Installing Caucus 4.0 on Unix |
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This guide, from the Screen Porch Documentation Library, describes the details involved in downloading and installing Caucus on your Unix system. If you run into a problem or question not covered in this page, please join the appropriate support conferences on our Caucus site at http://screenporch.com.
If you'd like to try Caucus on your own Unix host, you can download a 30-day trial kit.
If you have purchased a Caucus license, you can download your official kit now. You will need the download id and password sent to you by Screen Porch. (If you did not receive a download id, please contact sales@screenporch.com.)
Your Caucus kit is downloaded as an compressed "tar" archive called caucus40.t.Z. (If you've downloaded a 30-day trial kit, you will also receive an "activation key" via e-mail. You'll need this key to activate your trial kit.)
The installation procedure creates a standard HTML page that you can use to access Caucus. The URL for that page is:
http://yourhost.com/~caucus/caucus.html
This file is located in the public_html directory of the "caucus" userid. It is just a template for accessing Caucus. If your organization already has a set of web pages, you will probably want to integrate this file with your existing pages. You might choose to copy the links in this file to the appropriate places on your existing web pages; or you might decide to edit the caucus.html file and simply make it look more like your other web pages.
During the installation procedure, you were asked for the userid (in Caucus) of the "primary manager". That person is given full management capabilities of your Caucus site, including the ability to add other people as managers.
To see the management capabilities, access Caucus with that userid, and on the "Caucus Center" page, click on "You can manage this site" (underneath your name near the top right corner of your browser window).
If for some reason you need to change the userid of the primary manager, edit the plain text file MISC/managers (from the Caucus home directory), and change the userid in the very first line of that file.
Several enhancements are planned for Caucus, and Caucus documentation, in the near future. These include precise web server configuration instructions for Netscape Enterprise Server 3, a "how-to" on using other authentication methods for Caucus, a description of the new Caucus "macro" features, and a detailed FAQ about installation problems and solutions.
Stay tuned to this site for further information!