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\title{phpGroupWare Docs V0}
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phpGroupWare Docs V0.07
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Joseph Engo
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Dan Kuykendall
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Dedication
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Thanks to Joesph Engo for starting phpGroupWare (at the time called webdistro)
and the core of this HOWTO.
Thanks to all the developers and users who contribute to making phpGroupWare
such a success.
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What is phpGroupWare
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phpGroupWare is a web based GroupWare system.
It comes with serveral core apps for email, calendar, todo list, address
book, file manager, and a notepad.
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It also provides a framework for add-on applications to integrate seamlessly
in phpGroupWare.
Some samples are a bookmark manager, a trouble ticket system, a weather
reporter, a phone log, a chat program, and a forum system.
There are many more in development, and you can develop your own as well.
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Why you should use it
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You should use it if you would like a powerful groupware system that can
be access from anywhere on the Internet, and allows for custom add-ons.
For companies with a distributed user base, it's an ideal solution.
Oh, and did I mention that its FREE?
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Installation
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Installation and Configuration of phpGroupWare has never been easier.
Just point and click, yeah it's very easy.
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Since this is still a beta version we do expect some bugs.
By carefully reading this document you can easly install phpGroupWare.
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Requirements
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You will need PHP compiled and installed on your system.
You will also need MySQL or PostgreSQL setup.
If you are planning on using the email system, you will need to have an
IMAP server installed and IMAP support compiled into PHP.
You can have it installed as an Apache module or command line version,
the Apache module is preferred.
We will assume that you are running on a Linux or other Unix system for
these steps.
Windows is supported, but there is no documentation for it currently.
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In order to check if you have php installed create the file with your favorite
text editor named test.php in your webserver root directory:
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<? phpinfo(); ?>
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Then point your browser to http://yourserverroot/test.php.
You should get a very detailed page describing various options in php.
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If you need to to compile php and apache the following links are good starting
points:
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A set of scripts to compile and install various modules with apache:
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The Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) Guide v2 (latest as of this writing):
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The Soothing Seemless Setup of Apache, SSL, MySQL, and PHP:
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Tested Systems
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On Linux 2.2.x, 2.4.x
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PHP 3.0.15+ / PHP 4.0.x
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Apache 1.3.x
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MySQL 3.22.25 or PostgreSQL 7.0.x
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Courier-IMAP 0.33+ and/or qmail 1.03 for POP3 access
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We have reports of it working on Windows NT and OS/2, and using Oracle as
the database.
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Obtaining and Installing phpGroupWare
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After you have met the system requirements, You can install it from the
TarBall or you can get it directly from CVS.
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Installing from TarBall
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Installing from a TarBall is very easy.
The files should be installed in the webserver directory.
Example steps (please adjust to your servers config):
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cp phpgroupware-version.tar.gz /home/httpd/html
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cd /home/httpd/html
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tar zxf phpgroupware-version.tar.gz
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You may have to get required permissions to do this.
Contact your system administrator if you dont have the permission to write
to your webserver directory.
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You can get current releases of phpGroupWare at the phpGroupware
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(
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Installing from CVS
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Installing from a CVS is fairly easy.
The files should be checked out in the webserver directory.
Example steps (please adjust to your servers config):
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cd /home/httpd/html
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cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.phpgroupware.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phpgroupware
login (just hit enter if prompted for a password)
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cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.phpgroupware.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phpgroupware
co phpgroupware
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or if you prefer using CVSROOT:
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export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.phpgroupware.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phpgro
upware'
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cvs login (just hit enter if prompted for a password)
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cvs co phpgroupware
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You may have to get required permissions to do this.
Contact your system administrator if you dont have the permission to write
to your webserver directory.
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Setting File Permissions
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There are a few directories which will need special fie permissions set
for phpGroupWare to work properly.
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Temp Directory (Required) - This can be /tmp for simplicity, but it is required
for several apps to function properly.
Simply make sure that the webserver can add/delete files in it.
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Files Directory (Required) - This can be should be the files dir under the
phpgroupware dir.
You will need to give the webserver account owndership of this directory.
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chown nobody:nobody
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chmod 700 /home/httpd/html/phpgroupware/files
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Root Directory (Not recommended) - If you give the webserver account write
access to the phpgroupware directory, then the setup program can create
the header.inc.php for you.
Otherwise you will need to use the setup program to create it, and then
you can manually save it to file.
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If you want to do it:
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chown :nobody /home/httpd/html/phpgroupware
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chmod 770
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You may have to get required permissions to do this.
Contact your system administrator if you dont have the permission to write
to your webserver directory.
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Setup the database
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You need to create empty databases for the setup app to create the tables
in.
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Mysql (assuming an existing and working Mysql install)
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Mandrake or Redhat: /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start
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other: /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld &
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create the empty database: mysqldadmin -u someuser create phpgroupware -p
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login to mysql: mysql -u someuser -p
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issue the following at the mysql prompt:
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grant all on phpgroupware.* to phpgroupware@localhost identified by
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somepassword
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;
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For more detailed user documentation on Mysql see their website :
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Postgresql (assuming an existing and working Postgresql install)
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To create the required database in Postgresql make sure postgresql is started:
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Mandrake or Redhat : /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start
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others: /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data or /usr/bin/pg_ctl -D
/var/lib/pgsq/data start (adjust for your install dirs)
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create the empty database: /usr/bin/createdb phpgroupware
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For more detailed user documentation on Postgresql see their website :
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Setup / Configure phpGroupWare
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Point your browser to http://yourserverroot/phpgroupware/setup/ which will
create (or upgrade) the header.inc.php and database tables.
