 Pattern matching
- V.5 Array Operations
- V.6 Numbers
- V.7 Control Structure
- V.8 Scope, Upvar and Uplevel
- V.9 File Operations
- V.10 Eval
- V.11 Exec
- V.12 Tcl for Web Use
- V.13 OpenACS conventions for TCL
- V.14 Solutions
- VI SQL for Web Nerds
- VI.1 SQL Tutorial
- VI.1.1 SQL Tutorial
- VI.1.2 Answers
- VI.2 SQL for Web Nerds Introduction
- VI.3 Data modeling
- VI.3.1 The Discussion Forum -- philg's personal odyssey
- VI.3.2 Data Types (Oracle)
- VI.3.4 Tables
- VI.3.5 Constraints
- VI.4 Simple queries
- VI.5 More complex queries
- VI.6 Transactions
- VI.7 Triggers
- VI.8 Views
- VI.9 Style
- VI.10 Escaping to the procedural world
- VI.11 Trees
- VI.1 SQL Tutorial
OpenACS 4.6.2 Release Notes
This is a final release of OpenACS 4.6.2. This release has been subjected to an organized test effort, but please bear in mind that we are still in the process of developing testing tools, methodology, and scripts.
Please report bugs using our Bug Tracker at the OpenACS website. This version of the OpenACS Toolkit supports PostgreSQL 7.2.3 and 7.3.2, and Oracle 8i. It will not work with Oracle 9i (support is planned for OpenACS 4.7.)
Upgrading from OpenACS 4.6.1
OpenACS 4.6.2 includes key datamodel changes to acs-kernel and other packages. Your first step after downloading OpenACS 4.6.2 and restarting AOLserver should be to visit the Package Manager, click on the "install packages" link, and select the checkbox to upgrade acs-kernel. After acs-kernel has been upgraded, return to the "install packages" page and select the checkboxes for all other packages you have installed that need upgrading (they are marked "upgrade" rather than "new install") and perform the upgrade step.
After packages have been upgraded, your installation should run without problems.
You may want to begin by reading our installation documentation for Chapter 3. Note that the Windows documentation is not current for OpenACS 4.6.2, but an alternative is to use John Sequeira's Oasis VM project.
After installation, the full documentation set can be found by visiting http://[your-host]/doc. Not all pieces are updated for OpenACS 4.6.2 at this moment.
If you're using Oracle 8.1.6 or 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition you may want to uncomment the SQL that causes InterMedia to keep online searching online while indexing. The feature doesn't exist in Standard Edition and OpenACS 4.6.2 now defaults to being loadable in SE. Just grep for 'sync' to find the code.
Also be sure to read the documentation in the Site Wide Search package's sql/oracle directory. The APM doesn't execute the SQL for this package, in part due to the fact that some steps need to be run as the Oracle user 'ctxsys'.
If you're using PostgreSQL be sure to read the documentation on installing the Open FTS driver for OpenACS. It's included in the package as a text file and is also summarized at the end of the installation documentation in the section, 4. As with the Oracle version, there are steps you must take manually in order to get this feature working.
OpenMSG has organized the OpenACS 4.6.2 testing process with test servers provided by Hub.org. Visit the acceptance test server to see the current status of various packages. This may not be a permanent link. If it's not working, do a search of the OpenACS forums.
