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Installing Metacat requires a server running an SQL92 compliant database
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processor or higher. The amount of disk space required depends on the
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size of your RDBMS tablespace (which should be at least 10 MB,
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however Metacat itself requires only about 1 MB of free space after
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installation. These instructions assume a Linux environment but may
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The server on which you wish to install Metacat must have the following
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software installed and running correctly before attempting to install
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Metacat.
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<li><a href="http://www.oracle.com">Oracle 8i</a> (or another SQL92
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compliant RDBMS like Postgres)</li>
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Apache web server should
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Make sure that JAVA_HOME environment variable is properly set and that both
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The Oracle RDBMS must be installed and running as a daemon on the system.
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In addition the JDBC listener must be enabled. You can enable it by
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logging in as your Oracle user and typing the following:
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Your instance should have a table space of at least 5 MB (10 MB or higher
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recommended). You should also have a username specific to Metacat
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created and enabled. This user must have most normal permissions
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including CREATE SESSION, CREATE TABLE, CREATE INDEX, CREATE TRIGGER,
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EXECUTE PROCEDURE, EXECUTE TYPE, etc. If an action is unexplainably
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rejected by Metacat it is probably because the user permissions are not
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<p><i>Postgres:</i><br>
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you can install the rpms for postgres and then run
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<code>/etc/init.d/postgresql start</code> in order to start the database.
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This initializes the data files. You need to do a bit of configuration
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to create a database and set up a user account and allow internet access
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via jdbc. See the postgres documentation for this, but here is a quick
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<li>Switch to the "postgres" user account and edit "data/pg_hba.conf", adding the following line to the file:<br>
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<code>host metacat metacat 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 password</code></li>
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starting with "tcpip_socket" so that it reads
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Ant is a Java based build application similar to Make on UNIX systems.
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It takes in installation parameters from a file in the root installation
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directory named "build.xml". The Metacat CVS module contains a default
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build.xml file that may require some modification upon installation. Ant
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not working with Ant 1.6.x, so you'll need to use an earler version. We have
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successfully used Ant 1.5.1, 1.5.2, and some earlier versions.
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Tomcat installation is available <a href=" http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html">here</a>.
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the installation of Metacat can begin. First you must have a current
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version of the source distribution of Metacat. You can get it two ways.
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be checked out in sibling directories. The command is as follows:
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Once you have either checked out or unzipped and untarred the source
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distribution, you can begin the installation process. Change into the
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<td>context</td>
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want Metacat to be installed. This will determine the installation
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directory for the servlet and many of the URLs that are used to access
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the installed Metacat server.</td>
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appended to the end if Tomcat is running stand-alone (see example).
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<td>httpserver</td>
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<td>httpserver is the plain HTTP address on which Metacat is running
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<code>knb.ecoinformatics.org</code>
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authentication module to authenticate and identify users of the
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system. To participate in the KNB network, you should leave this at
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the default. But it can be changed if you want to use a
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<td>Select the database to use for metadata storage.
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an Oracle username.</td>
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during a query. It is set to "knb", which is one of the styles that
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ships with the default metacat distribution. Other possible settings
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<pre><code>default esa knb2 nceas nrs obfs specnet</code></pre>
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documents. The list can can contain more than one account separated
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by colons.</td>
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<code>uid=jones,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org</code>
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<code>uid=localadmin,o=ucnrs.org</code>
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(either 'oracle', 'postgresql', or 'sqlserver').
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|
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<td><b>Description</b></td>
|
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<td><b>Default value and examples of other values</b></td>
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<td>inst.cgi.dir</td>
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<td>Installation directory for registry CGI scripts</td>
|
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<td>Default:
|
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<code>/var/www/cgi-knb</code>
|
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<td>cgi-prefix</td>
|
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<td> </td>
|
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<td>Default:
|
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<code>http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/cgi-bin</code>
|
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|
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|
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|
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<td>knb-site-url</td>
|
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<td>This is the URL to the web context root for the knb site.
