12 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 12.1, "Installing the End-User Documentation Portal"
Section 12.2, "Deploying the End-User Documentation Portal Package"
Section 12.3, "Restricting Access to the End-User Documentation Portal Administration Panel"
Section 12.4, "Securing the End-User Documentation Portal Administration Panel with Apache Authentication"

12.1 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 12.1.1, "Testing PHP"
Section 12.1.2, "Installing the DOM XML Extension"

12.1.1 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 12-1:

Figure 12-1 Default PHP Page

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There are many other tables that follow the table shown in Figure 12-1. These tables describe the extensions that were installed in the PHP installation.

12.1.2 Installing the DOM XML Extension

You will need to install the DOM XML extension. This is a compiled library. (Note that this is different from the DOM extension, which is a PHP 5.0 extension.)

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

Edit the php.ini file as follows to indicate where PHP can find the compiled DOM XML library:
```
extension_dir=Specify the location of php_domxml.dll
```
Add the following entry in the php.ini file.
```
extension-php-domxml.dll
```
To check if this extension was installed, navigate to the http://localhost/info.php page. If you see a table titled domxml, then the extension was successfully installed.

12.2 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.

12.3 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.

12.4 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 "C:\Apache_directory\htdocs\eudp\htpassword"
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
require user administrator
```
C:\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:
```
C:\Apache_directory\bin\htpasswd -c ^
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 "C:/Apache_directory/htdocs">
#........Other directives................
AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>
```
In the httpd.conf file, change the AccessFileName directive to specify htaccess instead of .htaccess. This is the name of the file Apache looks for in each directory for additional directives, such as the ones you specified in Step 1.
```
AccessFileName htaccess
```
Save the changes you made to the httpd.conf file.
Restart the Apache server.