Metadot

Metadot 6.4.5.4 for SME Server 7

This How to is currently under construction

will continue soon

Maintainer

Russell Taihn

Description

Metadot Portal Server

Metadot is a leading open source portal software (GPL) used to create websites, intranets, extranets, project and team spaces

Metadot Portal Server is a leading open source portal system. Its ease of use allows non technical people to create very powerful websites and portals just with the clicks of a mouse. Its architecture makes it extremely easy to customize and deploy. It is available for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It provides collaboration, content management, as well as My News Page (like My Yahoo) and online database applications. Typically it is used to create web portals, intranets, extranets, organization and project websites.

When it was first released in April 2000, it revolutionized the way complex websites are built by giving easy-to-use tools to non-technical users allowing them to create powerful database-backed websites without having to involve a webmaster or the IT department!

It runs primarily on Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl and supports Sun Solaris, Windows OSes and Oracle database.

NOTE, for this howto I am using youribay as an example, replace youribay with your own choice

russell@fixitcomputers.com.au

mkdir -p /tmp/metadot

cd /tmp/metadot

wget http://download.metadot.com/Metadot6.4.5.4.tar.gz

tar xvzf Metadot6.4.5.4.tar.gz

mv /tmp/metadot/metadot /opt

chown -R www.www /opt/metadot

chmod 750 /opt/metadot

chmod 640 /opt/metadot/etc/metadot.conf

mv /opt/metadot/html/* /opt/metadot/

cd /opt/metadot/metadot

chmod 755 *.pl

Setup Dag Repositories

The following command will configure the Dag repository on SME Server. EDIT NOT COMPLETE!

To create an entry in the database for the epel repository we open put the following commands in a terminal window or in a shell window:

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set epel repository \

Name 'SME Server - epel' \
BaseURL 'http://<http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/$basearch' \
EnableGroups yes \
GPGCheck yes \
Visible no \
status disabled

To enable the changes:

    signal-event yum-modify

Just to be sure, give yum a fresh start:

    yum clean all

After adding it to the database we have to update the changes to the configuration file:

signal-event yum-modify

Installing Required Modules

yum --enablerepo=updates --enablerepo=addons install mod_perl gd ImageMagick ImageMagick-perl netpbm

config setprop modPerl status enabled

signal-event post-upgrade

Installing Required Perl Modules

yum --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=updates --enablerepo=addons --enablerepo=dag install perl-GD perl-GD-Graph perl-GD-Graph3d perl-GD-Text-Util perl-Date-Pcalc perl-Email-Valid perl-Apache-DBI perl-AppConfig perl-Archive-Tar perl-Archive-Zip perl-Bit-Vector perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI perl-Compress-Zlib perl-Data-Compare perl-Date-Calc perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig perl-File-Find-Rule perl-File-HomeDir perl-HTML-Format perl-HTML-Template perl-HTML-Tree perl-Image-Base perl-Image-Size perl-Lingua-EN-NameParse perl-LWP-UserAgent-Determined perl-Mail-POP3Client perl-MailTools perl-HTTP-BrowserDetect perl-HTTP-Server-Simple perl-HTTP-Request-Form perl-HTTP-DAV perl-MIME-tools perl-Number-Compare perl-Number-Format perl-OLE-Storage_Lite perl-Parse-RecDescent perl-Pod-POM perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel perl-Template-Toolkit perl-Test-Builder-Tester perl-Test-Manifest perl-Test-Simple perl-Test-SimpleUnit perl-Text-Autoformat perl-Text-CSV_XS perl-Unicode-String perl-XML-Dumper perl-XML-RSS perl-XML-Simple

