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author | einhverfr <einhverfr@4979c152-3d1c-0410-bac9-87ea11338e46> | 2007-09-30 05:56:06 +0000 |
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committer | einhverfr <einhverfr@4979c152-3d1c-0410-bac9-87ea11338e46> | 2007-09-30 05:56:06 +0000 |
commit | 31708d9623970b7cb333c00e16e56762c627e89c (patch) | |
tree | 376196e198988b51c01d46191bf1ad2b139b0e27 /INSTALL | |
parent | c91f6206d6484cf8753303be8fb04812741ca254 (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
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 89 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 80 deletions
@@ -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 ========================= |