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OpenACS/dotLRN Windows Installer Instructions

Created by Byron Linares, last modified by Maurizio Martignano 07 Jun 2017, at 05:34 PM

NOTE: Currently (06/2017), the best option to get OpenACS 5.9.* running on Windows is to use the native windows installation Windows-OpenACS by Spazio IT (Maurizio Martignano).

This page describes the installation of (quite old) components based on cygwin, but might still be useful for people, that can't use Maurizio's implementation for whatever reason:

OpenACS 5.2.3
DotLRN 2.2.0

Included Software

AOLServer 4.0.beta10_2003
PostgresSQL 7.4.3
OpenACS 5.2.3
DotLrn 2.2.0
Cygwin

Installer Download :

The installer is available in openacs community page.
Available versions:

OpenACS/dotLRN installer
OpenACS 5.2.0 installer

Installation Instructions:

Run the "OpenACS/DotLRN Installer" called setup.exe, read the license document before continuing, the installer will ask for some information, this will be used to make the automatic installation.

There are to ways to install the components; manually or automatic

Components

dotLRN Manual and openACS Manual:
In this modality the entered personal data in the installer will be omitted and will be necessary to retake the installation from a browser window and enter the necessary data to continue the creation of the data modeling.
dotLRN Automatic and openACS Automatic
In this modality the installer its in charge of all the work, when finishing creating the data model the following step would be to reinitiate the service and continue with the use of the platform.
Source Code:
The installer will put in the installation folder the source code of the same one.

Select what you want to install and click next. After the installer places all the files, a browser window will be opened and the installation have to be continued from here, if the automatic mode has been selected wait to the installation finishes. When the installation finishes restart the server and type in a web browser "http://localhost"

Access Icons:

OpenACS on the web: access to http://localhost/
Start Server: Bach file to initiate the server (aolserver, postgresql, cygwim)
Stop Server: Bach file to stop the server (aolserver, postgresql, cygwin)
Unistall OpenACS: Uninstall all

Diagnostics

Check if CygWin: Please execute the file server/cygwin/cygwin.bat. You should get a black screen with some green text saying: "yourusername@yourcomputer" and the "$".
Check PostgreSQL: in the cygwin window typy psql -l , You should get the names of all data base.
Check AOLServer: ps -alW | grep nsd , You should get some thing like this
2312 0 0 2312 ? 0 07:52:20 C:\OpenACS\nsd4\bin\nsd.exe

Full guide

developed at the Galileo University (www.galileo.edu) by Byron Haroldo Linares Roman bhlr@galileo.edu as part of the E-LANE project (www.e-lane.org)

related forum threads

OpenACS/dotLRN installer for MSWindows

References to this Page: en:.LRN_Installation Categories: Subsystems Documentation (OpenACS.org)

Bulk Upload

Created by OpenACS community, last modified by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jun 2017, at 11:02 AM

Status

pre-release (part of the ecommerce-g2 project)

Introduction

There is little consistency between packages for uploading data. Most packages do not offer an import feature. The current practice is to use the database import features directly. This also means creating small scripts or using intermediate applications to manipulate the data prior to import, and using shell commands to get the data into the right security context and location. Mistakes in the import usually have to be corrected with hand-written sql updates. A data importer likely needs to have admin level access and unix level competency, which is beyond the usual skill set required to manage a website application. A bulk-upload package would standardize and ease barriers to setting up and managing OpenACS packages.

Vision Statement

A package that provides standardized UI and import services for bulk uploading data (tables and lists) into existing tables of other packages

Requirements

provide import modes
- insert rows with new keys only
- update where rows already exist
- report any unchanged rows?
- ignore or error if importing a field not found in tables or specified sets
import to multiple tables from the same upload
option to print or log ignored or rejected rows/fields
use the status_bar feature, that tells when a file is uploaded, and when it is being processed (helps in cases where connection times out)
Use this framework to create a UI for managing ACS reference data ( en:acs-reference ) --importing, updating, editing, reporting. (for en:ecommerce-g2 )

Implementation Notes

Exsiting ecommerce bulk upload of custom fields represents the most flexible at this point, because it handles inserts and updates, and builds the sql as well as uses the xql query files: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openacs/ecommerce/master/www/admin/products/extras-upload-2.tcl

Perhaps a dumbed-down spreadsheet data model would work well, to allow for tables of most any number of columns or rows without having to create/expose code that modifies db tables.

DAVEB: In addition to any generic storage of imported data, I think it would be useful to support importing into specific storage tables. The easiest, best examples are the content repository, or dynamic types defined tables and views. There are Tcl apis to insert/update these tables and it makes sense to support this as well.

Don Baccus has other implementations which complement this and may provide an overall development path for a preliminary general bulk upload.

