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        <p class="emphasis">Installing the Metacat Registry</p>
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      <td>Author: Shaun Walbridge<br />
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      Date: 06/06/2008<br /></td>
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  <h1 id="registry-installation">Registry Installation</h1>
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  <h2 id="whats-it-for">What's it for?</h2>
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  <p>The Metacat Registry provides an easy mechanism to create and
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  edit simple EML metadata documents, and accounts for your Metacat
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  users. It is an optional component of Metacat, but is useful when
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  you need very low barriers to creating simple EML, or have users
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  unable to use Morpho. The LDAP account management interface is
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  useful if you are authenticating users against LDAP, and need to
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  provide a basic mechanism for managing user accounts.</p>
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  <h2 id="installation-instructions">Installation Instructions</h2>
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  <p>The Registry can be installed on any machine Metacat runs on,
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  but does require additional legwork to get it installed. It
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  requires that Metacat is set deployed behind Apache, as our
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  recommended installation platform, and the instructions assume
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  Apache is already installed and working correctly.</p>
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  <h2 id="steps">Steps</h2>
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      <p>Download and extract the Metacat release:</p>
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<code>mkdir metacat &amp;&amp; cd metacat 
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wget http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/dist/metacat-src-1.8.0.zip
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unzip metacat-src-1.8.0.zip
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cd metacat-1.8.0
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export METACAT=`pwd`
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      <p>Build the Metacat Perl client library:</p>
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<code>cd $METACAT/src/perl/Metacat
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perl Makefile.PL
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make
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sudo make install
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      <p>Install the system libraries needed. On Redhat:</p>
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<code>sudo yum install gcc libxml2-devel libxslt-devel ant -y
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      <p>On Debian:</p>
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<code>sudo apt-get install ant -y
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      <p>If on Debian, skip ahead to step 7.</p>
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      <p>Install CPAN, which allows us to install the Perl
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      dependencies for the registry and account management parts of
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      Metacat. If asked to manually configure cpan, type 'no' and
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<code>sudo yum install perl-CPAN
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sudo cpan
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      <p>You should now see a prompt which looks like:</p>
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<code>cpan&gt; 
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      <p>The rest of the commands will assume you're inside of
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      CPAN. Let's get the most recent version of the CPAN software.
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<code>install Bundle::CPAN
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reload cpan`
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      <p>Install the required modules. Here we're installing an old
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<code>install AutoLoader
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install URI
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      <p>As part of the Metacat setup, a property called
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      <p>A registry instance can support one or more skins. Skins
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      provide a mechanism for giving a custom look to your Metacat
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      installation, but require integration work to initially
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      create. For this example, we'll use the <code>nceas</code>
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      skin provided with Metacat. First, we'll want to install the
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<code>sudo ant install-skin
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      <p>When prompted, type <code>nceas</code>.</p>
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      <p>Metacat uses the 'temp-dir' property to set a temporary
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      space to store uploaded files. If you'd like your registry to
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      allow file uploads, we'll need to make sure Apache can write
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      to it. The apache user varies from machine to machine, but
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      typically it will be either <code>www-data</code> or
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      <code>apache</code>. Once finding your appropriate apache
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      user, we'll want to change ownership of a few files, here
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<code>sudo chown apache /tmp/knb
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      <p>Each skin has a 'lastid' file, which controls which the
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      accession numbers metacat generates. As with the temporary
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<code>sudo touch /var/www/org.ecoinformatics.knb/knb/style/skins/nceas/nceas.lastid
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      <p>Configure Apache to serve up the pages we've just
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<p>Note: "/webapps/knb" is subject to change base on your configuration.</p>
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<p>         "apache" user is the one who runs httpd server.</p
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  <p>These are special instructions required for the NCEAS skin to
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      <p>Download and install the Oracle Instant Client RPMs. These
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  <p>Redhat based, tested on Centos 5</p>
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