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Contents

Setting up the Server
Things you will need:
  • Apache or IIS setup and running
  • PHP with XML, fopen() URLs, MySQLi, and LDAP if you are using Active Directory
  • MySQL Server setup and running
  • UNS Package
  1. Before you even start the UNS Installation, you will need to decide if you want your admin panel to be SSL or not.
    1. If you do want you Admin Panel to be SSL, there is an example apache config file in
      [uns]/configs/apache_ssl_admin.conf

    2. For IIS select the properties of the admin folder, go to Directory Security and under Secure Communications select Require Secure Channel.

  2. Install Page overview
    1. Prerequisites
      1. PHP Version
        Checks to see if you have at least PHP 5
      2. MySQLi Function
        Checks to see if you have MySQLi extensions enabled in PHP
      3. XML Functions
        Checks to see if you have the XML extensions enabled in PHP, this is for RSS support.
      4. Allowed URL fopen()
        Checks to see if PHP can open a URL with fopen(), this is for RSS support.
      5. LDAP Functions
        Checks to see if PHP has LDAP functions, you can ignore this if you are not going to be using Active Directory for your authentication. If it they are found, a link will appear so you can test the connection.

    2. The SQL Connection
      1. SQL Host
        Your MySQL Host, use localhost for the same machine, or IP address if it is another machine
      2. SQL Admin Username
        The administrative user on your SQL Host
      3. SQL Admin Password
        Kind of self explanatory...

      4. UNS SQL Username
        Default is uns_user, but can be changed to anything you want.
      5. UNS SQL Pasword
        Once again, self explanatory...

      6. UNS Database Name
        The Name of the Database that will store UNS Data. Default is uns, but can be changed to anything you want

    3. UNS Settings
      1. Instance Name
        The Name of your UNS installation, shown on the Admin Panel
      2. Hostname
        Used for cookies and URL redirections, use the hostname if you want, or IP address, up to you.

      3. HTTP root for UNS
        This is the folder that UNS lives in, for no folder put /, other wise the folder you put it in, IE uns/
        DO NOT put leading slashes, IE /usn/

      4. Session Timeout
        This is the time in seconds that a cookie session will last, default is 3600 (1 hour)

      5. SSL Admin Folder
        If you want your admin panel to only be accessable by https:// then check this off, all other folders will still be http://

      6. Use LDAP?
        This is if you are going to use Active Directory for your authentication.

      7. LDAP Domain
        For windows put the DNS name for you domain (IE randomintervals.com)
        For Linux you will need to configure your host to beable to know that your domain name is to a specific IP address (/etc/resolve.conf)
      8. LDAP Port
        The Port that you have for your AD server (default is 3268)
      9. Redirect timeout
        Time limit for page redirections
      10. Default client URL refresh time
        The refresh time for each clients default setting, can be changed per URL in each clients list appon addition, this is just a default setting.

      11. Internal Administrator Password
        Used for the Internal admin for UNS. This is needed even if you are using Active Directory for your authentication.

      12. Max Number of Archived links per client
        This is the maximum number of rows in the history table that will be kept per client

      13. Max Number of Client Connection history
        This is the number or rows that will be kept per client for historical records, really only 2 are needed, so that the main page knows that the client has connected at least once and is alive.


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