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 ====== How to test the software ======
-The EXAMPLE application that is included in the source tree (app/example)
+After installing the METAMOD software, read the [[https://svn.met.no/viewvc/metamod/trunk/docs/html/deploying.html?view=co|Deployment Guide]] to find how to setup a METAMOD application (a site, basically).
-can be used to test the software. The following steps describes how to do
-this.
-. Edit the ''app/example/master_config.txt'' file. Several variables in this file
-must be adjusted according to the local computer environment. The most
-important are:
-|SERVER                     |The server name on which the software should run (something like mycomputer.mydomain.com). |
-|SOURCE_DIRECTORY           |The absolute path of the source directory where the software is found. |
-|TARGET_DIRECTORY           |The target directory to which the software is installed. Must NOT be a  subdirectory of the SOURCE_DIRECTORY. |
-|ADMIN_DOMAIN               |This will typically be the domain found in the SERVER variable (like mydomain.com). |
-|BASE_PART_OF_EXTERNAL_URL  |This is the initial part of URLs that external links to the web applications are to use. It will typically be http://mycomputer.mydomain.com or http://mycomputer.mydomain.com:8080 if you are using an unusual port. |
-|LOCAL_URL                  |Appended to BASE_PART_OF_EXTERNAL_URL, this represents the top URL for the web applications. URLs for the individual applications are constructed by appending directory names for each of the applications to this top URL. |
-|WEBRUN_DIRECTORY           |The top directory for the runtime environment. |
-|OPENDAP_DIRECTORY          |The top directory of the data repository. This directory is assumed to be accessible through an OPeNDAP server which has to be installed as a separate package (not part of METAMOD 2.x). If no OPeNDAP server is installed, the METAMOD 2.x software will mostly work, apart from links to data files from the web applications. |
-|OPENDAP_URL                |The URL used to access the data files. If no OPeNDAP server is installed, use an URL for HTTP download. |
-|OPERATOR_EMAIL             |E-mail address for the person responsible for operating the METAMOD 2.x installation. |
-The ''app/example/master_config.txt'' file is already configured for testing,
-meaning that E-mails sent from the system to users are sent to the
-operator instead, and that the system works on a "virtual timescale"
-which goes faster than real time. But one variable has to be adjusted in the
-'Test configuration' section of the master_config.txt:
-|TEST_IMPORT_BASETIME    |This variable should be set to the value returned by the upload/scripts/show_time_now.pl script, which returns the current time as "seconds since the epoch". |
-. To copy the software to the target directory and make the substitutions
-prescribed by the master_config.txt file, do the following:
-  cd to the source directory (i.e. the top METAMOD 2.x directory)
-  run:    ./update_target.pl app/example
-. Assuming the PostgreSQL software is already installed, the PostgreSQL
-users (admin and webuser) that are to access the database must be created.
-This step is only needed one time. PostgreSQL users are for the whole
-PostgreSQL installation, and not connected to specific databases.
-  cd to the target directory
-  run:    scripts/createusers.sh
-. Initialize the runtime environment:
-  cd to the target directory
-  run:    ./prepare_runtime_env.sh
-. Initialize the database, and load static data:
-  cd to the target directory
-  cd init
-  run:    ./create_and_load_all.sh
-You may check the output of this script in the create_and_load_all.out
-file in the same init directory. Also check the databaselog (path given by
-the LOGFILE variable in ''master_config.txt'').
-. Ensure that you have a working Apache 2.x installation with PHP 5.x.
-The httpd daemon should run as the same user as the METAMOD 2.x perl scripts.
-Otherwise problems with access rights to files created by PHP and perl
-respectively will araise. These problems could be solved by using 'umask'
-and similar tools, but the METAMOD 2.x software is not prepared for this.
-The same runtime user for PHP and the perl scripts is assumed.
-The Apache installation must allow ''.htaccess'' files and softlinks.
-. Make the METAMOD 2.x URLs accessible through the Apache server. This can
-either be done by making the METAMOD 2.x htdocs directory the Apache 2.x
-DocumentRoot directory. Otherwise, this can be done by providing a symbolic
-link in the Apache 2.x DocumentRoot directory to the METAMOD 2.x htdocs
-directory. This symbolic link must agree with the LOCAL_URL set up in the
-master_config.txt file.
-. At this time all the web applications should work. Confirm this by visiting
-the URLs for the two main web pages in the example application
-(METAMODSEARCH and METAMODUPLOAD) from a browser (the URLs are found in
-the ''master_config.txt'' file). Check also that the administration web
-page is working.
-. Enter the METAMODUPLOAD web page from a browser and create a user
-account. The operator will recieve an E-mail with the user details and an URL.
-Activating this URL will admit the user into the system. After activating this
-URL, the user recieves an E-mail with a password. In the test environment,
-this E-mail will be sent to the operator instead.
-. Start the perl scripts responsible for loading data into the database:
-  cd to the target directory
-  run:     ./start_services.sh
-. Enter the METAMODUPLOAD web page from a browser and log into the
-user account you have created. Enter the "Administration" page and create
-the directory 'test1' (this will also be the name of a new dataset that
-later will be loaded into the database). Go back to the "Upload files" page
-and upload the two files ''test1_arctic20.200611.cdl'' and ''test1_synop_99710.cdl''
-found in the testdata directory.
-. After a few minutes, check that metadata from the files have been
-loaded into the database. This can be done by looking at the databaselog
-(path defined by the LOGFILE variable in master_config.txt), and by
-entering the METAMODSEARCH web page and search for the data.
-You may also consult the output files from the two perl scripts started
-by start_services.sh: upload_monitor.out and import_dataset.out.
-. Do a similar exercise with the files ''test2_arctic20.200611.cdl'' and
-''test2_synop_99710.cdl''. A new directory/dataset has to be created for these
-files in the administration page: 'test2'. These files do not satisfy the
-requirements specified in the ''etc/conf_digest_nc.xml'' file. The perl script
-digesting these files will generate an error report that will be accessible
-from the METAMODUPLOAD web page. Also, the data provider will be
-sent an E-mail with a reference to this error report. In the test environment,
-this E-mail will be sent to the operator instead.
-. Stop the perl scripts responsible for loading data into the database:
-  cd to the target directory
-  run:     ./stop_services.sh