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== Metadot 6.4.5.4 for SME Server 7 ==
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== Maintainer ==
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'''This How to is currently under construction'''
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[mailto:russell@fixitcomputers.com.au?subject=Metadot Russell Taihn]
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== Description ==
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'''Metadot Portal Server'''
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[http://www.metadot.com/ Metadot] is a leading open source portal software (GPL) used to create websites, intranets, extranets, project and team spaces
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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.
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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!
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It runs primarily on Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl and supports Sun Solaris, Windows OSes and Oracle database.
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russell@fixitcomputers.com.au
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[http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=36617.0 Forum Discussion]
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will continue soon
      
  mkdir -p /tmp/metadot
 
  mkdir -p /tmp/metadot
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  tar xvzf Metadot6.4.5.4.tar.gz
 
  tar xvzf Metadot6.4.5.4.tar.gz
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  mv /tmp/metadot/metadot/* /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html
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  mv /tmp/metadot/metadot /opt
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chown -R www.www /opt/metadot
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chmod 750 /opt/metadot
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  mv /tmp/metadot/metadot/.cvsignore /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html
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  chmod 640 /opt/metadot/etc/metadot.conf
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== Setup Dag Repositories ==
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mv /opt/metadot/html/* /opt/metadot/
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  /sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set dag repository \
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  cd /opt/metadot/metadot
Name 'Dag - EL4' \
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BaseURL 'http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$basearch/dag' \
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EnableGroups no \
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GPGCheck yes \
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GPGKey http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt \
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Visible yes \
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Exclude freetype,htop,iptraf,rsync,syslinux \
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status disabled
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chmod 755 *.pl
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expand-template /etc/yum.conf
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== Setup Dag Repositories ==
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You need to activate the [[Dag]] reposity before installing this contrib.<br />
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see [[dag|dag repository]] <br />
    
== Installing Required Modules ==
 
== Installing Required Modules ==
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  yum -y --enablerepo=updates --enablerepo=addons install mod_perl gd ImageMagick ImageMagick-perl netpbm
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  yum --enablerepo=updates --enablerepo=addons install mod_perl gd ImageMagick ImageMagick-perl netpbm
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  config setprop modPerl status enabled
 
  config setprop modPerl status enabled
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  signal-event post-upgrade
 
  signal-event post-upgrade
    
== Installing Required Perl Modules ==
 
== Installing Required Perl Modules ==
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  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
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  yum install\
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--enablerepo=base \
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--enablerepo=updates \
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--enablerepo=addons \
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--enablerepo=dag install \
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perl-GD perl-GD-Graph perl-GD-Graph3d perl-GD-Text-Util \
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perl-Date-Pcalc perl-Email-Valid perl-Apache-DBI \
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perl-AppConfig perl-Archive-Tar perl-Archive-Zip \
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perl-Bit-Vector perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI perl-Compress-Zlib \
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perl-Data-Compare perl-Date-Calc perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig \
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perl-File-Find-Rule perl-File-HomeDir perl-HTML-Format \
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perl-HTML-Template perl-HTML-Tree perl-Image-Base \
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perl-Image-Size perl-Lingua-EN-NameParse \
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perl-LWP-UserAgent-Determined perl-Mail-POP3Client \
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perl-MailTools perl-HTTP-BrowserDetect perl-HTTP-Server-Simple \
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perl-HTTP-Request-Form perl-HTTP-DAV \
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perl-MIME-tools perl-Number-Compare perl-Number-Format \
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perl-OLE-Storage_Lite perl-Parse-RecDescent perl-Pod-POM \
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perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel perl-Template-Toolkit \
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perl-Test-Builder-Tester perl-Test-Manifest perl-Test-SimpleUnit \
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perl-Text-Autoformat perl-Text-CSV_XS perl-Unicode-String \
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perl-XML-Dumper perl-XML-RSS perl-XML-Simple
    
== Create Database ==
 
== Create Database ==
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  cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/default_data/
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  cd /opt/metadot/default_data
    
  mysql -uroot mysql < createdbanduser4x.sql
 
  mysql -uroot mysql < createdbanduser4x.sql
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  mysql -umetadot -p'''yourpassword''' metadotdb < sampledata.sql
 
  mysql -umetadot -p'''yourpassword''' metadotdb < sampledata.sql
      
== Create a Template Fragement ==
 
== Create a Template Fragement ==
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  #Metadot
 
  #Metadot
 
   
 
