Masser - administrator's and developer's guide: Installation

1. Installation

System requirements:

Perl modules required:

Mod_fastcgi is supposed to be installed and functional. Now you can:

copy masser.fcgi file into some directory in which it will be visible for apache (for example DOCUMENT_ROOT/masser)
copy img/ directory and files in it into some directory in which it will be visible for apache too (for example DOCUMENT_ROOT/masser/img)
set ExecCGI for directory where masser.fcgi is (Options +ExecCGI)
file masser.conf copy to one of these places:
- directory with masser.fcgi (not recommended)
- /etc
- /usr/etc
and adjust these settings:
- path - according to place (or places) where applications and their configurations will be (for example /usr/local/lib/masser)
- img - according to your place of img/ directory (absolute or relative URL to masser.fcgi) - /masser/img in this example
- app_path - according to your place of masser.fcgi (URL without protocol part) - server_name/masser/masser.fcgi in this example
- other settings (see next chapters for explanation)
if you want to use masser as a static fast-cgi application (which is recommended), add to your httpd.conf this line:
```
FastCgiServer /path/to/masser/masser.fcgi -processes 1
```
(number of processes as you need)

Application will probably consist of these directories (or at least some of them):

etc/ with configuration file skeleton - copy it to some of directories from path option in masser.conf or config/ subdirectory in it
app/ with application itself - copy it in some directory from path option in masser.conf, in subdirectory named by application (APP for example)
img/ with images for application - it must be placed into directory with masser images, subdirectory named by application (DOCUMENT_ROOT/masser/img/APP)
other depends on application (sql/ with SQL scripts etc.)
adjust application configuration and run application:
```
http://server/path/masser.fcgi/APP
```

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