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OpenACS Debian Install quicksheet

Created by Ryan Gallimore, last modified by Monika Andergassen 05 Oct 2015, at 12:32 PM

# PostgreSQL

 apt-get install postgresql postgresql-dev postgresql-doc 
 ln -s /usr/include/postgresql/ /usr/include/pgsql 
 ln -s /var/lib/postgres /usr/local/pgsql 
 ln -s /usr/include/pgsql /usr/local/pgsql/include 
 su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/createlang plpgsql template1" 
 su postgres -c "createuser -a -d service1" 
 su postgres -c "createdb -E UNICODE service1" 
 

# AOLServer

 apt-get install aolserver4 aolserver4-nspostgres aolserver4-nssha1 aolserver4-nscache tdom

# OpenACS

 groupadd web 
 useradd -g web service1 
 mkdir /var/lib/aolserver 
 chown -R service1 /var/lib/aolserver 
 chgrp -R web /var/lib/aolserver 
 chmod -R 770 /var/lib/aolserver 
 exit 
 
 su - service1 
 cd /tmp 
 wget https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/download/openacs-5.1.5.tar.gz 
 cd /var/lib/aolserver 
 tar xzf /tmp/openacs-5.1.5.tar.gz 
 mv /tmp/openacs-5.1.5 service1 
 
 chmod -R 755 service1 
 chown -R service1.web service1 
 
 exit  

# Copy Files (where / is root of OpenACS instance):
# [edit hostname and address]
config.tcl => /etc/
set homedir                   /usr/lib/aolserver4
set bindir                    /usr/lib/aolserver4/bin


# init/d script:

    
 #!/bin/sh 
 # 
 # Start the AOLServer HTTP server. 
 #  
 
 NAME="OpenACS on service1" 
 SERVICEPATH=/var/lib/aolserver/service1 
 PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin 
 trap "" 1 

 start() 
 { 
 
    echo -n "Starting web server: $NAME" 
    echo -e -n "\r" 
 
    #!/bin/sh  

    
    #we need to export the library stuff first 
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/pgsql/lib 
    export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/pgsql/bin 
 
 
     # give time for Postgres to come up 
     sleep 1 
     exec /usr/sbin/aolserver4-nsd -it $SERVICEPATH/etc/config.tcl -u service1 -g web & 
 
     # For AOLserver 4 using privileged ports (usually < 1024), add the flag 
     # -b youraddress:yourport  
     echo "" 
 } 
 
 
 
 stop() 
 { 
     echo -n "Stopping web server: $NAME" 
     killall aolserver4-nsd 
     echo ""   
 } 
 
 
 case "$1" in 

   start)   
     start 
     ;; 
 
   stop) 
     stop   
     ;; 
 
 
   restart) 
     stop 
     sleep 2 
     start 
     ;; 
 
   *) 
     echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|restart}" 
     exit 1 
     ;;   
 esac 
 
 echo -n -e "\c\r\n" 
 exit 0 
 
 
 # End of script  
  

# avoid pid not found errors in the log

 mkdir /usr/lib/aolserver4/log 
 chown root:web /usr/lib/aolserver4/log 
 chmod 775 /usr/lib/aolserver4/log 

# Set openacs to start on boot

 update-rc.d openacs-service1 defaults 
 chmod u+x openacs-service1   
 ln -s /var/lib/aolserver/service1 

Install AOLserver 4.5

Created by Malte Sussdorff, last modified by Monika Andergassen 05 Oct 2015, at 12:12 PM

If you want to install AOLserver 4.5 you could follow the instructions for AOLserver en:aolserver-install and replace 40r10 with 4.5 (more or less ...).

Alternatively follow the instructions or download it as a shell script (recommended) or download a full archive aolserver45-oacs.tar.bz2.

