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authoreinhverfr <einhverfr@4979c152-3d1c-0410-bac9-87ea11338e46>2007-09-30 05:56:06 +0000
committereinhverfr <einhverfr@4979c152-3d1c-0410-bac9-87ea11338e46>2007-09-30 05:56:06 +0000
commit31708d9623970b7cb333c00e16e56762c627e89c (patch)
tree376196e198988b51c01d46191bf1ad2b139b0e27
parentc91f6206d6484cf8753303be8fb04812741ca254 (diff)
Rolling back Hugh Esco's patch
git-svn-id: https://ledger-smb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ledger-smb/branches/1.2@1679 4979c152-3d1c-0410-bac9-87ea11338e46
-rw-r--r--INSTALL89
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 80 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index fc600975..c6fa21b0 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -29,45 +29,8 @@ refered to as LEDGERPATH for the remainder of this INSTALL file).
LedgerSMB files should be owned by the apache user, apache:apache on
many systems.
-2) Install the procedural language on your database server
-
-Note: installing here on the template1 database will permit it
-to propogate to every future database created, both those used
-by LedgerSMB (which require it) and to other databases you
-may create for other applications (which may not need it).
-If that is not what you want, consider first creating a
-template2-plpgsql database, adapting this command to install
-the language on that application specific template, leaving
-your template1 clean. Then you can use your template2-plpgsql
-database as a starting point for any datasets you create
-for LedgerSMB.
-
-We start by ensuring that the plpgsql language has not already
-been installed. If that first query does not result in a
-record where the 'lanname' field is 'plpgsql', then you need
-to install the procedural language.
-
-# su - postgres
-$ psql
-
-=> \c template1
-=> SELECT * FROM pg_language;
-=> \q
-
-$ createlang plpgsql template1
-$ psql
-
-=> ALTER ROLE postgres WITH PASSWORD 'YOURPASSWORD';
-
-Some distributions will create a postgres database user without
-ever prompting the user for an administrative password for
-the user. If you start as root, su - postgres and invoke
-psql from the postgres shell prompt, you would never need the
-postgres database user's password. But you will need to know
-the password later when you start creating accounting datasets.
-So might as well create one now.
-
-3) Create a postgresql admin database role, by convention named
+
+2) Create a postgresql admin database role, by convention named
'ledgersmb':
$ createuser --no-superuser --createdb --no-createrole \
@@ -89,7 +52,7 @@ Further commands and database interaction should be conducted using
the new LedgerSMB admin role 'ledgersmb'.
-4) Create a central user database, owned by the LedgerSMB admin role,
+3) Create a central user database, owned by the LedgerSMB admin role,
'ledgersmb':
$ createdb -U ledgersmb -O ledgersmb ledgersmb
@@ -100,7 +63,7 @@ The equivalent SQL statement is:
OWNER=ledgersmb;
-5) On the database that will store your user and session information,
+4) On the database that will store your user and session information,
run the included Pg-central.sql SQL commands to configure the user
and session tables and functions:
@@ -119,7 +82,7 @@ PLPGSQL installed in the dataset as well. However that is beyond the
scope of these instructions.
-6) The SQL commands in step 5) created an LedgerSMB-managed admin user,
+5) The SQL commands in step 4) created an LedgerSMB-managed admin user,
e.g. a row in the users and users_conf table. You must now update the
'admin' user's password in users_conf from the default password.
@@ -134,7 +97,7 @@ is separate, but can be the same spelling as MYROLEPASSWORD).
ledgersmb=> \q
-7) Edit the LEDGERPATH/ledgersmb.conf file:
+6) Edit the LEDGERPATH/ledgersmb.conf file:
a) Copy 'ledgersmb.conf.default' to 'ledgersmb.conf'
@@ -149,27 +112,12 @@ DBUserName = ledgersmb
DBPassword = MYROLEPASSWORD
-8) Add configuration to Apache:
+7) Add configuration to Apache:
$ sh configure_apache.sh
-You will be prompted for the user which runs your apache server.
-This user is usually known as: apache, www-data, nobody or
-something similiar.
-
-You will also be prompted for the directory where you want to install
-the modified apache configuration file for LedgerSMB. On an apache2
-installation (at least on a Debian server) that would be:
-
- /etc/apache2/sites-available
-$ cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
-$ a2en ledgersmb-http.conf
-
-That will create a symlink in your ../sites-enabled/ directory
-and prompt you to restart your server.
-
-9) Check Dependencies:
+8) Check Dependencies:
The Build.PL script can be used to test for unmet dependencies and
run other tests. It doesn't install anything yet, but it will tell
@@ -182,23 +130,11 @@ distribution's package manager, or by CPAN. (Build.PL itself uses
Module::Build, which is available in packages like perl-Module-Build
or libmodule-build-perl.)
-Alternately you can use the Makefile.PL as follows:
-
-$ perl Makefile.PL
-
-That should serve essentially the same function as running
-Build.PL would.
-
Once this is done and dependencies are satisfied, you can check to
see whether the installation nominally works by running:
$ ./Build test
-or, if you are using the makefile, try this instead:
-
-$ make
-$ make test
-
The test suites currently check to make sure all the perl modules
load and that a number of numeric tests are passed.
@@ -210,17 +146,10 @@ include:
* Parse::RecDescent for the CLI script host
-Finally, if you are using the makefile, instead of the Build
-method, to install the application, as the root user, use this:
-
-# make install
-10) Restart Apache (instructions vary with your Linux distro or operating
+9) Restart Apache (instructions vary with your Linux distro or operating
system).
-On a Debian system try:
-
-# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Create Datasets and Users
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