SiteScape Installation Guide
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................ III
PREFACE...................................................................................................................................................... 1
CHAPTER 1: PREPARING FOR SITESCAPE FORUM ...................................................................... 3
SITESCAPE FORUM SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ......................................................................... 3
CONFIGURE YOUR DATABASE ........................................................................................................................ 4
CONFIGURE THE MICROSOFT SQL DATABASE ................................................................................................ 5
Configure the Datasource for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005
............................................ 5
Configure the Datasource for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 64-bit
.................................................. 5
Note the Connect String
...................................................................................................................... 5
CONFIGURE THE ORACLE DATABASE.............................................................................................................. 6
Installing the Oracle Client
.................................................................................................................. 6
Configuring UNIX for Oracle
............................................................................................................... 7
CONFIGURE THE EXTERNAL FRONTBASE DATABASE SERVER........................................................................... 7
CHAPTER 2: INSTALLING SITESCAPE FORUM ............................................................................. 9
INSTALL FORUM ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS................................................................................................... 9
INSTALL FORUM ON UNIX OR LINUX SYSTEMS ............................................................................................ 11
Special Notes for SUSE Linux Installations
..................................................................................... 16
Special Notes for UNIX or Linux Installations Using an Oracle Database
.................................. 17
REMOVE FORUM FROM WINDOWS ............................................................................................................... 18
REMOVE FORUM FROM UNIX OR LINUX....................................................................................................... 19
CHAPTER 3: UPGRADING SITESCAPE FORUM ........................................................................... 21
DISK SPACE WARNING FOR UPGRADES........................................................................................................ 21
THE UPGRADE PROCEDURE ......................................................................................................................... 21
UPGRADE ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS .......................................................................................................... 23
UPGRADE ON UNIX OR LINUX SYSTEMS ...................................................................................................... 24
RECLAIM DISK SPACE AFTER UPGRADING FROM VERSION 6.0 ...................................................................... 26
CHAPTER 4: CONFIGURING WEB SERVERS ................................................................................ 27
IIS SERVERS .............................................................................................................................................. 27
APACHE SERVERS........................................................................................................................................ 30
SUN ONE PORTAL SERVER 6 ...................................................................................................................... 32
CHAPTER 5: CONFIGURE SITESCAPE FORUM ZX ....................................................................... 35
GETTING ZON INFORMATION....................................................................................................................... 35
RUNNING THE MAKE-ZON-CONFIG.TCL SCRIPT.............................................................................................. 37
Example of a new-zon-config.xml file
............................................................................................. 37