Table of Contents

Preface

1. Install OLAT using the easy installer

2. Install OLAT in a productive environment

2.1. Prerequisites

2.2. New OLAT installation

2.2.1. Install the prerequisites

2.2.2. Getting the sources.

2.2.3. OLAT configuration

2.3. Database and UTF-8 configuration

2.3.1. MySQL

2.3.2. Postgres

2.3.3. Other databases

2.3.4. JUnit tests

2.4. Tomcat and Apache configuration

2.4.1. Standalone: Tomcat using the HTTP connector

2.4.2. Combined: Tomcat and Apache using the JK connector

2.4.3. Tomcat VM parameters and Operating System issues

2.5. Configuring the wiki rendering engine to display TeX mathematic formulas

2.6. Enabling the Instant Messaging component

2.6.1. Basic install with mysql database

2.6.2. Features explained

2.6.3. Issues

2.7. Enabling the Shibboleth login

2.8. Directory structure, which files are important

2.9. Configuration Script

2.10. Setup graphical server monitoring using MRTG

2.10.1. Install MRTG

2.10.2. Build the configuration file

2.10.3. Installing the monitoring crontabs

2.10.4. Configuring Apache

2.10.5. Interpreting the images

2.11. Setup Fulltext Search

3. Upgrading from previous installation

3.1. General upgrade concept

3.2. Upgrading from 2.x

3.3. Upgrading from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1

3.4. Upgrading from 3.0.1 to 3.1

3.5. Upgrading from 3.1.0 to 3.1.2

3.6. Upgrading from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3

3.7. Upgrading from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4

3.8. Upgrading from 3.1.4 to 3.2.0

3.8.1. Conversion of the existing Filesystem

3.8.2. Converting and Altering of the database

3.9. Upgrading from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1

3.10. Upgrading from 3.2.1 to 4.0.0

3.11. Upgrading from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1

3.12. Upgrading from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2

3.13. Upgrading from 4.0.2 to 4.1.1

3.14. Upgrading from 4.1.1 to 4.1.4

3.15. Upgrading from 4.1.4 to 5.0.x

3.16. Upgrading from 5.0.x to 5.1.x

3.16.1. Conversion of wiki's

4. Customize your installation

4.1. CSS and HTML pages

4.1.1. How it works

4.1.2. Style OLAT using CSS and images

4.1.3. Main layout files

4.1.4. OLAT GUI debug mode

4.1.5. Diving into the java source code from OLAT

4.2. Internationalization and translations

4.2.1. Concept

4.2.2. Configuration

4.2.3. The online translation tool

4.2.4. Files not covered by the Online Translation Tool

5. Administration

5.1. System information

5.1.1. sessions

5.1.2. infomsg

5.1.3. errors

5.1.4. loglevels

5.1.5. sysinfo

5.1.6. snoop

5.1.7. usersessions

5.1.8. locks

5.1.9. Multi-user events

5.1.10. olatsysinfo

5.1.11. caches

5.2. Quota Management

5.3. Access Rights

5.3.1. Examples

5.4. Properties

5.5. Advanced properties

5.5.1. Example Info Message

5.5.2. Example PASSED true for a certain test

5.6. Translation tool

5.7. Full Text Search Administration

6. Contact, mailinglists and support

6.1. Mailinglists

6.2. Support

7. OLAT software license

8. Change history