Get the OpenACS Source Code
These instructions describe, how to obtain OpenACS, either as a released distribution (a .tar.gz file) or from CVS.
Obtain a released version of OpenACS via .tar file:
Download from OpenACS.org: //projects/openacs/download/?versions=all
Unpack the OpenACS tarball. Usually something like this works:
tar zxvf openacs-5.10.0.tgz
Obtain OpenACS from CVS (a certain release with potential patches, or the HEAD version):
If you want to track fresh code developments between releases, or you are an OpenACS core developer, you may want to install from CVS. This is identical to downloading a distribution, except that you get the files from CVS instead of the tarball. The following commands are used to obtain the newest version of the OpenACS 5.10 branch from CVS:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot login # press enter for password cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-10 acs-core
The command above checks out the core packages of OpenACS in a directory named openacs-4. For the entire OpenACS version 5.10 branch, you can use the following commands (adjust as required going forward):
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-10 openacs-4
If the branch name (like oacs-5-10) is omitted, the leading edge developer version (the HEAD release) is obtained
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout openacs-4
In order to check out a single package (e.g. the package cronjob) from e.g. the leading edge developer version (HEAD), use
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout openacs-4/packages/cronjob
For most OpenACS packages, CVS aliases are defined. In order to check out e.g. the forums package from OpenACS 5.10, just use:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-10 forums
Depending, from which directory you are performing the checkout, you might have to move the checked-out package directory to the main "packages" directory of your installation.
More info here: https://openacs.org/test-doc/using-cvs-with-openacs
Looking for README instructions or installers? View the OpenACS Installation instructions: en:openacs-system-install, otherwise continue by setting up the OpenACS distribution:
Set up the file system for one or more OpenACS sites
According to the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is currently not strict, where the files of web servers should be stored. Common places are /var/www/ or /srv/www/. Sticking to common names eases the maintenance of systems. This name is called SERVERROOT belwo. In case, multiple OpenACS installations are on a single system, it is recommended to use e.g. domain name of the system as a path, like e.g. /var/www/openacs.org/. We use here the conventions to name the installation based on the version number /var/www/oacs-5-10/. This folder is called OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME. All the files in each OpenACS site are stored in a subdirectory (see also: en:openacs-reference-platform). The first time you install an OpenACS site on a server, you must create the parent directory and set its permissions:
While logged in as root:
mkdir -p /var/www/oacs-5-10 chgrp web /var/www/oacs-5-10 chmod 770 /var/www/oacs-5-10
Move the uncompressed code to SERVERROOT and rename the directory to $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME:
mv openacs-4 /var/www/oacs-5-10/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
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- Edit-this-page Applet
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- EduWiki Applet
- EduWiki Portlet
- Evaluation applet
- Evaluation portlet
- Expense-tracking Applet
- FAQ Applet
- FAQ Portlet
- File Storage Applet
- File Storage Portlet
- Forums Applet
- Forums Portlet
- Glossar Applet
- Glossar Portlet
- Homework Applet
- IMS-LD Applet
- IMS LD Portlet
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- Invoices Portlet
- Jabber Applet
- Jabber Portlet
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- LAMS Integration Portlet
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- Learning Content Portlet
- LORS central
- LORS - Learning Objects Repository Service
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- LORS management Applet
- LORS management Portlet
- Messages Applet
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- MMplayer Applet
- MMplayer Portlet
- News Aggregator Applet
- News Aggregator Portlet
- News Applet
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- Static Applet
- Static Portlet
- Survey Applet
- Survey Portlet
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- Tasks Portlet
- Theme Zen
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- User Tracking Applet
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- Weblogger Applet
- Weblogger Portlet
- Wikipedia Applet
- Wikipedia Portlet
- Wimpypoint Slim Applet
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- Irc Applet
- IRC Logger
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- PayFlowPro Gateway
- Personal Community
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- {deprecated} ACS Content
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- {deprecated} ACS Mail
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- {deprecated} Bboard Portlet
- {deprecated} dotFOLIO
- {deprecated} dotFOLIO UI
- {deprecated} dotLRN BBoard Applet
- {deprecated} OpenFTS Driver
- {deprecated} Portal
- {deprecated} Sloan Bboard
- {deprecated} Spam System
- {deprecated} Webmail
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- 2006 OpenACS/.LRN Fall Conference
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- 2007 Project Ideas for Google Summer of Code
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- .LRN 2.3.1 to .LRN 2.4 Change Log
- .LRN 2.3 Release Management
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- Emacs as an OpenACS IDE
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- .LRN Zen Project: Standards
- Naming Conventions
- Security Guidelines
- SQL - XQL
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- template::head::*
- Vi as an OpenACS IDE
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- Web Forms
- Web Lists / Tables
- External Resources
- Cookbook
- Accessing LTI services from OpenACS
- Add extra headers
- Cookbook
- Creating adp box tags for consistent html/css
- Double Click Handling
- E-Mail: Event Handling
- E-Mail: Incoming E-Mail
- E-Mail: Outgoing E-Mail
- F. A. Q.
- Fresh install of OpenACS 5.10 on Oracle 19c
- Handling out of memory on "exec" calls
- Host Node Map
- How to configure a Network Place under Windows XP to access file-storage via WebDAV
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- Security: Content Security Policy (CSP)
- Security: Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Server-sent events
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- SQL: How to log (slow) queries in the system log
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- When to use URLencode
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- Resources
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- Commit graph
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- just playing around
- name with space
- OpenACS Object Types
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- preview.png
- QUOTA
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- Documentation Project Discussion
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- for administrators - Table of Contents
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- for everyone - Table of Contents
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- Marketing Documentation
- Tutorials
- Developer Tutorial - Req.
- for beginning developers
- Introduction to OpenACS
- Next Steps After Installation, Debian Specific
- OpenACS/dotLRN windows installer how to
- Theming in OpenACS
- Tutorials for Designers
- Tutorials for Users
- Tutorials for Administrators
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- Add extra headers
- Automated Installs - Using install.xml
- Body Onload javascript event
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- Core Documentation
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- Administrators - Req.
- AOLserver
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- Deployment feedback channel
- Developer - Requirements
- Developer Tutorial - Req.
- Emacs as an OpenACS IDE
- End-users - Requirements
- for administrators
- for administrators - Table of Contents
- for beginning developers
- for developers
- for developers - Table of Contents
- for everyone
- for everyone - Table of Contents
- Get the OpenACS Source Code
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- hstore
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- Install AOLserver
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- Installation - Req.
- Installing OpenACS
- Installing OpenACS on Arch Linux
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- Install OpenACS distribution
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- Install OpenACS on Linux
- Install OpenACS on Mac OS X 10.5 / 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Using Macports
- Install OpenACS - prereqs
- Install OpenACS with NaviServer from Scratch
- Install Oracle
- Install Postgresql
- Install Tcl
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- Monitoring Naviserver
- Nagios Monitoring
- NaviServer
- Next Steps After Installation, Debian Specific
- *nix operating system
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- OpenACS/dotLRN windows installer how to
- OpenACS/dotLRN Windows Installer Instructions
- OpenACS/.LRN for Debian
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- PostgreSQL's Tsearch2
- Securing your system
- Source control
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- Tcl Thread Library
- tDOM
- tDOM with OpenACS
- Testing with Selenium
- Testing with TCLWebtest
- Upgrade between PostgreSQL versions
- Upgrade from PostgreSQL 9.6 to 13.1
- Upgrade to OpenACS 5.10
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