Friday, 2 October 2009

TODB running locally in English Faculty

We have achieved a small, but I think significant, milestone in the TODB adoption process: the English Faculty have now set up TODB on one of their servers. Their entirely independently-hosted TODB is accessible here: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/todb/

Installation took approximately 20 minutes and went without hitch on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), which was already running Apache, MySQL and PHP. The installation consisted of five steps:
1 - database creation
2 - database user setup (via script)
3 - database table/data setup (via script)
4 - installation of PHP files (tar file tree)
5 - apache setup (manual copy & paste & edit from conf file excerpt provided with distribution)

Most reassuring was the fact that it ran 'out of the box' on a pretty standard web server.

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