Metacat

      <p>As part of the Metacat setup, a property called

      'inst.cgi.dir' is set, which controls the location the perl

      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>

      <blockquote>

<pre><span class="type">cd</span> $METACAT

<span class="type">sudo ant</span> install-registry

<span class="type">sudo ant</span> insall-ldap

</pre>

</blockquote>

    </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

      create. For this example, we'll use the <pre>nceas</pre>

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

      skin:</p>

      <blockquote>

<pre><span class="type">sudo ant</span> install-skin

</pre>

</blockquote>

      <p>When prompted, type <pre><span class="string">nceas</span></pre>.</p>

    </li>

    <li>

      <p>Metacat uses the 'application.tempDir' property from 

      metacat.properties to set a temporary

      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

      typically it will be either

			<pre><code>www-data</code> or <code>apache</code></pre>. 

			Once finding your appropriate apache

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

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

      <blockquote>

<pre><span class="type">sudo chown</span> apache /tmp/knb

</pre>

</blockquote>

      <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>

      <blockquote>

<pre>sudo touch /var/www/org.ecoinformatics.knb/knb/style/skins/nceas/nceas.lastid

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

</pre>

</blockquote>

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

      site will support.</p>

    </li>

    <li>

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

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

      <blockquote>

<pre>ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-knb/"

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

    AllowOverride None

    Options ExecCGI

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

</Directory>`

</pre>

</blockquote>

      <p>Then reload Apache:</p>

      <blockquote>

<pre>/etc/init.d/httpd reload

</pre>

</blockquote>

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    <li>

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

      <blockquote>

<pre>cd /webapps/knb/style/skins/</pre>

<pre>find . -name "*.cfg" -exec chmod 600 {} \;</pre>

<pre>find . -name "*.cfg" -exec chown apache {} \;</pre>

</blockquote>

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

<p>         "apache" user is the one who runs httpd server.</p>

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

      from web browsers. </p>

    </li>

    <li>

<pre>http://localhost/cgi-bin/register-dataset.cgi?cfg=nceas

<pre>rpm -i oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.3-1.i386.rpm

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>mkdir -p /usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.3/network/admin/ &amp;&amp; cd !$

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