Metacat

  <style type="text/css">

/*<![CDATA[*/

  ol.decimal { list-style-type: decimal; }

  /*]]>*/

  </style>

  <ol class="decimal">

    <li>

      <p>Download and extract the Metacat release:</p>

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

      <p>Build the Metacat Perl client library:</p>

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

</pre>

	  You will need to install one package using cpan

</p>

    </li>

      dependencies for the registry and account management parts of

      Metacat. If asked to manually configure cpan, type 'no' and

      CPAN will be setup with its default values.</p>

</pre>

      <p>You should now see a prompt which looks like:</p>

</pre>

      <p>The rest of the commands will assume you're inside of

      CPAN. Let's get the most recent version of the CPAN software.

      Just press return after any prompts you recieve during this

      process.</p>

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

      LibXSLT, as the current one requires a newer libxslt than is

      available on Redhat 4 & 5. Again, just answer 'yes' to

      any questions.</p>

install CGI

install CGI::SEssion

install LWP::UserAgent

install Template 

install URI

install MSERGEANT/XML-LibXSLT-1.58.tar.gz

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

      scripts will be installed into, with a default of

      '/var/www/cgi-knb'. To install the registry and the account

      manager to this folder we'll run ant:</p>

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

      <p>A registry instance can support one or more skins. Skins

      provide a mechanism for giving a custom look to your Metacat

      installation, but require integration work to initially

      skin provided with Metacat. First, we'll want to install the

      skin:</p>

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

      space to store uploaded files. If you'd like your registry to

      allow file uploads, we'll need to make sure Apache can write

      to it. The apache user varies from machine to machine, but

      user, we'll want to change ownership of a few files, here

      using the user <code>apache</code>:</p>

</pre>

      <p>Each skin has a 'lastid' file, which controls which the

      accession numbers metacat generates. As with the temporary

      folder, we'll want the registry to be able to write to this

      file, replacing the skin name with the skin you're planning

      on using:</p>

sudo chown apache /var/www/org.ecoinformatics.knb/knb/style/skins/nceas/nceas.lastid

</pre>

      <p>You'll need to have one lastid file for each skin your

      site will support.</p>

    <li>

      <p>Configure Apache to serve up the pages we've just

      configured. In your httpd.conf or equivalent, add:</p>

<Directory "/var/www/cgi-knb">

    AllowOverride None

    Options ExecCGI

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

</Directory>`

</pre>

      <p>Then reload Apache:</p>

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

      <p>Change owner and access permission of some credential files:</p>

<p>Note: "/webapps/knb" is subject to change base on your configuration.</p>

      <p>Those commands will make the files which contain credentials are not accessible

      from web browsers. </p>

    <li>

      <p>Now visit the resulting URL:</p>

</pre>

      <p>If everything worked correctly, you should see a page like

      this: <img src="images/registry-login.jpg" alt=

      can be obtained from the <a href=

      "http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/htdocs/linuxsoft.html">

      oracle website</a>.</p>

rpm -i oracle-instantclient-devel-10.2.0.3-1.i386.rpm

rpm -i oracle-instantclient-sqlplus-10.2.0.3-1.i386.rpm

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

      Oracle to locate the server we're connecting to. In this

      example, we'll copy it from a remote location:</p>

scp walbridge@knb.ecoinformatics.org:/usr/lib/oracle/10.1.0.4/network/admin/tnsnames.ora .

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

      <p>The AdminDB is accessed via Perl, so install the needed

      Oracle driver using CPAN:</p>

install DBI

install DBD::Oracle

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

      <p>Now we can install the AdminDB module itself:</p>

export CVSROOT=:ext:walbridge@cvs.nceas.ucsb.edu:/cvsnceas

cvs co admindb

cd admindb/perl/NCEAS/AdminDB

perl Makefile.PL

make

sudo make install

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

      <p>Finally, set the correct properties in the

nceas_db_user = admowner

nceas_db_password = NCEAS_DB_READ_PASSWORD_HERE

</pre>

    </li>

    <li>

      now show a complete list of projects: <img src=

      "images/registry-nceas-projects.png" alt=

      "NCEAS Project list" /></p>