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   These installation instructions are meant for a systems administrator/DBA or someone
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   who is an advanced computer user.  They are NOT meant for the average computer user.
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   Please realize that by executing these instructions, you may have to trouble shoot
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   many advanced issues yourself.
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<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p>Pre-Installation</p></td>
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  <p class="header">Minimum Requirements</p> 
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   Installing Metacat requires a server running an SQL92 compliant database
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   (Oracle 8i recommended) with at least 128MB RAM, and a Pentium III class
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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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   work on other UNIX type environments, however this has not been tested.
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  <p class = "header">Additional Required Software</p>
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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)</li>
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     <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html">Apache Jakarta-Ant</a>
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     <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html">Apache Jakarta-Tomcat</a>
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       <p class="emphasis">Note: For a more robust web serving environment, Apache web server should
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       be installed along with Tomcat and the two should be integrated
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       as described on the Apache web site.</p>
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  <p class="header">Oracle 8i</p>
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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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   <pre>lsnrctl start</pre>
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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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   correctly set.
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  <p class="header">Ant</p>
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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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   Should be installed on the system and the "ant" executable shell script 
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   should be available in the users path.
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  <p class="header">Tomcat</p>
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    Install tomcat into the directory of your choice. The directory in which 
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    you install Tomcat itself will be referred to as the "{Tomcat install 
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    directory}".  This install assumes Tomcat version 3.1.  The Tomcat configuration
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    will be slightly different depending on what version of Tomcat you are running.
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    You must now set up your servlet context.  Change to the {Tomcat install 
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    directory}/conf.  Edit the tomcat.conf file.  Find a line that looks like:
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    <pre>ApJServMount /examples /root</pre>  
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    <pre>ApJServMount /metadata /root</pre>
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    Save tomcat.conf.
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   Edit the server.xml file.  Go to the bottom of the file.  Find the line that
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   <pre>&lt;Context path="/examples" docbase="/webapps/examples" debug="0" reloadable="true" &gt;
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   &lt;/Context&gt;</pre>
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   Directly below these lines enter the following:
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   <pre>&lt;Context path="/metadata" docbase="/opt/tomcat/webapps/metadata" debug="0" reloadable="true" &gt;
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   &lt;/Context&gt;</pre>
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   After setting up Tomcat, you must make a slight modification to the startup
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   script.  Tomcat needs to know about special protocol handlers that Metacat
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   uses for its URLs.  Find the line in the tomcat.sh file that says 
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    if [ "$TOMCAT_OPTS" = "" ] ; then
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    TOMCAT_OPTS="-Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=edu.ucsb.nceas.protocols"
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    if [ "$TOMCAT_OPTS" = "" ] ; then
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   tomcat or the parameter will not be set correctly and some features of
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   Your servlet context should now be setup.  The next step is giving Tomcat
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   something to run in that context (i.e. Metacat).
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<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p>Configuring the Server for Metacat</p></td>
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   Once all of the prerequisite software is installed as described above, 
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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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   <a href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/xmltodb/">CVS</a>
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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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   xmltodb directory and edit the file called "build.xml".  The top of a 
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      &lt;property name="jdbc-connect" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@dev.nceas.ucsb.edu:1521:exp"/&gt;
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      &lt;property name="installdir" value="/opt/tomcat/webapps/metadata" /&gt;
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      &lt;property name="name" value="metacat"/&gt;
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      &lt;property name="Name" value="MetaCat"/&gt;
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      &lt;property name="release" value="1.0.1"/&gt;
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      &lt;property name="web-base-url" value="http://knb.ecoinformatics.org"/&gt;
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      &lt;property name="html-path" value="/metadata"/&gt;
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   The jdbc-connect parameter is the JDBC connection string needed to connect 
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     DOCTYPE                      VARCHAR2(100)
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     DOCTITLE                     VARCHAR2(1000)
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  <a name="protocol"></a>
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   Now we are ready to finish setting up Tomcat by creating the protocol.jar
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   <pre>ant install</pre>
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  the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) DTDs. This process is done most
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  metacat server.  Your database username and password have to be set correctly
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