Installing FGdb

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FGdb is in the middle of a big move, so these instructions may not work so well. Please contact User:stillflame or User:rfs to find out how to use this software.

Quick Guide

User:stillflame is putting this here to help, though there will be a shortage of details.

start with an standard sarge install.

• Dependencies:
  • php4
  • apache
  • postgresql
  • smarty
  • libphp-adodb
  • php4-pgsql
• Fix adodb install_path
  • echo 'include_path = ".:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php4:/usr/share/adodb:/usr/share:/usr/share/php"' >> /etc/php4/apache/php.ini
• Template compile directory
  • mkdir /usr/share/php/smarty/lib*/compile
  • chown www-data:www-data /usr/share/php/smarty/lib*/compile
• Install Source
  • svn co http://svn.freegeek.org/svn/fgdb/trunk/ /var/www/fgdb
• Database
  • createlang plpgsql template1
  • create a passworded db user to do everything with, then a database to put things in
  • put all the sql files from sql/ into a database, 1.0 first, schema first
  • make sure the user can login with that password (pg_hba.conf)
• Config
  • put conf/* into /etc/fgdb/
  • modify to taste