Event Tracking Agent (ETA) Installation

There are two parts of this installation procedure:

• How to install ETA and getting it to talk to a MySQL server and an Apache server
• How to create new fora

ETA Installation

More to come

Creating a new Forum

Forums are organized in a news group manner where each forum can contain a set of issues and/or one or more sub fora. However, this does not mean that this is the only way to relate issues - there can be arbitrary relationships between any issues as well as between any other document on the Web.

In principle there is no reason why new fora can't be created online. However, the current implementation has a couple of assumptions about where things can be found, so for now, you have to do some work on the local file system.

Say, you want to create a forum called Denmark as a sub-forum under Turism and that your ETA is installed in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ETA. Now do the following:

% cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ETA

% mkdir Turism/Denmark

% cp config.phi pre-template.tpl post-template.tpl Turism/Denmark

Edit the three files config.phi, pre-template.tpl, and post-template.tpl to suit your purpose.

Now you must create the forum in the ETA system itself by doing the following

1. Create (or pick and existing) contact that is going to be the default for all new issues (this is the contact with the email address defined by $issues_init_owner_email in the config file for your forum)
2. Set up the skills for the new contact so that it can handle all issues within that forum
3. Create (or pick an existing) schema for the new forum and use the address of the config file you created above.
4. Now create a new forum using the schema you just created

That should be it - you can now create new issues in that forum - have fun!