3 Installing the Harvest Software

• 3.1 Requirements for Harvest Servers
  • 3.1.1 Hardware
  • 3.1.2 Platforms
  • 3.1.3 Software
• 3.2 Requirements for Harvest Users
• 3.3 Retrieving and Installing the Harvest Software
  • 3.3.1 Distribution types
  • 3.3.2 Optional Harvest components
  • 3.3.3 User-contributed software
  • 3.3.4 Unpacking a binary distribution
• 3.4 Building the Source Distribution
  • Building individual Harvest components
• 3.5 Installing the Harvest software
  • 3.5.1 Additional installation for the Harvest Broker
    • Checking the installation for HTTP access
    • Required modifications to the Broker's CGI programs
    • Required modifications to your HTTP server
    • CERN httpd v3.0
    • NCSA httpd v1.3 or v1.4; Apache httpd v0.8.8
    • GN HTTP server
    • Plexus HTTP server
    • Other HTTP servers
• 3.6 Upgrading versions of the Harvest software
  • 3.6.1 Upgrading from version 1.3 to version 1.4
  • 3.6.2 Upgrading from version 1.2 to version 1.3
  • 3.6.3 Upgrading from version 1.1 to version 1.2
  • 3.6.4 Upgrading to version 1.1 from version 1.0 or older
• 3.7 Starting up the system: RunHarvest and related commands
• 3.8 Harvest team contact information