Freeside:1.7:Documentation:Installation

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Introduction

Install Freeside on a firewalled, private server, not a public (web, RADIUS, etc.) server.

Prerequisites

Packages

  • Perl, minimum version 5.8.0 (5.8.3 for RT?)
  • Apache, version 1.3 (mod_ssl highly recommended)
  • mod_perl, version 1.29 (if compiling your own mod_perl, make sure you set the EVERYTHING=1 compile-time option)
  • A transactional database engine supported by Perl's DBI.
    • PostgreSQL is recommended (v7.2 or later, 7.4 or later recommended).
    • MySQL is not currently supported. Developers intersted in maintaining MySQL support are welcome to ask on the -devel mailing list; most things work, but MySQL support needs a maintainer to update it for recent (and future) changes.

Note: the above only applies to the database used by the Freeside software itself. Freeside can integrate with RADIUS and other servers running MySQL or any other DBI-supported database.

  • teTeX and Ghostscript (included with most distributions) (Optional, enables typeset invoices)

Perl modules

Popular modules you might want to check your distribution for

Modules of Indeterminate Popularity

Less common modules probably not included in anything but Debian?

Optional modules


Installation

  • Add the user and group `freeside' to your system.
  • Allow the freeside user full access to the freeside database.
    • with PostgreSQL

$ su postgres (pgsql on some distributions) $ createuser -P freeside Enter password for user "freeside": Enter it again: Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y Shall the new user be allowed to create more new users? (y/n) n CREATE USER

    • or with MySQL:

$ mysqladmin -u root password 'set_a_root_database_password' $ mysql -u root -p mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,INDEX,ALTER,CREATE,DROP on freeside.* TO freeside@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'set_a_freeside_database_password';

  • Edit the top-level Makefile:
    • Set DATASOURCE to your DBI data source, for example, DBI:Pg:dbname=freeside for PostgresSQL or DBI:mysql:freeside for MySQL. See the DBI manpage and the manpage for your DBD for the exact syntax of your DBI data source.
    • Set DB_PASSWORD to the freeside database user's password.
  • Add the freeside database to your database engine:
    • with Postgres:

$ su freeside $ createdb -E sql_ascii freeside

    • or with MySQL:

$ mysqladmin -u freeside -p create freeside

  • Build and install the Perl modules:

$ make perl-modules $ su

  1. make install-perl-modules
  • Create the necessary configuration files:

$ su

  1. make create-config
  • Run a separate iteration of Apache[-SSL] with mod_perl enabled as the freeside user.
  • Edit the Makefile and set FREESIDE_DOCUMENT_ROOT.
  • Run make install-docs
  • Configure Apache:

PerlModule HTML::Mason

  1. your freeside docuemnt root

<Directory /var/www/freeside> <Files ~ (\.cgi|\.html)> AddHandler perl-script .cgi .html PerlHandler HTML::Mason </Files> <Perl> require "/usr/local/etc/freeside/handler.pl"; </Perl> </Directory>

  • Restrict access to this web interface - see the Apache documentation on user authentication. For example, to configure user authentication with mod_auth (flat files), add something like the following to your Apache httpd.conf file, adjusting for your actual paths:
  1. your freeside document root

<Directory /var/www/freeside> AuthName Freeside AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd require valid-user </Directory>

  • As the freeside UNIX user, run freeside-setup -d domain.name to create the database tables and initial data.

$ su freeside $ freeside-setup -d example.com

  • Create one or more Freeside users (your internal sales/tech folks, not customer accounts). These users are setup using using Apache authentication, not UNIX user accounts. For example, using mod_auth (flat files):
    • First user:

$ su

  1. freeside-adduser -c -h /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd username
    • Additional users:

$ su freeside

  1. freeside-adduser -h /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd username

(using other auth types, add each user to your Apache authentication and then run: freeside-adduser username)

  • Create the Freeside system users:

$ su freeside

  1. freeside-adduser fs_queue
  2. freeside-adduser fs_daily
  3. freeside-adduser fs_selfservice


  • freeside-queued was installed with the Perl modules. Start it now and ensure that is run upon system startup (Do this manually, or edit the top-level Makefile, replacing INIT_FILE with the appropriate location on your system and QUEUED_USER with the username of a Freeside user you created above, and run make install-init)
  • Now proceed to the initial administration of your installation.