OpenACS Installation: Welcome

Thank you for installing the Open Architecture Community System (OpenACS), a suite of fully-integrated enterprise-class solutions for collaborative commerce. This is the OpenACS Installer which performs all the steps necessary to get the OpenACS Community System running on your server.

Please read the Release Notes before proceeding to better understand what is contained in this release.

Your PostgreSQL driver is correctly installed and configured.

System Configuration

We'll need to create a site-wide administrator for your server (like the root user in UNIX). Please type in the email address, first and last name, and password for this user.
System Administrator
Email: [*]
Username:
First Name: [*]
Last Name: [*]
Password: [*]
Password (again): [*]
 
System URL: [*]
The canonical URL of your system as visible from the outside world
Usually it should include the port if your server is not on port 80

System Name: [*]
The name of your system.

Publisher Name: [*]
The legal name of the person or corporate entity responsible for the site.

System Owner:
The email address signed at the bottom of user-visible pages.

Admin Owner:
The email address signed on administrative pages.

Host Administrator:
A person whom people can contact if they experience technical problems.

Outgoing Email Sender:
The email address that will sign outgoing alerts.
New Registration Email:
The email address to send New registration notifications.

[*] About username

Once your server is installed, you can choose to have users login with username instead of email. This is particularly useful if you're authenticating against other services, such as LDAP or the local operating system, which may not use email as the basis of authentication.

gatekeepers@openacs.org