   
ServerName www.fixitcomputers.com.au
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    ServerName yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot "/home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/metadot/"
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Alias /images/ /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/images/
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    DocumentRoot         /opt/metadot/metadot
Alias /js/ /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/js/
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    Alias /metadot /opt/metadot/metadot
Alias /index.pl /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/metadot/index.pl
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    Alias /images/ /opt/metadot/images/
Alias /public/  /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/sitedata/public/
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    Alias /js/ /opt/metadot/js/
Alias /skins/    /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/sitedata/skins/
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    Alias /index.pl /opt/metadot/metadot/index.pl
Alias /htmlarea3/ /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/js/htmlarea3/
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    Alias /public/  /opt/metadot/sitedata/public/
Alias /private/  /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/sitedata/private/
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    Alias /skins/    /opt/metadot/sitedata/skins/
Alias /userchannel.pl /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/metadot/userchannel.pl
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    Alias /htmlarea3/ /opt/metadot/js/htmlarea3/
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    Alias /private/  /opt/metadot/sitedata/private/
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    Alias /userchannel.pl /opt/metadot/metadot/userchannel.pl
 
   
 
   
  <Directory "/home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribay/html/metadot">
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  <Directory /opt/metadot>
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
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    Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews +ExecCGI
  AllowOverride All
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    AllowOverride All
SetHandler cgi-script
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    allow from all
PerlHandler speedy::Registry
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    AddHandler  cgi-script .pl
PerlSendHeader On
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    PerlHandler speedy::Registry
Options +ExecCGI
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    PerlSendHeader     On
AddType application/.html .pl .pm .cgi
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    DirectoryIndex     index.pl
DirectoryIndex index.pl
   
  </Directory>
 
  </Directory>
 
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Save by pressing Ctrl x, press y to save changes and press enter
 
Save by pressing Ctrl x, press y to save changes and press enter
    
  expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf  
 
  expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf  
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  /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-admin restart
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  /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart
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== Modify Metadot configuration file ==
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Metadot uses a configuration file that associates database information with the web server that you are running. It is located: '''''/opt/metadot/etc'''''
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cd /opt/metadot/etc
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Edit Metadot.conf
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you will need to modify these lines in the metadot.conf file to match the location where you install metadot on your server.
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''' metadot.conf'''
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Line 16 change the password created in the mysql setup. pass = '''yourpassword,'''
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Line 34 change /opt/metadot/sitedata/public
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Line 108 change to /opt/metadot/sitedata/skins
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== Performance configuration ==
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{{Warning box|If you don't do this configuration, your metadot site will be extremely poor.}}
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cd /opt/metadot/metadot
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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/
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index.pl
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md_clean.pl
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metadotd.pl
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soap.pl
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startup.pl
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userchannel.pl
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smoke
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'''Example'''
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<nowiki>#!/usr/bin/speedy</nowiki>
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== Testing the installation ==
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cd /opt/metadot/metadot
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Next, run the index.pl file on the command line :
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perl index.pl
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if no errors go to next step
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Now bring up the Metadot start page by accessing it from your web browser:
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http://type.your.domain.com or http://type.your.domain.com/metadot/
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== Metadot Aministration Information ==
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The default out-of-the box user name & password for Metadot is admin and the password is "123456".
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In your browser, go to the Metadot home page. In the upper right corner click on "Login".
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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.
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'''[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']'''
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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.
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Change the password for the Admin user (the site's admin account). Do this in the following manner:
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• Log in as admin, as described above.
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• Go to "Manage..."->"My Profile". This will take you to the edit profile page for the admin user.
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• Change the admin password and save.
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'''Dont change the url in admin'''
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also, you will need to modify the system params
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click on manage and select config from the drop down selection,
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[[Image:Metadot_config.png]]
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then select, Modify next to the System params as seen in screen shot
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[[Image:Metadot_params.png]]
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scroll down untill you find
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Absolute path for private file upload directory
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and change to /opt/metadot/sitedata/private
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scroll down to bottom of page and press save
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Your Metadot Portal is now ready for to use, '''Enjoy'''
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== Note ==
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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
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edit createdbanduser4x.sql and change create database metadotdb; to create database metadotvhdb; save changes
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mysql -uroot mysql < createdbanduser4x.sql
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mysql -e "grant all privileges on metadotvhdb.* to metadotvh@localhost identified by 'yourpassword'"
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mysql -e "flush privileges"
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mysql -umetadotvh -pyourpassword metadotvhdb < sampledata.sql
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/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-e-smith  restart
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[mailto:russell@fixitcomputers.com.au?subject=Metadot Russell Taihn]
       
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