Creating installation directories

Create the directory structure that will be used for installation.

Notes

• For proper operation of the system, Project Portal should reside on a local disk, not on a file system accessed over the network such as AFS or NFS.
• A full installation requires approximately 100 megabytes of disk space depending on the configuration. You should note that additional space will be needed for storing logs and files (for example, .doc,.pdf) into the system.
• For security reasons, Project Portal should not be installed in the scope of the web server. That is, anywhere under its document root directory. The installation script will make the main program and a few auxiliary files accessible from the Internet but everything else including project documents should be hidden from the web server. The access control mechanism of Project Portal requires that the system itself provides access to projects and that their contents cannot be retrieved by any other means. Thus, make sure that the directory that you specify for the system does not reside under the htdocs sub-directory of the server sub-tree, the name of which you will specify later.

The directories can be created with the following commands:

$ mkdir /home/kronodoc/pp2012_2
$ cd /home/kronodoc/pp2012_2
~/pp2012_2$ mkdir install