Installing OpenACS
Created by OpenACS community, last modified by Maurizio Martignano 16 Sep 2009, at 10:57 AM
Installing OpenACS
There are many ways to get OpenACS working for you quickly and/or easily. See Try OpenACS for demonstrations, automated installations and hosting solutions.
Manually installing OpenACS:
These are the steps involved in setting up OpenACS. Before beginning, read about ways of getting help (docs-admin-help) during installation. Also, read the documentation completely before beginning, to minimize the chance of any surprises during installation.
- Prerequisites to installing OpenACS
- OpenACS reference platform
- Install a *nix based operating system
- Get the code
- Install Oracle
- Install PostgreSQL
- Install Tcl
- Install AOLserver
- Install OpenACS distribution
These pages contain notes where installing OpenACS on a specific OS different from the *nix standard installation instructions (above). These notes also refer to helper scripts and automated installers that can really simplify installation:
- Installing OpenACS on Debian linux
- Installing OpenACS on Redhat linux
- Installing OpenACS on FreeBSD
- Installing OpenACS on Mac OS X
- Installing OpenACS on Sun Solaris
- Installing OpenACS on SuSE linux
- Installing OpenACS on Windows 2000
- Installing OpenACS on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and 2008