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Prerequisites

Your web server should meet the following criteria before installing the frontend VCL code:

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Installing VCL Frontend Web Code

1. If you haven't already done so, download and extract a copy of the latest release. There is a link to it under the Project Resources section on our wiki home page. Look for "Current version".
2. copy the "web" directory to a location checkout web code somewhere under the web root of your web server:

   Code Block
   svncp co-r https:web/ /svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vcl/trunk/web/ vclvar/www/html/vcl

3. modify vcl/.ht-inc/secrets.php
   • set $vclhost, $vcldb, $vclusername, and $vclpassword to match your database setup
   • create random passwords for $mcryptkey, $mcryptiv, and $pemkey - $mcryptiv must be 8 hex characters
4. run the genkeys.sh script from within vcl/.ht-inc and give it $pemkey from secrets.php as the passphrase (3 times, copy/paste is a good idea here)
5. modify vcl/.ht-inc/conf.php to match your site - COOKIEDOMAIN needs to be the domain name your web server is using, or left blank if you are accessing it by IP only.
   NOTE: There is a misconfiguration in conf.php in VCL 2.1. To correct it, change affiliationid for "Local Account" in the $authMechs array from 4 to 1.
6. *NOTICE* JpGraph 2.x is no longer available. JpGraph 3.x is released under a dual license. QPL 1.0 (Qt Free Licensee). Free for non-commercial, open-source or educational use (JpGraph Professional License for commercial use). If you are planning to use this for commercial use and don't want to pay for JpGraph, you can safely skip this step with the only side effect of not being able to display a few graphs on the statistics page.
   Download JpGraph from http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/jpdownload.php
   • For PHP5, download the 3.x series, extract it, and copy the src directory from it to vcl/.ht-inc/jpgraph
7. download version 0.4.0 of Dojo Toolkit: http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-0.4.0/dojo-0.4.0-ajax.tar.gz
   • extract it under the vcl directory and rename "dojo-0.4.0-ajax" to "dojoAjax"
8. download version 1.1.0 of Dojo Toolkit: http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.1.0/dojo-release-1.1.0.tar.gz
   • extract it under the vcl directory and rename "dojo-release-1.1.0" to "dojo"
9. go into the themes directory (vcl/themes) and run "./copydojocss.sh default" to copy parts of dojo's css into the "default" theme
10. if you want to be able to edit any of the documentation that comes bundled with the vcl web code, download fckeditor from http://www.fckeditor.net/download (most people can skip this step)
    • extract it under the vcl directory
11. open a browser and open the testsetup.php page
    • i.e. if you set up your site to be https://my.server.org/vcl/ open https://my.server.org/vcl/testsetup.php
12. debug any issues reported by testsetup.php
13. now, open the index.php page in your browser
14. select Local Account and use 'admin' as the user and 'adminVc1passw0rd' as the password
15. click the "Management Nodes" link
16. enter the hostname and IP of your management node
17. click Add
18. fill in "Install Path" - this is parent directory under which image files will be stored
19. enter "/etc/vcl/vcl.key" for "End Node SSH Identity Key Files"
20. click "Confirm Management Node"
21. click Submit
22. click the "Management Nodes" link
23. select "Edit Management Node Grouping"
24. click Submit
25. select the checkbox for your management node
26. click Submit
27. click "Manage Computers"
28. select the "Add Single Computer" radio button
29. click the Submit
30. fill in Hostname, IP Address, owner (admin@Local), RAM, Proc Speed, Network Speed, select "blade" for Type, select "xCAT 1.x Provisioning" for "Provisioning Engine", and click the checkbox under "allcomputers", and "newimages"
        Note: if using using vmware, select "virtualmachine" for Type and "VMWare Server Provisioning" for "Provisioning Engine"
31. click Confirm Computer
32. click Submit (don't worry about the fact that the computer you just added isn't listed after clicking Submit)
33. after you've configured your image library and your management node has started checking in, you should be able to make a reservation

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1. fill in the necessary information in vcl/.ht-inc/conf.php
2. add an entry to the affiliation table and use the id for that entry as 'affiliationid' for your new entry in vcl/.ht-inc/conf.php
3. uncomment the 'require_once(".ht-inc/authmethods/ldapauth.php");' line in in vcl/.ht-inc/conf.php

Setting Time Zone

1. Edit /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc/php5extras.php to indicate the correct time zone:
   date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
2. Edit /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc/requests.php (line 3301 currently) to indicate the correct time zone (purely cosmetic):
   print "<small>(Pacific Time Zone)</small>";