Working with Linux ABCD

Linux ABCD is a handy tool for the automation of libraries and documentation centers. It offers several distributions for linux and windows systems. More information can be found on this great tool at: http://bvsmodelo.bvsalud.org/php/index.php

To install this tool on the linux plaform you will need to download the tar gz distribution of linux abcd. You will then need to untar the file and move the contents to a publicly accessible web directory. Make sure that the correct selinux contexts are users or linux abcd will not work. The contents of the tar file should look like the following

/var/www/abcd
[root@computer abcd]# ls -l
total 32
drwxrwxrwx 25 536 549 4096 Nov 27  2009 bases
drwxrwxr-x  4 536 549 4096 Nov 27  2009 cgi-bin
drwxrwxr-x 10 536 549 4096 Nov 27  2009 htdocs
drwxrwxr-x  4 536 549 4096 Nov 16  2009 temp

Once the source is placed in the web directory you will need to configure your web server, in this case apache to point to the document root of the abcd application. This can be found in the htdocs section shown above. After the web server configurations are in place and the service is restarted you can navigate your browser to the place where it resides. For example http://localhost/abcd

You will then be able to interact with the system.

ABCD also has support for mysql which is helpful if you plan on building larger scale systems.