Notice on antville-installation
Hi,
to avoid that others run into the same traps I encountered the last weeks, some helpful informations for installing antville:
Installation with: Helma 1.4.3 and Antville 1.1 with MySQL and Apache
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If you read the readme.txt file you find in antville-1.1.tgz/zip you will find some words about some zipfiles, like db_support.zip, which should be part of the package. They are not. You will find them in the 1.1PRE-version of antville, you can get on the download-archive. (Someone should correct the readme.txt or better add the files!)
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Avoid version 1.4.1 or prior of Helma. Otherwise you may get problems with charsets. (See storys below).
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If you download the MySQL-Java-Connector get the current version 3.1.17. Obviously 3.1.16 was shiped out with a problem in charset-manipulation, that was already solved some versions before!!
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If you use Apache to get the files in the static-directory directly, you have to add an
-Entry allowing Apache to access it. It is helpful to set the DocumentRoot of your virtual server (or the main server) into the helma/static-directory. To avoid possible XSS-Hacks and code intrusion, you should also take away the execution possibilities for scripts in the static-directory. E.g. if you have an Apache with mod_php and use Antville within a special virtual host, redefine the handling of PHP-Files like this: AddType text/ascii php
Have fun with your Antville installation!
darkfader
this probably were the most usable installation instructions ever seen here :)
tobi Verwaltung
it's true the readme.txt file is pretty out-of-date. however, the files of the db_support.zip package still are in the "db" directory. i recommend to rather use these than the zip file of 1.1pre since the latter one is most likely not up-to-date.
thanks for the feedback and i will update the readme.txt asap.