Metadot

Metadot 6.4.5.4 for SME Server 7

This How to is currently under construction

will continue soon

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

Email: 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/* /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html

mv /tmp/metadot/metadot/.cvsignore /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html

chown -R www.www /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html

chmod 750 /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/

chmod 640 /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/etc/metadot.conf

cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/metadot

chmod 755 *.pl

Setup Dag Repositories

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set dag repository \
Name 'Dag - EL4' \
BaseURL 'http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$basearch/dag' \ 
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck yes \
GPGKey http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt \ 
Visible yes \
Exclude freetype,htop,iptraf,rsync,syslinux \
status disabled

expand-template /etc/yum.conf

Installing Required Modules

yum -y --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 -y

Create Database

cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/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 www.fixitcomputers.com.au
DocumentRoot "/home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/metadot/"
Alias /images/ /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/images/
Alias /js/ /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/js/
Alias /index.pl /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/metadot/index.pl
Alias /public/   /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/sitedata/public/
Alias /skins/    /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/sitedata/skins/
Alias /htmlarea3/ /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/js/htmlarea3/
Alias /private/  /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/sitedata/private/
Alias /userchannel.pl /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/metadot/userchannel.pl

<Directory	"/home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/metadot">
	Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
 	AllowOverride All
	SetHandler	cgi-script
	PerlHandler	speedy::Registry
	PerlSendHeader	On
	Options		+ExecCGI
	AddType application/.html .pl .pm .cgi
	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-admin restart

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