ACS Documentation :
ACS Installation Guide :
Acceptance Tests
By running through the acceptance tests below, you'll verify that your
new ACS 4 instance is running nominally, and get acquainted with the
major administration features of the system.
Table of Contents
- Installation
- Registration
- User Administration
- Install and Enable a Package
- Using the Site Map
Installation
You should have followed the steps for installing
ACS 4; assuming the installation proceeded correctly, your server
instance should be up and running, and the root URL (http://foo.com/)
should show a login page asking for your email address and password.
Proceed to test registration below.
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Registration
You should test basic registration and the login process.
Suggested method:
- Go to the index page for the Main Site; typically the URL is
simply yourserver.com/
- Login with a new email address, and walk through registering
as a new user.
- Assuming new accounts are approved immediately, after
registration you'll be on the Workspace page for the user, where
you can see and edit personal data.
- Click the "Log out" link on the Workspace page.
- Try going back to /pvt/home.tcl again; you'll be redirected.
Login as the same user just created.
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User Administration
You should test adding a user, searching for users, modifying user
data, banning or deleting a user, and spamming a class of users.
Suggested method:
- Use the email/password combo you created during the
installation process, and login as an administrator. Go to
/acs-admin/users
- Once you're at /acs-admin/users, click on "Add a user."
Create a test user. Return to user administration,
/acs-admin/users, when done.
- Do a quick search for the newly created user, and verify that
entering part of the test user's name returns the user.
- View the list of matching users and edit the user data for
the new test user.
- Delete the test user.
- Ban the test user.
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Install and Enable a Package
The ACS Package Management system (APM) is central to operating your
ACS server, allowing you to manage ACS Applications and Services.
Applications are typically user-driven web systems such as Bboard or
News, while ACS Services are fundamental components such as the Object
System, Permissions, and the APM itself. Let's verify the
functionality of the APM by installing and enabling the Bboard
application, which your site will almost certainly need.
- Logged in as an administrator, go to /acs-admin/apm
- You'll see the "ACS Package Manager Administration" page;
this is where you can view and manage all packages on your
server. Assuming Bboard is not already installed (make sure you're
looking at Package Type: Applications), click on "Load a new
package from a URL or local directory"
- You will see the "Load a New Package" page, and a form field
where you can enter a package URL. In a separate browser window,
go to the ArsDigita Package Repository, http://www.arsdigita.com/acs-repository/,
and look for ACS 4.x packages. You should see the Bboard package
available - note the directions in the Help section as to the
correct URL to enter in the "Load a New Package" page. Enter the
URL and edit it as needed, and click on "Load."
- On the following page, the APM will visit the URL you
supplied, grab the package file, and extract it on your server's
filesystem. There should be a message saying the package is now
extracted into your filesystem. You should then follow the
"install" link at the bottom of the page to continue.
- On the "Package Installation" page, you should both install
and enable the Bboard package - ensure the checkboxes to do so are
selected , and click on the "Check Dependencies" button.
- The next page deals with installing the data model for the
package; you should see one or more SQL files with checkboxes next
to each one slated for installation. Make sure they're all
checked and click on the "Install Packages" button.
- On the final page of installation sequence, you should see
"Installing Packages," followed by messages saying the package was
enabled and installation finished. Restart the server as directed.
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Using the Site Map
One of the most flexible and powerful new features of ACS 4 is the
Site Map facility that exists for every subsite in the system. The
Site Map allows you to arbitrarily associate user-visible URLs with
packages instances, instead of having to change the underlying
filesystem directory structure. Applications can thus be deployed as
an administrator sees fit; to have a new bboard instance mapped to
foo.com/bar/bboard in addition to foo.com/fnord/bboard, she would not
need shell access to the server, nor need to copy directory trees. For
the next acceptance test, we'll "mount" an instance of the bboard
package under the Main Site (the default subsite).
- Assuming you've installed and enabled the bboard package, and
restarted the server as directed, go to the admin page again,
/acs-admin/
- We'll be working with the default subsite, Main Site, so
click on the "Main Site Administration" link.
- On the Main Site Administration page, click on the "Site Map"
link.
- You'll now see the principal Site Map page; notice how three
subfolders of the site root "/" are preinstalled: "/acs-admin"
which you've been using thus far, "/api-doc" where developers can
get detailed information on API calls, and "/doc" which is
probably where you're reading this Acceptance Test document from.
- To keep things simple, let's have our bboard instance be
mapped to a sub-folder of the root "/" level. On the first row
which starts with "/" click on the "new sub folder" link.
- You'll see a form field asking for the name of the sub
folder. Type in "test-bboard" and click the "New" button.
- You should now see "test-bboard" in the list of URLs for the
Main Site. Click on the "new application" link in the same row to
begin creating an instance of the bboard package on "test-bboard"
- You'll now see a field where the package instance can be
named, and a drop-down menu of packages. Call the instance "Test
Bboard" and select bboard from the list of packages, and click
"New" to continue.
- A Bboard instance is now running on the URL "/test-bboard" on
your site! To go there, just click on the link "Test Bboard"
under the Application column on the Site Map page, or visit the
URL directly in your browser.
This covers the basics of getting a user-visible application up on ACS
4 - you can now install and deploy more packages, drop mappings, and
otherwise configure the functionality and organization of your site
as you see fit.
bquinn@arsdigita.com
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