Update:Remora Server Requirements

Server Software

• Cake requirements
  • Apache 2.0 w/ mod_rewrite
  • PHP4 (PHP5 does not work with our settings)
  • RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSL)
• Remora-specific requirements (for l10n, mostly)
  • gettext
  • Archive_Zip-beta

Installation

Main Site

• Check out the appropriate tag
• Make sure to pull from the branch and include the services directory int he file tree.
• Set your DocumentRoot
  • For staging or prod: to /site/app
  • For development (including running of tests): to /site/app/webroot

Services

• Create a symbolic link to config-dist.php named config.php
• Set up the HOST and PATH info like so

(insert example here)

• Profit!

Permissions

• app/webroot/files needs to be writable by apache
• app/webroot/files/temp needs to be writable by apache
• app/webroot/files/approval needs to be writable by apache

Configuration

Copy app/config/database.php.default to app/config/database.php and modify the default and test databases to be your database, but for the test database use a user with read-only privileges. To create a user with read-only privileges, execute this SQL command after replacing {variables}:

GRANT SELECT ON {database} TO '{username}'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '{password}';

First, import app/config/remora.sql - this provides the schema and standard data for langs, translations, and addontypes.

Then, import app/tests/remora-test-data.sql - this inserts more complete test data. Currently, addon id 7(MicroFarmer) is most complete.