Metadot
Metadot 6.4.5.4 for SME Server 7
This How to is currently under construction
will continue soon
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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/* /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
mv /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/html/* /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html
cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/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 /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.yourdomain.com 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-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: /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/etc
cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/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 /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/sitedata/public Line 108 change to /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/sitedata/skins
WARNING Performance configuration
If you don't do this configuration, your metadot site will be extremely poor.
cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/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 /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/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/ibay/
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
Russell Taihn email: russell@fixitcomputers.com.au