If on "OS X" the install fails for nspostgres with undefined symbols, execute the following command:

gcc -pipe -dynamiclib -install_name /usr/local/aolserver45/lib/libnspostgres.dylib  -o libnspostgres.dylib nspostgres.o -L/usr/local/aolserver45/lib -lnsd -lnsthread -L/usr/local/aolserver45/lib -ltcl8.4   -lpthread -framework CoreFoundation   -lnsdb -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib -lpq

Try Openacs

Created by OpenACS community, last modified by Gustaf Neumann 01 May 2015, at 09:43 AM

To try OpenACS, you might lease a hosted system with OpenACS installed on it:

• Companies that host OpenACS websites

Accounts Finance

Created by OpenACS community, last modified by Gustaf Neumann 14 Nov 2014, at 07:39 PM

Package Specification Summary for Package: accounts-finance

Summary:	Finance package provides limited set of tools for long-term debts, fixed assets, forecasting.
Description:	Finance package provides some tools for long-term debts, fixed assets, capital, stock holding, dividends, forecasting and reporting. Integrates with general-ledger etc.
Maturity:	Immature
This package depends on:	acs-datetime q-forms spreadsheet
Packages that depend on accounts-finance:	None
Package parameters:	auxiliary: AuxiliaryColumnNames A space delimited list of column names allowed for alternate resource costs or system inputs and outputs in PRETTI P2 and P3 tables. Column 'name' and 'type' are reserved. (default ghg ggwp co2e cde coal oil ng gt nuke hydro solar wind cement eru cers rec km airkm, type string, scope instance) auxiliary: AuxiliaryColumnsNameMaxLength Limits the maximum column name length of auxiliary resource cost calculations used in PRETTI P2 and P3 tables. 0 means no auxiliary columns calculated (except any declared in AuxiliaryColumnNames parameter. Column 'name' and 'type' are reserved. (default 4, type number, scope instance) constraints: TableRowsMax Limits the maximum row size of any table. 0 is no limit. (default 0, type number, scope instance) processes: ScheduledProcsAllowed A space delimited list of procs allowed to be scheduled in package instance (default acc_fin::pie_file_create_from_table acc_fin::cobbler_file_create_from_table, type string, scope instance)

Bug Tracker Summary for Package: accounts-finance

There is no package with the name "accounts-finance" known to bug-tracker.

Code Metrics Summary for Package: accounts-finance

# Tcl Procs	0
# Tcl Lines	0
# Tcl Blank Lines	1
# Tcl Comment Lines	0
# Automated Tests	0
# Stored Procedures	PG: 0 ORA: 0
# SQL Lines	PG: 0 (blank 1 comments 0) ORA: 0 (blank 1 comments 0)
# ADP pages	0
# ADP lines	0
# Include pages (accounts-finance/lib/)	0
# Documentation pages	0
# Documentation lines	0
Browse Source	Not installed
Github Repository:	https://github.com/openacs/accounts-finance/tree/oacs-5-10

Status

pre-release

Introduction

Part of the ecommerce-g2 project

Feature requests

add requests here

Installing OpenACS on FreeBSD

Created by OpenACS community, last modified by Gustaf Neumann 04 Sep 2014, at 07:33 PM

OpenACS and .LRN are available via FreeBSD ports. See en:openacs-system-install-freebsd-ports.

The following notes are useful if you decide to follow the OpenACS manual installation process using FreeBSD. These notes include points where a manual FreeBSD install differes from the slow, manual en:openacs-system-install.

The following information is pulled from: https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=312823 and https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=136910 and https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=312823

The OpenACS Reference Platform uses shell scripts written for bash, which is the standard Linux shell. If you are using a different shell, you will need to substitute your shell's conventions for setting environment variables when appropriate, and install bash to work with the scripts. Substitute fetch when the instructions suggest you use wget to download software.

Note that on most linux distributions, GNU Make is simply named make and there is no gmake, whereas on BSD distributions, make and gmake are different --use gmake.

