Configuring the hypertext system and the MULTIMEDIA CATALOGUE

For configuration of the hypertext system you will have to edit the file config.inc in the root directory of the hypertext system.

The fields that need to be checked and possibly modified are:

DATABASE_HOST

The host name of the database server. Can be left unchanged if the apache server and the database server reside on the same host.

DATABASE_NAME

The name of the database (can be left unchanged if you followed the recommendation in this installation guide).

DATABASE_USER

The name of the database user (can be left unchanged if you followed the recommendation in this installation guide).

DATABASE_PW

Password of the database user. Whatever you chose in section 4.1.

HTSYS_ROOT

The root directory of the hypertext system where all PHP scripts are located. This directory must be specified relative to the DOCUMENT_ROOT of the apache web server. If you did not change the default directory, leave this unchanged.

SYSTEM_USER

A hypertext system user with unlimited access to all objects. This may be any user name. If you installed the database tables for authentication, you have already created a user 'mmc' which can be used as the system user. Do not confuse this with the database user.

IMAGE_DIR

The directory where all the images are. If you did not change the default directory, leave this unchanged.

ANNOTATIONS

The name of the collection where annotations will be stored. Do not change this, if you will install the example catalogue as described in section 4.5.2.

AUTH_METHOD

The method of authentication. It can be either 'internal' or 'ldap'. If you use 'internal' authentication you will have to install the user and group management tables (see section 4.1). If you use 'ldap' you will need a working ldap server.

LDAP_SERVERS

A list of ldap servers which are contacted one by one. Set this variable, if you selected 'ldap' as your authentication method.

Before any further configuration of the hypertext system and the MULTIMEDIA CATALOGUE you can make a first trial to access the rootcollection by pointing your browser to the URL http://localhost[:port]/. If you have inserted the initial collections as described in section 4.1, you will see just one clickable entry with the title "Root of hypertext system"

The appearance of the page is determined by the default application, which can be used for basic document manipulations.

The MULTIMEDIA CATALOGUE itself will not be visible until you either create a new collection of type 'MultimediaCatalogue' or inserting the example catalogue. Both alternatives will be explained in section 4.5.