Part II. LiveJournal Installation
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LiveJournal Installation

The following chapters cover the basics of installing LiveJournal, and is geared towards LiveJournal being installed on any operating system that resembles unix. Throughout this part we'll include installation tips for users of Debian GNU/Linux[o]», because this is our operating system of choice.

We do assume that you are familiar, at least somewhat, with the technologies covered in this manual, because although it's certainly not necessary to be an expert to install LiveJournal, it helps to know the concepts and tasks involved in this kind of undertaking.

If you have any questions, or encounter any problems not easily remedied, feel free to join the ‘LiveJournal Everywhere![o]»’ Community.

Table of Contents

5. Requirements
6. Perl
1. Installing Perl
2. Installing Perl Modules
7. General Setup
1. $LJHOME Environment Variable
2. Installing the files
8. Apache
1. Installation
1.1. mod_perl
1.2. Apache suEXEC Support
1.3. Virtual Hosts
2. Example httpd.conf
9. Configuring ljconfig.pl
1. $LJ:: Variables
1.1. User-Configurable
1.2. Auto-Configured
2. %LJ::HELPURLS
3. %LJ::DISABLED
4. Configuring %LJ::DBINFO
5. Setting Capabilities
10. MySQL
1. Install MySQL
2. Create the LiveJournal Database
3. Populate the Database
11. Scheduling Maintenence tasks
12. Finishing Up
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