[freeside] proposed change for /docs/config.html

[Jeff Foster]

Thanks, 
 
I was working on installing freeside this morning and needed this
information. 
I was considering posting just such an update when I had it figured out.
 
Jeff Foster
jfoste at woodward.com <mailto:jfoste at woodward.com> 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:curtis at canon.maurand.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 7:32 AM
To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
Subject: [freeside] proposed change for /docs/config.html


Hi,
 
Proposed change to the documentation for clarity.
 
for config.html
 
 
To setup the configuration files for Freeside 1.2.x you must create the
directories /usr/local/etc/freeside and either of the following depending
which database you are running.
 
         DBA                directory name
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------ 
    mysql            /usr/local/etc/freeside/conf.DBI:mysql:freeside
    PostgreSQL       /usr/local/etc/freeside/conf.DBI:Pg:dbname=freeside
 
These directories should not be world readable.
You must have a file called "mapsecrets" in the mapsecrets file, you need
the username and the name of  a file to contain user information for each
user that will authorized to use freeside.  Authentication is handled by
Apache.  If you've configured Apache for user authentication properly,
Apache will pass the username to freeside which uses the info contained in
each user information file for connectivity to the freeside datbase.   The
format of the map secrets file is:
 
username                    <name of userinformation file>
 
for example:
 
username        username.txt
 
more elaborately, you could create a users directory and put your user
information files in there:
 
username        users/username.txt
 
Each user information file has three lines and format is:
 
DBI:mysql:freeside (or DBI:Pg:dbname=freeside if you're using PostgreSQL)
DB_username
DB_password
 
example:
 
DBI:mysql:freeside
freesideuser
password
 
 
 
Where the first line is the databese connectivity definition. The second
line is the username of the user that is connecting to the database.  The
third line is that user's database password.
 
 
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