Typical Installation

In typical mode, the installation program installs the following:

Pre-installation requirements

Make sure that your disk has atleast 120 MB of free disk space. The typical cinema installation occupies 65 MB of disk (including space for Apache, Tcl and MySQL). Depending on your organization's requirements, you may need 10 MB or more for logs, user databases, and voicemails. In addition, during the installation process, your login account must have Administrator privileges so that the install software can set registry variables and install services. If you are installing it on a Windows NT/2000 machine, your computer must have a DNS suffix configured. For example, if your email id is admin@example.com, your computer can have a suffix in which example.com is a suffix. The figure below shows an example Windows 2000 machine domain configuration.

Keep the following ready:

Installation Procedure

Run the Setup program. The installer will unpack and install the various components. You will be presented with a set of popup menus where you need to enter configuration information. If you don't have the accurate information for any configuration parameter during the setup phase, you can simply use the defaults that the setup program shows you. Later on, you can edit these variables through the CINEMA web interface. The various popups are briefly described below:

Post Installation

  1. Shortcuts for MySQL, Apache, and Tcl will be placed both in the Desktop and in the Program Menu. Shortcuts for all CINEMA applications will also be placed in Desktop and Program Menu(under the subgroup CINEMA).
  2. CINEMA has a web interface that allows you to create, and manage user accounts. User's of your organization can login into it by typing http://your-server-name/cinema, and entering their userid. The installation program will automatically create an administrator account for you using the email id you entered during installation. The password is root. You can test your installation by
    1. Click on 'Start Apache' desktop icon.
    2. Click on 'Start mysqld' desktop icon.
    3. Click on the CINEMA shortcut placed on your desktop. This will start Internet Explorer and load http://localhost/cinema.
    4. Click on Login.
    5. Enter your email id as user name and root as password.
    . This should log you in.
  3. A resolv.conf file will be placed inside the sipd subfolder of your installation. This file will have entries for your top level domain, and your primary name server. You need to check and edit this file suitably. specifically, set the nameserver to the DNS servers of your organization, set the domain name to your top level domain. The search order is the DNS search order (these values can be obtained from Start-> Settings -> Network and Dialup settings -> Local Area Connection -> TCP/IP -> Advanced -> DNS).
  4. MySQL will be installed by default in C:\mysql. The default account name is 'root' with no password. Tcl8.3 is installed by default in C:\Program Files\Tcl. Apache is installed at C:\Program Files\ Apache Group\Apache.

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    Last updated by Sankaran Narayanan@ Internet Real-Time Laboratory