Vipaka - Installation Guide
Vipaka has a standard perl install. It comes with a Makefile.PL which you use to build a makefile for your system. You can do that as follows:
$ perl Makefile.PL
The resulting ``Makefile'' can be used to make, test, and install vipaka.
Once you've installed vipaka on your system, you may want to create a vipaka user in your database. There are scripts in the ``sql'' directory for creating the user and prompting for a password.
Once you have everything installed, the
Quickstart Guide
should explain to you how to get started. See the
Configuration Guide
for more information on how to create a
read-only user
for vipaka in your database, to
edit the vipaka.conf file
,
Yes, you can use vipaka with a webserver, but there isn't too much
you need to do on the vipaka end of things. Basically vipaka
generates a set of html pages. These by default go into ``doc_root''
in the vipaka software directory, but this path can be changed via
the -k
option to vipakad when you start it or the ``doc_root''
directive in your config file. Specify a valid path,
and it will write the files there. Be sure to move the existing
vipaka documents from doc_root to that location, and create
directories named ``docs'',``help'', ``images'', and ``info'' there as
well. In short, you should copy all the files from the install
doc_root except maybe vipaka.html, which will be recreated.
It's pretty straightforward on most machines when using cpan.
$ cpan install DBI
It's pretty straightforward on most machines where Perl is already installed. You may have to do a force install if you do not have the sample schemas installed in your database
Make sure to set your environment variables ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, be sure $ORACLE_HOME/bin is in your path, and that $ORACLE_HOME/lib is in your library path then followthese steps:
$ cpan install DBD::Oracle
Depending on whether you have the sample schemas installed you might need to do the following
$ cpan force install DBD::Oracle
Of course, none of this would be complete without an Oracle database to connect to. Oracle Database 10g XE is freely (Beer) available.