[Koha-devel] ANNOUNCE: New Installer in master git tree

[MJ Ray]

Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at free.fr> wrote:
> - how to define the directory where I want to install Koha ?

Set PREFIX and CGI_DIR environment variables, but the File Hierarchy
Standard defaults should be good for most people.  See perldoc
rewrite-config.PL for a full list of what you can change.

> - how to define login/password for mySQL ? (same question for zebra) 

Set the MYSQL_DB, MYSQL_HOST, MYSQL_PASS, MYSQL_USER environment
variables.  Maybe I should mention these in README.txt and randomise
an unset MYSQL_PASS instead of using katikoan.

The installer does not yet configure zebra.  See the KNOWN BUGS bit of
my announcement.  That is the next-but-one thing on my TODO.

While you can tell koha the MySQL connection details, actually
creating the MySQL login and DB will be left to the sysadmin.  This is
because there's just too much variety between different distributions
and hosting control panels on the "correct" way to do it.  I believe
that's why the mysql step of 2.x installer broke so often.  I'm quite
happy to include a setup-mysql.sh script in the distribution, but I
think it needs to be its own step.

If someone would like to prove me wrong now and tell me one way that
will work for all platforms, go for it ;-)

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> Note that the webinstaller requires the koha login/password, and only that.

Could the web installer ask for (but not store) the mysql admin
login/password and create the koha login/password if it doesn't work
yet?

Thanks,
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