How I Built This Site

Here is a log of how I built this site.

• I installed PostgreSQL and aolserver 3.3+ad13 as usual.
• I checked out the code (from the 4.6 branch) via

  cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@openacs.org:/cvsroot co -r oacs-4-6 openacs-4

  That checks out all the code not just the core but I have a fast connection so like having all the code.
• I moved the openacs-4 directory to /web/xarg, created an xarg.tcl config file and ran

  /usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd -f -t xarg.tcl > xarg-install.log 2>&1

  to bootstrap the server. I like keeping the bootstrap logs around for later in case something wierd shows up that has to do with the original install.
• Once the bootstrap was complete I installed some modules (rss-support, lars-blogger, notifications, general-comments) and tried them out.
• I then moved the default-master out of /web/xarg/www to /web/xarg/templates and updated the DefaultMaster parameter on "/" in /admin/site-map/ since I think such things should not be in the url space of the server. I also ripped out most of the code in the master template and added a css file, a logo, persistent navigation, and a favicons.ico file.
• I added dummy files for the places I was going to have actual content (like /photos/ and /tools/).
• I mounted lars-blogger, notifications, and general-comments and tried them out. I found to get the rss-support to work you had to mount rss-support and manually pass the magic variables to susbr-ae and even now the scheduled generation is failing and I have to go and manually run the generation at rss/admin/subscrs.
• I checked that a non-registered user saw something reasonable when they came to the site, a user could register and I would get a notification, that a registered user could post comments and register for notifications.