miniBIRCH - birchconfig for new installation

From the BIRCH home directory, type

cd install-birch
./birchconfig.sh

(Warning: birchconfig will NOT work correctly if launched from a different directory!)

The main birchconfig window will appear:

Choose "New BIRCH Installation" :

The new install window will appear similar to that shown above. The program will make guesses for the BIRCH home directory, the Userid of the BIRCH administrator, and the Default platform. Verify that these values are correct before continuing.

To set the miniBIRCH Master Directory, click 'Choose' and traverse the directory tree until you find the directory containing the complete copy of BIRCH. (If you are doing this as part of a course, your instructor will tell you where that is.)

The Email address of the BIRCH Administrator will also initially be blank. Fill in the email address, and make any other changes if the values guessed by the program are incorrect. You may wish to view the Help information for details on what these values should be.

When the information is complete, choose "Begin BIRCH Installation". The installer will begin, and a long stream of messages will be printed to the screen as the installation progresses. Finally, you will see messages similar to the following:

Setting up .login file
Setting up .cshrc file
Setting up .profile file
Setting up .bash_profile file
Setting up .bash_login file
Setting up .bashrc file
Done!
Logout and login again so that the changes can take effect.

and a message will pop up saying "BIRCH Installation complete". Click OK. A summary of the installation steps can be found in the BIRCH home directory in the files birchconfig.install.log (overview of the install) and birchconfig.screen (messages from install scripts that are also echoed to the screen).

At this point, you should have a fully-functional BIRCH site. All programs should work as seen in the tutorials. The one exception is that at this stage, the documentation can only be read by a web browser running on the same machine as the BIRCH installation. For example, in Mozilla, you could read the BIRCH home page by chosing File --> Open File and opening the file $BIRCH/public_html/index.html. See BIRCH - Customize Documentation to find out how to make the documentation readable through the Web.

Reminder: At this point, the only user who can actually run BIRCH programs is the BIRCH administrator. Each user must run the 'newuser' script to activate BIRCH access. For example, if BIRCH was installed in /home/birch, the command would be:

/home/birch/admin/newuser

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