In this document we describe the process of installing RackForms through a pure SSH command line setting. In some ways this method may be easier, though some steps are made more complicated, as for example, we need to grab the RackForms zip file from an existing newwork location.

With that said, on with the instructions. Please note that any lines starting with a // are comments.

// Your SSH login will usually be an ip or a host name such as:

# ssh example.com -l your_user_name

// In The Open SSH Terminal Now...

mysql

// please note we are now in mysql, which means the command promot starts with >

>create database RackForms

>CREATE USER 'RackForms'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'a_very_secure_password'
>GRANT ALL ON RackForms.* TO 'RackForms'@'localhost';
>exit

// get RackForms files. This assumes a very basic server setup where web files are in /var/www/html

# cd /var/www/html

# wget http://some-location.com/where+your+RackForms+zip+is

# unzip RackForms.zip

// file permissions - we need to find a user to share apache priviledges with. We'll assume that user is 'chris'

# cat /etc/passwd | cut -d":" -f1

# chown -R chris RackForms/
# chgrp -R apache RackForms/

# chmod 775 RackForms/app/config.php
# chmod 775 RackForms/app/movefiles/config.php

# chmod 775 -R RackForms/output/

// perform graphical install

# mv RackForms/install.php RackForms/install.php.old

Extra Links

This is just one way to perform the install, though it should be a good basis to start from.

http://www.rackforms.comgnu.org/software/wget/

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/grant.html