Feature requests

Categories: ecommerce-g2 (OpenACS.org)

Installing OpenACS on FreeBSD with ports

Created by Gustaf Neumann, last modified by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jun 2017, at 10:28 AM

NEW: For the impatient users there is a quick-and-dirty install guide for FreeBSD

OpenACS and .LRN are included in the current FreeBSD ports tree.
The ports are tested with FreeBSD production version 6.2-RELEASE, old stable 5.5-RELEASE and the development branch 7-CURRENT.

Installation requirements:

FreeBSD operating system with root access rights.
Installed and updated FreeBSD Ports Collection (for updating see Appendix A below)
(alternative: installing from packages, see Appendix B)

To install OpenACS or .LRN from the FreeBSD ports tree, follow the instructions below.

1. Installing and configuring PostgreSQL

NOTICE: If you have a PostgreSQL server installed and running, skip to Section 2.

If you desire to use a local PostgreSQL server (most users do), install the server first.
We recommend using PostgreSQL version 8.2 from the databases/postgresql82-server port

# cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql82-server # make install clean

NOTICE: As an alternative, you may install PostgreSQL server from a binary package. See Appendix B below

The plperl language is required for OpenACS/.LRN. This can be installed from the ports with the following commands:

# cd /usr/ports/databases/p5-postgresql-plperl # make install clean

To install the OpenACS/.LRN database, your PostgreSQL server must be running.
You need to enable it in your /etc/rc.conf (or /etc/rc.conf.local) by adding the following line:

postgresql_enable="YES"

After installing the PostgreSQL server, you have to initialize your data store:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb

To start the PostgreSQL server, issue the following command:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql start

You can check if the server is up and running with:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql status

2. Installing OpenACS / .LRN

2.1 Installing the OpenACS or .LRN port

OpenACS can be installed directly from the FreeBSD ports tree, www/openacs:

# cd /usr/ports/www/openacs
# make install clean

.LRN installation, www/openacs-dotlrn:

# cd /usr/ports/www/openacs-dotlrn
# make install clean

NOTICE: If you want to make changes to the default configuration, the AOLserver configuration files for OpenACS/.LRN files are located at:
/usr/local/openacs/etc/openacs-config.tcl
/usr/local/dotlrn/etc/dotlrn-config.tcl

NOTICE: If you installed both OpenACS and .LRN ports, you have to change the default port of one of the installations. See the configuration files in the previous notice.

2.2 Creating the OpenACS/.LRN database

For this step, you require an installed and running PostgreSQL server (see Section 1) and installed OpenACS/.LRN (see Section 2.1)

First we need to adjust the PostgreSQL configuration (this applies for server versions 8.1.x and higher):

# /usr/local/share/doc/openacs/adjust_pgsql_conf.sh

or if .LRN was installed:

# /usr/local/share/doc/dotlrn/adjust_pgsql_conf.sh

NOTICE: You can adjust the configuration manually (standard location: /usr/local/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf)
Please see en:How_to_install_in_Postgres_8.x.

The PostgreSQL server needs to be restarted after changing the configuration:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql restart

Next, we can create a default OpenACS database by running the following script:

# /usr/local/share/doc/openacs/create_sampledb.sh

To create a default .LRN database, run the following script:

# /usr/local/share/doc/dotlrn/create_sampledb.sh

2.3 Starting OpenACS/.LRN and finalizing installation

To make use of the automatic startup script OpenACS/.LRN has to be enabled in /etc/rc.conf (or /etc/rc.conf.local):

openacs_enable="YES"

or for .LRN:

dotlrn_enable="YES"

To start OpenACS, use the following command:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openacs start

To start .LRN, use the following command:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dotlrn start

Now you can login to your OpenACS/.LRN system and finalize the installation.
The default port is 8000. URL:

http://<your-ip>:<port>

After filling your e-mail address, password and other important information OpenACS/.LRN gets installed, but the server stops.
You have to start it again (see above).

A. Updating the FreeBSD ports tree

To get the latest versions of the OpenACS, .LRN and other FreeBSD ports, it is recommended to update the FreeBSD ports tree on a regular basis. The easiest way to to perform this task is using the portsnap(8) command.

For documentation, refer to the following FreeBSD Handbook chapters:
Using the Ports Collection
Using Portsnap

B. Installing from binary packages

PostgreSQL, OpenACS, .LRN and all dependent ports may be installed from binary packages, too.
This installation can be performed from a submenu of FreeBSD's sysinstall(8) command: Configure/Packages

OpenACS and .LRN are located in subcategory www, PostgreSQL is in subcategory databases.