|
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It is used for the qformat=knb skin only.</td>
|
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<td>Default:
|
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|
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<code>http://knb.ecoinformatics.org</code>
|
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|
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|
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|
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<td>forcereplicationwaitingtime</td>
|
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|
|
<td>The waiting time before replication is forced to begin after
|
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uploading a package. The default value should usually suffice.</td>
|
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|
|
<td>Default:
|
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|
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<code>30000</code>
|
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|
|
<code> </code>
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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<td>CVS access to retrieve latest EML. Only used by
|
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|
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developers in building the release.</td>
|
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|
|
<td>Default:
|
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|
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<code><pre>:ext:${env.USER}@cvs.ecoinformatics.org:/cvs</pre></code>
|
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|
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Example:
|
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|
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<code><pre>:ext:myaccount@cvs.ecoinformatics.org:/cvs</pre></code>
|
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|
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</td>
|
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|
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|
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|
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<td>cvsroot-alternate</td>
|
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|
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<td>CVS access to retrieve latest conversion styles. Only used by
|
454 |
|
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developers in building the release.</td>
|
455 |
|
|
<td>Default:
|
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|
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<code><pre>:ext:${env.USER}@cvs.nceas.ucsb.edu:/cvs/pbi</pre></code>
|
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|
|
Example:
|
458 |
|
|
<code><pre>:ext:myaccount@cvs.nceas.ucsb.edu:/cvs/pbi</pre></code>
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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Metacat has a number of additional settable properties in file
|
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|
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<code>metacat/lib/metacat.properties</code>. Under most circumstances,
|
465 |
|
|
you will not need to modify this file because the properties of interest
|
466 |
|
|
to you can be controlled by editing <code>build.properties</code> as
|
467 |
|
|
described above. To learn more about Metacat's additional properties,
|
468 |
|
|
see <a href="./properties.html">Metacat Properties File</a>.
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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Metacat will not function correctly if you do so.
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|
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|
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|
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</table>
|
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|
|
|
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|
|
<table class="tabledefault" width="100%">
|
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|
|
<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p><h2>Compilation and Installation</h2></p></td>
|
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|
|
<tr>
|
482 |
|
|
<td>
|
483 |
|
|
<a name="protocol"></a>
|
484 |
|
|
<p>
|
485 |
|
|
Ant allows compilation and installation to be done in one step.
|
486 |
|
|
Change into the metacat directory and type:
|
487 |
|
|
<pre><b>ant install</b></pre>
|
488 |
|
|
or, if you are upgrading an existing installation, type:
|
489 |
|
|
<pre><b>ant clean upgrade</b></pre>
|
490 |
|
|
<p>
|
491 |
|
|
You should see a bunch of messages telling you the progress of compilation
|
492 |
|
|
and installation. When it is done you should see the message
|
493 |
|
|
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
|
494 |
|
|
and you should be returned to a UNIX command prompt. If you do not see
|
495 |
|
|
the message BUILD SUCCESSFUL then there was an error that you need to
|
496 |
|
|
resolve.
|
497 |
|
|
This may come up if you are logged in as a user that does not have write
|
498 |
|
|
access to one or more of the directories that are listed in the build.xml
|
499 |
|
|
file, or if any of the paths to files are not configured correctly in the
|
500 |
|
|
"config" target.
|
501 |
|
|
</p>
|
502 |
|
|
<p>
|
503 |
|
|
Note: The 'data' directories that are indicated in the 'datafilepath' and
|
504 |
|
|
'inlinedatafilepath' build properties must be writeable
|
505 |
|
|
by user account under which Tomcat runs or you will not be able to upload
|
506 |
|
|
data files to the system.
|
507 |
|
|
</p>
|
508 |
|
|
|
509 |
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|
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|
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You now need to set up the table structure in your database. You can do
|
512 |
|
|
either do this using the ant build system, or by manually running the
|
513 |
|
|
scripts using a sql utility.
|
514 |
|
|
</p>
|
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|
516 |
|
|
will delete all of your data. If you have an existing metacat installation,
|
517 |
|
|
see the instructions for "Upgrading" below.</b></p>
|
518 |
|
|
|
519 |
|
|
<p>To run the scripts using ant, type <code>ant installdb</code>. This does
|
520 |
|
|
not work for postgres, so you'll need to run the xmltables-postgres.sql script
|
521 |
|
|
manually (see next paragraph).
|
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|
523 |
|
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<p>To run the scripts manually, change to the
|
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|
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|
526 |
|
|
SQLPlus. Login as the oracle user that was set up for use with Metacat.
