Cassiopeia Installation notes

Following softwares are required to use the Cassiopeia.

HTTP server that can accept CGI1.1 (RFC3875) is required.

Apache is free and famous HTTP server so it would be better choice.

• Apache

Note

• If the server does not set 'ON' or 'on' to environment variable HTTPS when connecting by HTTPS, environment variable SERVER_PORT must be 443.

SMTP server is required.

Following software is free and well-known SMTP server.

• Postfix
• qmail

As of now, Cassiopeia just supports PostgreSQL database (8.1 or higher).

• PostgreSQL

Note

• It would be better to create new user and database by following some PostgreSQL database installation manual.

Cassiopeia is written by Ruby programming language. Its interpreter and some external modules are required.

• Ruby 1.8
• Ruby/DBI
• Ruby-pg

Cassiopeia requires powerful picture conversion tool "convert" which is provided by Image Magick.

• Image Magick

Note

• Please make sure that the "convert" is on the PATH.

Please download newest version of cassiopeia from here.

Please extract the downloaded archive by appropriate software.

e.g.

% tar xfj cassiopeia-version.tar.bz2

% unzip cassiopeia-version.zip

Please put the extracted directory on somewhere.

e.g. Put it on DocumentRoot of apache could be usual choice. It supposes that the DocumentRoot is /var/www/apache2-default, command are