Setup UCenter Home

First, download the installation package at http://download.comsenz.com/UCenter_Home/2.0/UCenter_Home_2.0_TC_UTF8.zip.  Again I choose the Traditional Chinese edition with UTF-8 encoding.  Under the root’s shell, issue the following commands to download and unpack the installation package.

mkdir ~/setup-ucenter-home
cd ~/setup-ucenter-home
wget http://download.comsenz.com/UCenter_Home/2.0/\
UCenter_Home_2.0_TC_UTF8.zip
unzip UCenter_Home_2.0_TC_UTF8.zip

I would like UCenter Home to be installed at http://u.tcpo.org.  Because I have put UCenter into http://u.tcpo.org/ucenter, I can save put UCenter Home into the document root fof the domain, i.e. /var/www/html/u.tcpo.org/

cp -pr upload/* /var/www/html/u.tcpo.org/

Then I need to create config.php based on config.new.php

cd /var/www/html/u.tcpo.org
cp config.new.php config.php

Next permissions for some files and directories need to be changed in order for UCenter Home to run correctly.

chmod 777 attachment
chmod 777 data
chmod 777 data/*.*
chmod 777 uc_client/data
chmod 777 config.php

During the setup of UCenter Home, you need to make one user the administrator.  Visit http://u.tcpo.org/ucenter/admin.php, login with the 創始人密碼.  In the category 用戶管理, click on 添加用戶.  Enter the information required to create your first user.

Then, go to the category 應用管理, click on 添加新應用.  Enter the URL of http://u.tcpo.org/install/index.php and then click 安裝.  After that, the UCenter Home installation guide is shown.

1. 安裝開始

Here file/directory permission check is done.  If it is all ok, then proceed with the installation.

2. 設置UCenter訊息

Here UCenter information is pre-filled, normally you don’t need to change anything, just click on the submit button.  After that, you will be shown a message telling you that the application is successfully installed, go to the next step.

3. 設置數據庫連接訊息

Here we will reuse the same database connection parameters as that we have setup for UCenter.

數據庫服務器本地地址: localhost
數據庫用戶名: uc
數據庫密碼: <password>
數據庫字符集: UTF-8
數據庫名: UC
表名前綴: uchome_

6. 安裝完成

Here enter the user name and password of the administrator

After that, the installation guide is completed.  To safeguard the system, do the following.

cd /var/www/html/u.tcpo.org
rm -rf install
chmod 644 config.php

If you go into the administrative interface of UCenter Home, you will notice an error saying:

File: /var/www/html/u.tcpo.org/./data/tpl_cache/template_default_cp_advance.php can not be write!

This can be fixed on changing permission on the data/tpl_cache directory.

chmod -R 777 data/tpl_cache

Now everything is completed, you can enter http://u.tcpo.org/admincp.php to fine tune your configuration.

1. UCenter 1.5.0 安装介绍
2. UCenter Home 2.0 安装方法详细介绍

Here’s what I want to achieve: setup UCenter Home 2.0 on a dedicated linux server.  And since installing UCenter Home is a 2 step process of installing UCenter first and then UCenter Home, I break it into 2 posts.  This post covers installing UCenter.  In next post I’ll talk about UCenter Home.

Setup UCenter

UCenter is the pre-requisite of installing UCenter Home 2.0.  UCenter stands for “User Center” and is the integral part of Comsenz’ products.

First, download the installation package at http://download.comsenz.com/UCenter/1.5.0/UCenter_1.5.0_TC_UTF8.zip.  Here I choose the Traditional Chinese edition with UTF-8 encoding.  Under the root’s shell, issue the following commands to download and unpack the installation package.

mkdir ~/setup-ucenter
cd ~/setup-ucenter
wget http://download.comsenz.com/UCenter/1.5.0/\
UCenter_1.5.0_TC_UTF8.zip
unzip UCenter_1.5.0_TC_UTF8.zip

I would like UCenter Home to be installed at http://u.tcpo.org.  Because UCenter and UCenter Home cannot be installed under the same directory, I decided to put UCenter under http://u.tcpo.org/ucenter.  The document root of the domain u.tcpo.org is /var/www/html/u.tcpo.org in my server.

mkdir /var/www/html/u.tcpo.org
cp -pr upload /var/www/html/u.tcpo.org/ucenter

Then I need to change permission to some files and directories to allow read/write by apache.

cd /var/www/html/u.tcpo.org/ucenter
chmod 777 data
chmod 777 data/avatar
chmod 777 data/backup
chmod 777 data/cache
chmod 777 data/logs
chmod 777 data/tmp
chmod 777 data/view

Next, I need to configure apache so that it responds to virtual host u.tcpo.org.  The following section is put inside /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName u.tcpo.org
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/u.tcpo.org
        CustomLog logs/u.tcpo.org-access_log combined
        ErrorLog logs/u.tcpo.org-error_log
</VirtualHost>

Then restart apache.

service httpd restart

I also need to prepare a MySQL database and a MySQL user because running the UCenter installation guide.

CREATE DATABASE UC;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON UC.* TO "uc"@"localhost" \
  IDENTIFIED BY "<password>";
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Now I can visit the UCenter installation site at http://u.tcpo.org/ucenter/install.  A license agreement will be shown, click “我同意” to proceed.  After that, a step-by-step installation guide will guide you through the setup procedure.

1. 開始安裝

This step checks the server configuration to see if it meets UCenter’s requirement.  If everything’s fine, you will see everything “ticked”.

2. 安裝數據庫

Here I enter the database access information.

數據庫服務器: localhost
數據庫名: UC
數據庫用戶名: uc
數據庫密碼: <password>
數據表前綴: uc_

I also need to setup a 創始人密碼.

3. 安裝數據庫

You should see messages saying that database tables are successfully created.  If not, check your database access parameters entered in step 2.

Now UCenter is completely setup.  You can use the 創始人密碼 to login into UCenter 用戶管理中心 to have a look around.