Sf-Active Installation Script

This page describes what would be ideal for an sf-active installation script. Lots of people try sf-active and then never complete the installation because it's so complicated, let's fix that!

Related: Debian package that bart worked on

Needed components

Upgrade

It might be best to have a copy of the templates + dictionaries from the version being upgraded for comparison...this would make it easy to decide if a manual update is needed or not. Even better: use an md5sum of the previous translations + templates.

• Back up the current database
• Apply any database patches + upgrades Script created
• Copy in any completely new files
• Compare any local dictionaries to the default dictionary, pointing out updated translations
  • Offer to merge the dictionaries? This would actually be pretty easy to do. Script Created
• Compare any local templates to the default templates, highlighting ones that need to be manually upgraded Mostly there

New Install

• Create Database
• Seed with sample data
• Prompt for initial configuration data -- site name, default publishing category, etc
• Either add new vhost, or prompt for necessary vhost details

-- QuintenSteenhuis - 02 Feb 2005