Create Database

cd /opt/metadot/default_data

mysql -uroot mysql < createdbanduser4x.sql

mysql -e "grant all privileges on metadotdb.* to metadot@localhost identified by 'yourpassword'"

mysql -e "flush privileges"

mysql -umetadot -pyourpassword metadotdb < sampledata.sql

Create a Template Fragement

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/

cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/

pico 87Metadot

#Metadot

   ServerName yourdomain.com
    
   DocumentRoot         /opt/metadot/metadot
   Alias /metadot /opt/metadot/metadot
   Alias /images/ /opt/metadot/images/
   Alias /js/ /opt/metadot/js/
   Alias /index.pl /opt/metadot/metadot/index.pl
   Alias /public/   /opt/metadot/sitedata/public/
   Alias /skins/    /opt/metadot/sitedata/skins/
   Alias /htmlarea3/ /opt/metadot/js/htmlarea3/
   Alias /private/  /opt/metadot/sitedata/private/
   Alias /userchannel.pl /opt/metadot/metadot/userchannel.pl

<Directory /opt/metadot>
   Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews +ExecCGI
   AllowOverride All
   allow from all
   AddHandler  cgi-script .pl
   PerlHandler speedy::Registry
   PerlSendHeader      On
   DirectoryIndex      index.pl
</Directory>

Save by pressing Ctrl x, press y to save changes and press enter

expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

Adding index.pl to DirectoryIndex

modify 50DirectoryIndex00 to include index.pl

cp /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/50DirectoryIndex00 /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/

cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

pico 50DirectoryIndex00

Add index.pl

# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index.  Separate multiple entries with spaces.

DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.shtml index.cgi index.pl

Save by pressing Ctrl x, press y to save changes and press enter

expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

Modify Metadot configuration file

Metadot uses a configuration file that associates database information with the web server that you are running. It is located: /opt/metadot/etc

cd /opt/metadot/etc

Edit Metadot.conf you will need to modify these lines in the metadot.conf file to match the location where you install metadot on your server.

 metadot.conf
Line 16 change the password created in the mysql setup. pass = yourpassword,
Line 34 change /opt/metadot/sitedata/public
Line 108 change to /opt/metadot/sitedata/skins

WARNING Performance configuration

If you don't do this configuration, your metadot site will be extremely poor.

cd /opt/metadot/metadot

edit index.pl and change the top line from #!/usr/bin/perl to #!/usr/bin/speedy. This needs to be done to all .pl files in the metadot/

Example

#!/usr/bin/speedy

Testing the installation

cd /opt/metadot/metadot

Next, run the index.pl file on the command line :

perl index.pl

if no errors go to next step

Now bring up the Metadot start page by accessing it from your web browser:

http://type.your.domain.com or http://type.your.domain.com/metadot/

Metadot Aministration Information

The default out-of-the box user name & password for Metadot is admin and the password is "123456". In your browser, go to the Metadot home page. In the upper right corner click on "Login".

This will take you to the login screen. Log in as 'admin' using the default '123456' password. This will take you back to the main screen.

[Note: If you are using the Konqueror web browser, then it has been reported that you may see an error screen the first time you log in. If you see this, then just go back and then click on 'Home']

Go to the bottom of the page and click "Enable Editing". This will enter edit mode, which will cause the page's edit controls to become visible. Change the password for the Admin user (the site's admin account). Do this in the following manner:

• Log in as admin, as described above.

• Go to "Manage..."->"My Profile". This will take you to the edit profile page for the admin user.

• Change the admin password and save.

Dont change the url in admin

also, you will need to modify the system params

click on manage and select config from the drop down selection,

then select, Modify next to the System params as seen in screen shot

scroll down untill you find

Absolute path for private file upload directory

and change to /opt/metadot/sitedata/private

scroll down to bottom of page and press save

Your Metadot Portal is now ready for to use, Enjoy

Note

I will add instruction on how to add a virtual host for Metadot soon, some hints if you are attempting virtual host, you will need to modify createdbanduser4x.sql & sampledata.sql found in the /metadot/default_data

edit createdbanduser4x.sql and change create database metadotdb; to create database metadotvhdb; save changes

mysql -uroot mysql < createdbanduser4x.sql

mysql -e "grant all privileges on metadotvhdb.* to metadotvh@localhost identified by 'yourpassword'"

mysql -e "flush privileges"

mysql -umetadotvh -pyourpassword metadotvhdb < sampledata.sql

Russell Taihn email: russell@fixitcomputers.com.au