$OpenBSD: README.OpenBSD,v 1.2 2010/09/06 14:47:19 ajacoutot Exp $
Post-install/update memo for Community-ID
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The complete installation instructions are available at
${BASE_URL}/wiki/communityid/How_to_install_Community-ID_under_Linux
Commutity-ID is installed under
${INSTDIR}
You should point this to the DocumentRoot of your web-server:
# ln -s ../communityid/webdir ${PREFIX}/htdocs/openid
(make sure you use a relative symlink since Apache is chrooted)
Installation
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* Creating a dedicated user and database for Community-ID.
$ mysql -u root -p mysql
mysql> CREATE DATABASE `communityid`;
mysql> USE `communityid`;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `communityid` . *
-> TO 'cid'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'cidpasswd';
mysql> QUIT
* Configuring the Apache web server.
Some rewriting rules are needed for proper operation as well as some
AllowOverride settings. You can configure these as follows:
$ sudo ln -s ${PREFIX}/conf/modules.sample/communityid.conf \
${PREFIX}/conf/modules
* Setting up entropy.
Community-ID needs a high-quality pseudo-random number generator. The
partition that hosts the ServerRoot (e.g. /var/www) needs to allow
character devices, i.e. _not_ be mounted "nodev", so configure
/etc/fstab accordingly. You can remount your /var/www partition
without having to restart:
$ sudo mount -u -o dev /var/www
You also need to create the arandom(4) device:
$ sudo mknod -m 644 /var/www/dev/arandom c $(ls -l /dev/arandom | awk '{ print $5,$6 }' | sed 's|,||')
Another solution would be to just run httpd unchrooted but it is
obviously not recommended.
Note: setting up entropy this way is not required per se but _highly_
encouraged on production systems. If you want to use an insecure
pseudo-random generator, just define Auth_OpenID_RAND_SOURCE as 'null'
at line 23 of ${INSTDIR}/libs/Auth/OpenID/CryptUtil.php.
* Configuring the maintenance job (clean the history logs).
Every openid authentication gets logged into the "history" table, so
it can get pretty large with time. The script clear_logs.php erases
the entries older than the number of days set in the config.php
setting "keep_history_days".
Add the following line to root's crontab:
0 0 * * * ${LOCALBASE}/bin/php ${INSTDIR}/scripts/clear_logs.php
* Finishing the installation.
Point your web browser to:
http://<hostname>/openid/
Restricting configuration file access
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* IMPORTANT!
After having successfully installed and configured Community-ID, you
must remove write access to the config.php file (you may want to edit
it manually in case the defaults are not good enough for your setup).
$ sudo chmod 0440 ${INSTDIR}/config.php
Update
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After upgrading Community-ID to a new version, always check:
${BASE_URL}/wiki/communityid/Upgrade_instructions_for_Community-ID
