RevealWeb

Contents test Overview Requirements Installation (Windows) Step 1 WAMP Installation Download Install Test Configure PHP Step 2 Reveal Installation Download Install Configure Step 3 Testing Installation (Linux) Coming soon.

Overview

Web 2.0 data entry interface to REVEAL archaeological database

Requirements

• WAMP/LAMP stack.
• Apache 2 on Windows/Linux Although any web server supporting php should do.
• PHP 5.2+
• Client Browser's Supported
We use some HTML5 so newer browsers are recommended
• FireFox 3.6+
• Chrome 16.0+
• IE is not supported.

Windows Installation

• WAMP Download
We recommend using WAMP but any windows LAMP stype stack will do.
• Download your 32 or 64 bit install script here.
Feel free to bypass the form and select the download directly link

• After opening the downloaded program you should see the screen below.



• Select Next Accept the Agreement and get the following screen.



• For support reasons accept the default c:\wamp

This will aid us in trouble shooting but feel free to relocate.


• Accept default settings from previous screens and select Install



• You should now see the WAMP icon in the bottom right toolbar on your desktop.
If so you have successfully configured the WAMP ssever. Now test.



• WAMP Test
• Now we will perform some basic testing before installing RevealWeb click on the icon.

The following menu should appear. From this screen you can start/stop and configure your all WAMP services.



• Clck on Localhost at the top of the menu. If you already have a browser open you can just enter 'localhost'

You should see screen below appear, if so the web server is working ok.



• Finally go to the main menu and select Restart All Services

The icon should go from green to red to orange back to green

If so all appears ok. We can now configure PHP

• PHP Configuration

• We need several several extentions activated for RevealWeb we start by clicking the WAMP icon.

From the menu choose PHP -> PHP Extentions the following menu should appear.



• We need to now enable php_curl and php_exif You may need to select them individually.

php_curl is needed for uploading 3d models remotely. php_exif is needed for uploading images into the database

The menu should now reflect php_exif and php_curl checked off.



• Now comes some manual editing. This may go away with our upcoming install kit, but for now

Open the WAMP menu icon and select PHP -> php.ini The screen below should show.



At this point a popup Notepad window should appear, we will need to edit the following entries.

Since we deal with larger files let's make our maxes at least 1G

Url post size From:

post_max_size = 8M

To:

post_max_size = 1000M

Disk upload size From:

upload_max_filesize = 2M

To:

upload_max_filesize = 1000M

We now need to move extension=php_exif.dll after extension=php_mbstring.dll to fix the brain dead PHP install.

            extension=php_curl.dll
            ;extension=php_dba.dll
            extension=php_exif.dll
            ;extension=php_fileinfo.dll
            extension=php_gd2.dll
            ;extension=php_gettext.dll
            ;extension=php_gmp.dll
            ;extension=php_intl.dll
            ;extension=php_imap.dll
            ;extension=php_interbase.dll
            ;extension=php_ldap.dll
            extension=php_mbstring.dll
        

Should now look like this.

            extension=php_curl.dll
            ;extension=php_dba.dll
            ;extension=php_fileinfo.dll
            extension=php_gd2.dll
            ;extension=php_gettext.dll
            ;extension=php_gmp.dll
            ;extension=php_intl.dll
            ;extension=php_imap.dll
            ;extension=php_interbase.dll
            ;extension=php_ldap.dll
            extension=php_mbstring.dll
            extension=php_exif.dll
        

Now restart all services



If we get the green icon back we are Ready to install RevealWeb

• Reveal Installation

Since the WAMP server is working the RevealWeb initial installation involves three simple steps to get going

• Download and unzip the revealWeb source.
• Import the database schema.
• Rum some simple test tasks
• Dowload the main zip file from the main site RevealWeb it delays a few seconds, no worries.

  You will select Extract all and point it into wherever you installed WAMP in our case c:\wamp

  

  It's working

  

  If it's a new install just say Yes.

  

  The Reveal install should be done. Now just install RevelWeb and import a database.

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