Install guide

Pre-Installation Planning
Minimum Requirements
The minimum requirement for the WOW server is:
Server Hardware: Intel Pentium IA32 or X86_64 processor, 2 GB RAM, 4 GB swap, 200
MB disk space for software installation.
Server Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5.
Server Application Software: Apache version 2, OpenWorks R5000.0.3.x.
Important note: WOW does not work with SELinux. SELinux must be disabled.
Note that WOW is a server-side application. There is no client-side (Web browser)
installation or configuration:
Client Hardware: not restricted
Client Operating System: not restricted. Windows is preferred, but not mandated.
Client Web Browser: Internet Explorer version 7 or above, Mozilla Firefox version 1.0 or
above.
See Appendix 3
for a description of the product architecture.
Other Pre-installation Considerations
Reinstallation of the WebApps tree is required for R5000, there is no upgrade path. For
sites with R2003 WebApps, having the old conf directory available for comparison may
help with the installation process.
Before installing, you need to choose or confirm the following:
1. A system on which to run the Apache server.
2. Apache is usually, but not always, installed with the operating system.
If installed, directory /etc/httpd will exist. To confirm that Apache is installed, type:
prompt> rpm -qa | grep httpd
There should be a number of Apache packages installed. If not found, please request
your System Administrator obtain and install it – see Appendix 4
for more details.
3. Apache may not be running on the selected system. If Apache is running, i.e. from a
previous installation of WOW, you must stop it before continuing (as root):
prompt> /usr/sbin/apachectl stop
mv /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.orig
4. An install location, typically $OWHOME/WebApps, but may be any NFS-exported
filesystem, e.g. /apps/WebApps.
5. A user who will run the Apache server. This should be a user with read-write
(interpret) access to the OpenWorks projects – typically a data loader or
administrator. Do NOT use root or oracle for security reasons. Run the install script
as this user, from within an OpenWorks environment.
WOW 5000.0.1.11 Release Notes Page 14 of 104 March 2014