Change the period separating user.group in chown commands to use a colon ":" instead. For example,

chown -R $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

becomes:

chown -R $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME:$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

Should you decide to install OpenACS from source using general en:openacs-system-install instructions, refer to these notes for changes:

Installing tdom

FreeBSD can use the standard tdom from ports when installing manually, without going the extra step of installing tdom within the aolserver src tree.

Installing en:postgresql

Creating postgres user

To set defaults for new users or special service users you may create, edit the file /etc/share/skel/dot.profile instead of /etc/profile

To create the user, we need to add more parameters to match what is expected from creating a user in linux.

[root src]# mkdir -p /usr/local/pgsql
[root src]# pw groupadd -n web
[root src]# pw useradd -n postgres -g web -d /usr/local/pgsql -s /bin/bash
[root src]# chown -R postgres:web /usr/local/pgsql /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.4.7
[root src]# chmod -R 750 /usr/local/pgsql
[root src]#
mkdir -p /usr/local/pgsql
pw groupadd -n web
pw useradd -n postgres -g web -d /usr/local/pgsql -s /bin/bash
chown -R postgres:web /usr/local/pgsql /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.4.7
chmod -R 750 /usr/local/pgsql

Set PostgreSQL to start on boot

[root ~]# cp /tmp/openacs-5.2.0d1/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/postgresql.txt /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql.sh
[root ~]# chown root:wheel /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql.sh
[root ~]# chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql.sh
[root ~]# 
cp /tmp/openacs-5.2.0d1/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/postgresql.txt /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql.sh
chown root:wheel /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql.sh
chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql.sh

Test the script

[root ~]# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql.sh stop
Stopping PostgreSQL: ok
[root ~]# 

If PostgreSQL successfully stopped, then turn it back on because we'll use it later.

[root root]# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql.sh start
Starting PostgreSQL: ok
[root root]#
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql.sh start

PostgreSQL performance tuning

See man syctl, man 5 sysctl and man 5 loader.conf.

Installing Libthreads 2.6.5

cd /usr/local/src/aolserver/
fetch http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/thread2.6.5.tar.gz
tar xzpf thread2.6.5.tar.gz
cd thread2.6.5/unix
less ../README
../configure --help
../configure --enable-threads --prefix=/usr/local/aolserver --exec-prefix=/usr/local/aolserver --with-aolserver=/usr/local/aolserver --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib/tcl8.4-threads
gmake
gmake install

Creating users

We need to add more parameters to have user environments match the linux ones expected by the en:openacs-reference-platform.

Create users this way:

[root root]# mkdir -p /home/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
[root root]# pw useradd -n $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME -g web -d /home/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME -s /bin/bash
[root root]#
mkdir -p /home/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
pw useradd -n $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME -g web -d /home/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME -s /bin/bash

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Messages Applet

Created by Gustaf Neumann, last modified by Gustaf Neumann 16 Sep 2013, at 09:33 PM

Package Specification Summary for Package: dotlrn-messages

Summary:
Description:
Maturity:	New Submission or Maturity Unknown
This package depends on:	dotlrn messages-portlet
Packages that depend on dotlrn-messages:	None
Package parameters:	None

Bug Tracker Summary for Package: dotlrn-messages

There is no package with the name "dotlrn-messages" known to bug-tracker.

Code Metrics Summary for Package: dotlrn-messages

# Tcl Procs	0
# Tcl Lines	0
# Tcl Blank Lines	1
# Tcl Comment Lines	0
# Automated Tests	0
# Stored Procedures	PG: 0 ORA: 0
# SQL Lines	PG: 0 (blank 1 comments 0) ORA: 0 (blank 1 comments 0)
# ADP pages	0
# ADP lines	0
# Include pages (dotlrn-messages/lib/)	0
# Documentation pages	0
# Documentation lines	0
Browse Source	Not installed
Github Repository:	https://github.com/openacs/dotlrn-messages/tree/oacs-5-10