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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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<pre><span class="type">mkdir</span> metacat &amp;&amp; cd metacat 
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<span class="type">wget</span> http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/dist/metacat-src-1.8.0.zip
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<span class="type">unzip</span> metacat-src-1.8.0.zip
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<span class="type">cd</span> metacat-1.8.0
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<span class="type">export</span> METACAT=`pwd`
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      <p>Build the Metacat Perl client library:</p>
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<pre><span class="type">cd</span> $METACAT/src/perl/Metacat
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<span class="type">perl</span> Makefile.PL
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<span class="type">sudo make</span>
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<span class="type">sudo make install</span>
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      <p>Install the system libraries needed. On Redhat:
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<pre><span class="type">sudo yum install</span> gcc libxml2-devel libxslt-devel ant -y
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<span class="type">sudo apt-get install</span> ant libappconfig-perl libxml-libxml-perl libxml-libxslt-perl \
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libterm-readkey-perl libxml-dom-perl libsoap-lite-perl -y
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      <blockquote><pre><span class="type">sudo cpan</span> -i Config::Properties</pre></blockquote>
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      <p>Install CPAN, which allows us to install the Perl
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      Metacat. If asked to manually configure cpan, type 'no' and
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<pre><span class="type">sudo yum install</span> perl-CPAN
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      <p>You should now see a prompt which looks like:</p>
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<pre><span class="string">cpan&gt;</span>
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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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<pre>install Bundle::CPAN
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      <p>Install the required modules. Here we're installing an old
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install URI
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			<p>Double check that Metacat's temporary folder, <code><span class="string">application.tempDir</span></code>, is writable by the apache user, usually <code><span class="string">www-data</span></code> or <code><span class="string">apache</span></code>.
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      <p>Now visit the resulting URL:</p>
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<pre>http://localhost/knb/cgi-bin/register-dataset.cgi?cfg=nceas
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      <p>If everything worked correctly, you should see a page like
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      "Registry Login Page" /></p>
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  <h2 id="installing-the-nceas-registry">Installing the NCEAS
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  <p>These are special instructions required for the NCEAS skin to
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  get a current projects list from the AdminDB, and can safely be
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      <p>Download and install the Oracle Instant Client RPMs. These
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<pre>nceas_db = //hyperion.nceas.ucsb.edu:1521/nceasp.nceas.ucsb.edu
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