rb4178

I am trying to install elemental clinic on my fedora core 6 box. I need some help trying to get the software. Here are the directions for how to install it on my box but I am still having problems installing it.

https://prefect.opensourcery.com:444...k/docs/INSTALL

I would appreciate some help so if you have any ideas please let me know.

wmorri

Welcome to TSF!!

Hi,

The first thing that you need to do is to make sure that you have to following things installed and up-to-date: PostgreSQL 8.2, Apache, Perl, Firefox. If you don't have them installed you will need to get them. The fastest way is it go the the Add/Remove Software section of the System Tools and install them.

Then you should make sure that they are are all up-to-date, along with the rest of your system. To do this got to Teminal. From there type this as root yum update. If you haven't updated in a while this can take a little while.

Installation
============
1. Get the tarball
I am guessing that you have already downloaded this from a website. So I won't go into to much detail over how to do that.

2. Create a database
Create a PostgreSQL database and give yourself access to it. The database must be named "elementalclinic", or you must specify a different name in the next step. If you don't have much experience with PostgreSQL then I would take a look at: Tutorial

3. Install the test database
In the database directory, run: `make clean-stable`

If you used a different database name in the previous step, run:
`make clean-stable DB=database_name`


4. Configure eleMental Clinic
First, create a configuration directory. You should use
/etc/elementalclinic, or you should change the $CONFIG_PATH variable in
lib/eleMentalClinic/Config.pm. You'll need two items in this directory:

- config.yaml (from "etc" in the package)
- templates/

Then, copy the contents of lib/ somewhere into your Perl path (e.g.
/usr/local/perl). Optionally, you can put it somewhere else entirely and
configure Apache to find it.

Next, copy the contents of public_html/ into a directory in your web root
(e.g. /var/www/clinic).

That spells it out for you pretty much!

5. Configure Apache
Configure. You'll need to modify config.yaml to reflect your installation.
At most you should need to change these options:

- dbname = [ as above ]
- dbtype = 'postgres'
- dbuser = [ as above ]
- passwd = [ as above ] # although you may use passwordless access
- template_root = [ template dir in etc ]
- log_conf_path = [ path to log file ]

There are various other paths to configure if you are using the ECS features.

Just find the "config.yaml" file, you can probably do that by opening terminal and typing grep config.yaml

6. Install Perl modules
You'll need to make a number of changes to your Apache configuration files.

Apache must be correctly configured to execute .cgi files, and to use
index.cgi as a directory index.

You must tell Apache where to find the eleMental Clinic libraries and
configuration. This is accomplished with the distributed startup.pl.
You'll want to edit the 'use lib' line at the top of the file to point at
your library installation.

Then, add this block:

PerlSwitches -T
PerlRequire /path/to/startup.pl

<Directory "/var/www/clinic">
Options FollowSymLinks
PerlSetVar config_path /path/to/config.yaml
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler eleMentalClinic::Dispatch

DirectoryIndex index.cgi

RewriteEngine on
# redirect everything else to dispatch
RewriteRule ^$ /index.cgi [L,QSA]
</Directory>

Restart Apache and check the error log. It should die with a bunch of Perl errors about missing modules. To restart apache type /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

7. Configure your browser
7. Logging. eleMental Clinic uses the Log4perl logging package. It is based
on the popular Log4j. Most notably, it allows nearly arbitrary
configuration at run-time, without restarting the server or changing code.

To get logging working:

1. Copy etc/log.conf into your configuration directory.
2. Open log.conf and set, at least, your log location.
3. Make sure permissions are correct -- your web server must have write
access to the log file's parent directory for rotation to work.
4. Second, set the "log_conf_path" config variable, in config.yaml, to
point to your log.conf file.

This all seems pretty straight forward.
8. Perl modules. You'll need the following Perl modules, which you can install from CPAN.

You have the whole list so I won't post it up here.

Configure Firefox
You should configure Firefox to allow cookies and popups from the site
serving eleMental Clinic (e.g. localhost). Also, make sure your browser is at
least 1024 pixels wide.

10. Login

You should be able to login as the root user "clinic" with password "dba".
CHANGE THIS PASSWORD AS SOON AS YOU LOGIN! Look under "Preferences."

I hope that this helps a lot. I know that I just copied a lot of it but to be honest, I have never worked with this program before. If you have any problems certainly ask, and also use Google it is your friend.

Cheers!

rb4178

I have done a lot of this. Thanks for explaining the config.yaml thing from cpan. I am running fedora core 6 and I don't have a usr/local/perl path. Does fedora use something else for perl? Also in this package I cannot find the startup.pl file. I don't know where it is. My main problem is with configuring apache I guess because I don't know where to enter that block of info at. I am confused about that. Could someone help if I sent the tarball? What system are you using and if it is not fedora can you help me figure this out.