DiscoverEd Quickstart: Difference between revisions

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How to install DiscoverEd

1. Run this command to download a quickstart script.

wget http://gitorious.org/discovered/repo/blobs/raw/deploy_script/gimme-discovered

2. Edit the script and change MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD to the right thing.

3. Run this command to execute the script.

bash gimme-discovered

What does the script do?

This will do a few things:

Install the DiscoverEd code in /var/lib/discovered
Add a sample curator, and a sample feed
Download the web pages linked to by that feed
Run a test search for the term "crime", and print the results to your terminal

The above steps are performed by DiscoverEd. Next, we install a copy of the excellent web server Tomcat, which will allow to you perform searches through your web browser. So the script will do a few more things:

Install a copy of the excellent web server Tomcat in the same place
Run that copy of Tomcat
Open the search engine in Firefox

Or do it manually

See DiscoverEd/Install manually.

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 [[Category:DiscoverEd]]
-{{Stub}}
-=== Check out and build the source code ===
+== How to install DiscoverEd ==
-<pre>
-$ git clone git://gitorious.org/discovered/repo.git discovered
+. Run this command to download a quickstart script.
-$ cd discovered
-$ ant
+<pre style='margin: 0 0 2em 2em;'>
+wget http://gitorious.org/discovered/repo/blobs/raw/deploy_script/gimme-discovered
 </pre>
-=== Add a curator and a feed ===
+. Edit the script and change <tt>MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD</tt> to the right thing.
+. Run this command to execute the script.
+<pre style='margin: 0 0 2em 2em;'>
+bash gimme-discovered
+</pre>
-DiscoverEd uses feeds to help identify resources to crawl.  Feeds are provided by curators, who can also provide metadata about resources.
+=== What does the script do? ===
-<pre>
+This will do a few things:
-$ ./bin/feeds addcurator "ND OCW" http://ocw.nd.edu/
+* Install the DiscoverEd code in /var/lib/discovered
-$ ./bin/feeds addfeed rss http://ocw.nd.edu/front-page/courselist/rss http://ocw.nd.edu/
+* Add a sample curator, and a sample feed
-</pre>
+* Download the web pages linked to by that feed
+* Run a test search for the term "crime", and print the results to your terminal
-=== Aggregate and crawl resources ===
+The above steps are performed by DiscoverEd. Next, we install a copy of the excellent web server Tomcat, which will allow to you perform searches through your web browser. So the script will do a few more things:
+* Install a copy of the excellent web server Tomcat in the same place
+* Run that copy of Tomcat
+* Open the search engine in Firefox
-<pre>
+== Or do it manually ==
-$ ./bin/feeds aggregate
-$ mkdir seed
-$ ./bin/feeds seed > seed/urls.txt
-$ ant -f dedbuild.xml crawl
-</pre>
-=== Run the web server ===
+See '''[[DiscoverEd/Install manually]]'''.