16 End-User Documentation Portal Installation

The End-User Documentation Portal is a set of customizable HyperText Markup Language (HTML) pages that provides an overview of Oracle Collaboration Suite clients and the information for downloading, installing, and configuring each Oracle Collaboration Suite client. The End-User Documentation Portal also includes links to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and Troubleshooting site on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) and Oracle Collaboration Suite end-user tutorials.

Oracle recommends that you install and use the End-User Documentation Portal to provide the end-users with all the information they need to run the Oracle Collaboration Suite clients.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Section 16.1, "Installing the End-User Documentation Portal"
Section 16.2, "Deploying the End-User Documentation Portal Package"
Section 16.3, "Restricting Access to the End-User Documentation Portal Administration Panel"
Section 16.4, "Securing the End-User Documentation Portal Administration Panel with Apache Authentication"

16.1 Installing the End-User Documentation Portal

This section explains the installation process for End-User Documentation Portal. Installing the End-User Documentation Portal involves the following steps:

Section 16.1.1, "Testing PHP"
Section 16.1.2, "Installing the DOM XML Extension"

16.1.1 Testing PHP

PHP is an HTML embedded scripting language. The End-User Documentation Portal requires PHP version 4.3.x or later but will not work with PHP 5.0 or later version. It is installed with Oracle Collaboration Suite and is already compiled. The steps for testing PHP are as follows:

Navigate to http://localhost and locate the name of the directory on your machine that the URL points to. By default, the directory is htdocs. In this directory, create a new file called info.php, that consists of the following test script:
```
<?php
  phpinfo();
?>
```
Check if the test script works by navigating to http://localhost/info.php. A PHP page comes up if the etst script is successful. A part of this page is shown in Figure 16-1:

Figure 16-1 Default PHP Page

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There are many other tables that follow the table shown in Figure 16-1. These tables describe the extensions that were installed in the PHP installation.

16.1.2 Installing the DOM XML Extension

The DOM XML extension is a PHP extension. It is a compiled library.

The steps to install the DOM XML extension are as follows:

Determine which version of PHP that is installed on your system by displaying the http://localhost/info.php page in your browser window.
Find a precompiled version of the DOM XML extension by performing the following steps:
1. Navigate to a site that enables you to search for rpms, such as http://rpm.pbone.net/.
2. Search for rpms that have domxml or php-domxml in their name.
3. Find a version of the extension closest to the version of PHP installed in your system and download it.
Use the rpm command as follows to install the php-domxml package that you downloaded.
```
rpm -Uvh name of the php-domxml package
```
Check if the extension is installed by navigating to the http://localhost/info.php page and searching for the domxml table. If you see a table titled domxml, then the extension was successfully installed.

16.2 Deploying the End-User Documentation Portal Package

The steps for unzipping and deploying the End-User Documentation Portal package are as follows:

Unzip the contents of eudp.zip from the DVD/Doc/EUDP directory in to the htdocs directory, or the directory to which http://localhost/ points.
In a browser window, navigate to http://localhost/eudp/admin/view.php to test whether the End-User Documentation Portal administration tool works.

For instructions on how to use the End-User Documentation Portal administration tool and how to customize the content, refer to Chapter 5 of Oracle Collaboration Suite Administrator's Guide.

16.3 Restricting Access to the End-User Documentation Portal Administration Panel

To prevent users other than the administrator from accessing the End-User Documentation Portal administration panel, use htpasswd utility of Apache server to protect the eudp/admin directory. After you have protected this directory, users will see a dialog requesting a user name and password when they try to access view.php. See the documentation of Apache server for more information about restricting access to directories.

16.4 Securing the End-User Documentation Portal Administration Panel with Apache Authentication

The following steps show you how to secure the admin directory in eudp with Apache basic authentication.

When a user tries to access the admin directory (in particular, the view.php file), then the user will be prompted for a user name and password.

Performing the following steps on a local installation of the End-User Documentation Portal:

Note:

You cannot perform the following steps remotely.

Create a file called.htaccess in the eudp/admin directory that contains the following directives:
```
AuthType Basic
AuthName "End-User Documentation Portal Administration Panel"
AuthUserFile "/apache_directory/htdocs/eudp/.htpassword"
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
require user administrator
```
/apache_directory is the location where you have installed Apache server and administrator is the user name of the administrator of the End-User Documentation Portal.
Create AuthUserFile called.htpassword. You must create this file in the same directory as specified in "htaccess". Run the htpasswd utility as follows:
```
/apache_directory/bin/htpasswd -c \
/apache_directory/htdocs/eudp/.htpassword administrator
```
The htpasswd command will prompt you for a password.
Enable the directives found in htaccess files. Locate the <Directory> tag in the Apache httpd.conf file and change the AllowOverride directive to the AuthConfig option instead of None:
```
<Directory "/apache_directory/htdocs">
#........Other directives................
AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>
```
Save the changes you made to the httpd.conf file.
Restart the Apache server.