C. Contact information and bug reporting

Please send bug reports and feature suggestions to the port maintainer of OpenACS/.LRN FreeBSD ports:
Martin Matuska <mm_at_FreeBSD_dot_org>

References to this Page: en:openacs-system-install-freebsd-ports-quick, en:.LRN_Installation Categories: Subsystems Documentation (OpenACS.org)

.LRN 2.4 Release Management

Created by Emmanuelle Raffenne, last modified by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jun 2017, at 09:32 AM

About

Current status: Released! (see the release notes)
Next release date: no further releases are planned for this version
Stable release: 2.4.1 released October 27th, 2008
Feature freeze and branch: March 11th, 2008

.LRN 2.4 will contain acs-core, dotlrn-all and dotlrn-extras packages. See Aliases at CVS for a detailed list of the packages included in those aliases.

Releases are coordinated by the .LRN Leadership Team.

Weekly technical meetings in IRC at openacs channel:

From March 31st to October 26th, 2008: Tuesdays at 16:00 GMT
From October 27th to December 31st: Tuesdays at 17:00 GMT

To do and goals

New features

HTML 4.01 Strict
WAI-AA compliant
file-storage: categorization (tested and worked as expected - vguerra)
views: oracle support
forums: read/unread per message and user ?

2.4.1 To-do List

Package	What	Who	State
Forums	Permissions. See forums for details	--	pending
All	Accessibility: see forums for details	emmar	DONE

2.4.0 To-do List

The table below lists the bug fixed for 2.4.0

Package/Topic	What	Who	State
Accessibility	A few improvements, see forums for details	emmar	DONE
Accessibility	Color of the class portal doesn't pass the luminosity contrast test (ratio = 3:1, should be 5:1 for normal text)	daveb	FIXED
new-portal	set default layout to theme-zen when a new page is added to a portal	donb	FIXED
theme-selva	fix CSS	donb	FIXED (somewhat) I fixed the basic portal layout and decoration stuff, nothing else. If someone else cares about selva, please other css issues as you find them
forums	message-view expand/collapse should toggle (but it's done in javascript so the page doesn't know what the current state is) or we should just delete the options as we did in 2.3. Also the print button should disappear - print should be handled by linking the package's print.css file using media="print", with printing then handled by the browse as it is meant to be in this modern era.	vguerra	The proposed fix was incomplete (only one cookie value for all threads), feature will be removed from 2.4. Victor can fix it in HEAD for a future release if he wishes to.
forums	doesn't work for oracle	donb	FIXED
forums	forums: the "new" tag in the forums portlet lasts longer than the "bold" mark of new messages in the forum page (forum-view)	vguerra	FIXED
forums	when posting a message ( without previewing it ) part of the screen gets black	vguerra	xinha problem (core)
forums	testing upgrade regarding the "readinginfo" new feature	marioa emmar	DONE
file-storage	file upload doesn't work for oracle	donb	FIXED (CR in core)
lorsm	failed because of the oracle port of views.	emmar	FIXED
dotlrn	sending email to new members when added to a class/club seems to be broken (no email is sent out).	nimam	FIXED
dotlrn	When renaming department and subject, the package instance pretty name is not edited so the old name still appears in the breadcrumbs	morals	FIXED
imsld	error when applet added to a class (root folder missing)	emmar	FIXED (CR in core)
imsld	merge version from 5.3 to 5.4	derick	DONE
assessment	use form builder where it's possible and finish html 4.01 strict validation afterwards	emmar	DONE
chat	missing upgrade script (from downgrade between 2.3.0 and 2.3.1)	emmar/avni	FIXED
sending email	check and test with the new acs-mail-lite send proc (bulk-mail, forum, evaluation, imsld, etc.)	emmar	DONE
breadcrumbs	Usability: breadcrumbs should start from dotLRN root node instead of the main site. dotlrn root node should be labelled as "Home". The portal page name should appear in the breadcrumbs last element of the breadcrumbs should match the title of the page	emmar	DONE
lorsm	This addition cvs diff -r 1.5 -r 1.6 lorsm-create.sql Needs an upgrade script	daveb	DONE

Others:

Categories: Releases (OpenACS.org)

.LRN Board of Directors

Created by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini, last modified by Gustaf Neumann 07 Jun 2017, at 09:28 AM

.LRN 2007 Board of Directors

After the nomination process, the current elected board:

(1 year term: 1/nov/2006 - 31/oct/2007)

Jesus G. Boticario (UNED)
Carl Robert Blesius (HMS)
Rocael Hernandez (Galileo University)
Caroline Meeks (Solution Grove)
Carlos Delgado (UC3M)
Cesar Brea (Monitor)
Gustaf Neumann (WU Wien)

Check the dotLRN governance.

Contact the board: board @t dotlrn dot org.

Categories: Consortium (OpenACS.org)