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Diary of a ROADS Gateway Installation

Paul.Hollands@bris.ac.uk - ROADS Liaison Officer - January 1999

Introduction

To install, configure and maintain a ROADS subject gateway requires a certain degree of technical know how, most importantly a familiarity with UNIX, Web server configuration and HTML.

The current ROADS manual is very detailed and covers the whole functionality of the ROADS tool kit. It has become apparent however that a step-by-step guide to setting up and configuring ROADS would be a useful supplement to the current documentation.

This document is not intended as a replacement for the current ROADS manual. In order to understand enough to successfully use the software you will still need to read the manual in toto.

This guide has been produced as a diary logging the steps undertaking in configuring a new ROADS gateway. In this way I hope I can demonstrate some of the common pitfalls and provide a more intuitive set of instructions for ROADS novices.

Caveat: While configuring my ROADS installation I have done much of the work as super user. If your UNIX experience is limited I'd recommend against this. A safer approach would be to as follows:

  1. make yourself root using su
  2. change the file ownerships to the Web server:

    3. In the roads-v2.1 directory as root change the file ownership to nobody all levels down: 

    chown -R nobody *
  3. use the Web server UID to edit the files: 
    4. su nobody

Although ROADS liaison officer I'd better just mention I'm actually not a ROADS expert and my UNIX skills are decidedly limited. Therefore those of you who are have been using ROADS for a while might find this amusing if not informative :-)

Contents

  1. Day 1 - 14:00 FTP, Unpack and Install - (Manual Pages)
  2. Day 2 - 11:00 Configuring the Search Interfaces - ( Manual Pages | 1 | 2 | 3 |)
  3. Day 3 - 13:00 Configuring the Search Results Views - (Manual Pages | 1 | 2 |)
  4. Day 4 - 13:00 Configuring the ROADS Admin Centre - (Manual Pages)
  5. Day 5 - 12:00 Configuring the ROADS Template Editor - (Manual Pages | 1 | 2 | 3 |)
  6. Day 6 - 16:00 Configuring the ROADS Subject Listings - (Manual Pages)

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Last updated: February 1999 - paul.hollands@bris.ac.uk