|
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At the SQLPlus prompt type the following: <pre><b>@xmltables.sql;</b></pre>
|
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For postgres, use a command like:
|
529 |
|
|
<code>psql -U metacat -W -h localhost -f build/src/xmltables-postgres.sql metacat</code>
|
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</p>
|
531 |
|
|
<p>Either way,
|
532 |
|
|
you should see a bunch of output showing the creation of the Metacat table
|
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space. The first time you run this script you will get several errors at the
|
534 |
|
|
beginning saying that you cannot drop a table/index/trigger because it
|
535 |
|
|
does not exist. This is normal. Any other errors besides this need to be
|
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resolved before continuing. The script file name for PostgreSQL is
|
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xmltables-postgres.sql and for Microsoft SQL server is
|
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|
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|
540 |
|
|
<p>
|
541 |
|
|
If the script has run correctly you should be able to type
|
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|
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|
544 |
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Name Null? Type
|
545 |
|
|
-------------- ------------ ----------------
|
546 |
|
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DOCID NOT NULL VARCHAR2(250)
|
547 |
|
|
ROOTNODEID NUMBER(20)
|
548 |
|
|
DOCNAME VARCHAR2(100)
|
549 |
|
|
DOCTYPE VARCHAR2(100)
|
550 |
|
|
DOCTITLE VARCHAR2(1000)
|
551 |
|
|
USER_OWNER VARCHAR2(100)
|
552 |
|
|
USER_UPDATED VARCHAR2(100)
|
553 |
|
|
SERVER_LOCATION NUMBER(20)
|
554 |
|
|
REV NUMBER(10)
|
555 |
|
|
DATE_CREATED DATE
|
556 |
|
|
DATE_UPDATED DATE
|
557 |
|
|
PUBLIC_ACCESS NUMBER(1)
|
558 |
|
|
UPDATED NUMBER(1)
|
559 |
|
|
</pre>
|
560 |
|
|
</p>
|
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<p class="header"><h2>Registering schemas and DTDs</h2></p>
|
562 |
|
|
<p>Once the tables have been created, you should also register the Ecological
|
563 |
|
|
Metadata Language (EML) DTDs and schemas. <b>However, note that you should
|
564 |
|
|
NOT do this if you are upgrading an existing installation -- the upgrade
|
565 |
|
|
scripts take care of it for you (see the next section).</b> If you are
|
566 |
|
|
installing new, you can register the schema documents by running:</p>
|
567 |
|
|
<pre><b>ant register-schemas</b></pre>
|
568 |
|
|
<p>This command registers the EML DTDs' and schemas' location in the
|
569 |
|
|
metacat server. Your database username and password have to be set correctly
|
570 |
|
|
for this to work.
|
571 |
|
|
</p>
|
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<p class="header"><h2>Upgrading SQL Scripts</h2></p>
|
573 |
|
|
<p>
|
574 |
|
|
If you have an existing metacat installation, you should not run the install
|
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|
|
script because it will replace all of the older tables with new, empty
|
576 |
|
|
copies of the tables. Thus you would lose your data! Instead, you can
|
577 |
|
|
run some upgrade scripts that will change the table structure as needed for
|
578 |
|
|
the new version. If you are skipping versions, run each upgrade script
|
579 |
|
|
for the intermediate versions as well. Currently the upgrade scripts are:
|
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|
|
</p>
|
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|
|
<ul>
|
582 |
|
|
<li>upgrade-db-to-1.2.sql</li>
|
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|
|
<li>upgrade-db-to-1.3.sql</li>
|
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<li>upgrade-db-to-1.4.sql</li>
|
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|
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|
|
<p>
|
587 |
|
|
So, if you had an existing metacat 1.0 installation and you were upgrading
|
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to 1.4, you would need to run all three scripts in sequence:
|
589 |
|
|
upgrade-db-to-1.2.sql, upgrade-db-to-1.3.sql, and upgrade-db-to-1.4.sql.
|
590 |
|
|
However, if you were starting from a Metacat 1.3.x
|
591 |
|
|
installation, you would only need to run the upgrade-db-to-1.4.sql script.
|
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|
593 |
|
|
</p>
|
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<h2>Restart Tomcat</h2>
|
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|
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<p>
|
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|
597 |
|
|
(and Apache if you have Tomcat integrated with it) must be restarted. To do
|
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this, login as the user that runs your tomcat server (often "tomcat"),
|
599 |
|
|
go to $CATALINA_HOME/bin and type:
|
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|
601 |
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./shutdown.sh
|
602 |
|
|
./startup.sh
|
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|
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In the Tomcat startup messages you should see something in log file like:
|
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|
606 |
|
|
MetacatServlet Initialize
|
607 |
|
|
Context log path="/metadata" :Metacat: init
|
608 |
|
|
MetacatServlet Initialize
|
609 |
|
|
</pre>
|
610 |
|
|
If you see that message Tomcat is successfully loading the Metacat servlet.
|
611 |
|
|
Next, try to run your new servlet. Go to a web browser and type:
|
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jones
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<pre>http://yourserver.yourdomain.com/yourcontext/</pre>
|
613 |
|
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You should substitute your context name for "yourcontext" in the url above.
|
614 |
878
|
berkley
|
If everything is working correctly, you should see a query page followed
|
615 |
880
|
jones
|
by an empty result set. Note that if you do not have Tomcat integrated with
|
616 |
878
|
berkley
|
Apache you will probably have to type
|
617 |
932
|
jones
|
<pre>http://yourserver.yourdomain.com:8080/yourcontext/</pre>
|
618 |
878
|
berkley
|
</p>
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619 |
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</td>
|
620 |
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</tr>
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621 |
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</table>
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622 |
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|
623 |
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</body>
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624 |
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</html>
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