Setup will attempt to determine what version of the phpGroupWare databases
and header.inc.php you have installed, and upgrade to the most recent version.
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Note:
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You are advised to backup your existing database before running the setup
script to avoid problems!
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Testing the install
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If your config is setup properly you can now login.
Point your browser to the installed location and login with the username
demo and the password is 1234
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At this point it would be a good idea to create a new user with administrative
privileges and delete the old one.
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Installing additional applications
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Once you have the core phpGroupWare install up and running, you may want
to download and install additional applications.
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You should consult any README or INSTALL files that come with the new applicatio
n first, as most require you to create additional tables in the database,
and add additional translation data to the lang table (typically a file
called lang.sql)
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You install the new application within the phpGroupWare install tree by
copying the application directory into the phpGroupWare install location,
and enabling the application through the Administration page.
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For example, this is the process to install the Headlines application:
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(see
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for more applications)
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Download the .tar.gz file for the application, or check out the source with
cvs with
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export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.phpgroupware.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phpgwa
pps'
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cvs login (just hit enter if prompted for a password)
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cvs co headlines
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Move the headlines directory into your phpGroupWare install directory.
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Log into phpGroupWare as an administrative user, and go to the Administration
page.
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In the first section, choose the Applications link.
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Click on add, and fill in the form.
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Application name should be identical to the name of the directory you moved
into the phpGroupWare install, in this case use headlines
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Application Title is shown in the navigation bar and other places to refer
to the new application.
Enter Headlines for this example.
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Enabled can be used to disable an application for all users temporially.
You should normal check the box to enable the application.
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Back in the Administration page, you need to enable the application for
specific users or user groups by editing them, and checking the new Headlines
box that appears in the middle of the account editing page.
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Once you have added the Headlines app to your account, you should see a
Headlines entry in the Administration and Preferences pages, and there
should be an icon for the Headlines application in the navigation bar.
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Once you enable a few of the Headlines sites through the Administration
page link, you should see headlines grabbed from the sites you selected
when you click on the Headlines icon in the navigation bar.
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Trouble Shooting
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Warning
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phpGroupWare is still Beta software, expect some bugs along the way.
If you run into a problem not discussed here, contact us through one of
the methods listed on the website.
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<EFBFBD>The phpGroupWare developers can most often be seen hanging out in
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#phpGroupWare
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on
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irc.openprojects.net
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if you require real-time help.
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Also check the FAQ in this directory for additional common questions, it
is available as FAQ.sgml, FAQ.txt and FAQ.html
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It seems to hang when I try to read my mail
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This is often a problem if you are using POP3 instead of IMAP, and you have
more than a few hundred messages in your mailbox.
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By default, php is set up to time-out a request that takes over 30 seconds
to complete.
phpGroupWare must do a lot of work the first time your POP3 mailbox is
opened, and every time you get new mail, which may take more than the 30
second timeout.
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You can either clean up your mailbox with another mail program, or add the
line
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set_time_limit(0);
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to the top of the phpgwapi/inc/phpgw_msg_pop3.inc.php file, just before the
line class msg extends msg_common
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If you choose to edit the file, be patient when loading a large POP3 mailbox
- the author tested against a mailbox with 2500 messages in it, but it
took 15 minutes to load the page.
We highly suggest you use IMAP if you expect to have more than a few hundred
messages in your mailbox.
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When I log in I see the directory listing instead of a web page
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You are using Apache, this often means you need to add .php to the DirectoryIndex
line in your httpd.conf file.
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DirectoryIndex index.php index.php3 index.html index.htm index.cgi
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I get garbage that looks like code when I go to the phpGroupWare URL
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This is often because you have php3 installed, which does not map .php to
the PHP engine.
For PHP3:
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AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 .php
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For PHP4:
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AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 .php
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About this document
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The newest version of this document can be found on our website
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as lyx source, HTML, or TEXT.
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Comments on this HOWTO should be directed to the phpGroupWare developers
mailing list
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phpgroupware-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
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To subscribe, go to
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History
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This document was started by Joseph Engo reworked by Dan Kuykendall then
hacked again by Darryl VanDorp
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Version History
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Old Version
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Created by Jengo, wasn't in SGML HOWTO format.
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v1.0 (July 6, 2000)
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Built proper SGML version.
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Included the FAQ.
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Other minor additions.
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v1.1 (September 27-29, 2000) - blinky
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Added Testing Install section
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Added Trouble-shooting section
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Added description of application installation
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Changes for the new setup program
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v0.01 (October 15 , 2000) - gnrfan , Converted the HOWTO to DocBook format
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v.0.05 (November 5, 2000) - gnrfan , Completely revamped according to Seek's
idea and intregrated the Developers HOWTO.
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v.0.06 (Jan 10, 2001) - Darryl VanDorp, imported to lyx source reformatted
and touched up some sections
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v.0.07 (Jan 16, 2001) - Darryl VanDorp, added TOC, fixed some Postgresql setup
instructions, added some links to install/compilation instructions for
apache, php and mysql.
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