WWW::Kontent INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS                     
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A couple warnings before we begin:

*** THIS SYSTEM WILL NOT RUN IN PERL 5.  IT REQUIRES THE EXPERIMENTAL PERL 6 ***
*** COMPILER, PUGS, AND THE CROSS-LANGUAGE PARROT INTERPRETER.               ***

*** THIS RELEASE IS AN EARLY ALPHA, AND IS BY NO MEANS READY FOR DEPLOYMENT. ***
*** IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT USING THIS FOR ANYTHING REAL YET, YOU'RE NUTS.  ***
*** IT MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA, ERASE YOUR HARD DRIVE, MAX OUT ALL YOUR CREDIT ***
*** CARDS, OR TELL YOUR MOTHER EXACTLY WHAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING WITH THAT      ***
*** LOVELY GIRL YOU'RE GOING OUT WITH.  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!                ***

Now that that's over with...

PREREQUISITES
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Kontent requires the following:

  * A recent version of Parrot.  Kontent has not been tested with Parrot 0.2.2, 
    but it is likely to be incompatible with it; your best bet is probably to 
    check Parrot out of the development repository.
    
  * A recent version of Pugs, built with Perl 5 embedding.  (Building Pugs 
    requires the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, version 6.4.)  A properly-configured 
    Pugs 6.2.9 should be sufficient.
    
    The script files that ship with Kontent assume that Pugs will be located at 
    /usr/bin/pugs.  If your machine is not configured this way, be sure to 
    adjust the shebang lines.
    
  * A SQL database engine.  (Kontent has been tested with MySQL 4.0, but the 
    SQL used is fairly simple; you may need to create the tables by hand, 
    however.)
    
  * The Perl 5 DBI module and an appropriate DBD for your database engine.
    
  * A web server capable of running CGI scripts, such as Apache.

To build a usable copy of Pugs:

  * Download and install Parrot.
    
      $ cd /home/user
      $ svn checkout http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot
      $ cd parrot
      $ perl Configure.pl
      $ make
      $ make test				# A few test failures are okay.
    
  * Download and install Pugs with Perl 5 and Parrot embedding.
    
      $ cd /home/user
      $ wget http://pugscode.org/dist/Perl6-Pugs-6.2.9.tar.gz
      $ tar xzf Perl6-Pugs-6.2.9.tar.gz
      $ cd pugs
      $ PUGS_EMBED='perl5 parrot' PARROT_PATH=/home/user/parrot perl Makefile.PL
      $ make
      $ make test				# Expect plenty of fireworks.
      $ sudo make install		# Or su -c 'make install'

SETTING UP
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Unpack the Kontent distribution into a directory somewhere.  (Your home folder 
may work, although you may have to tweak your permissions to allow it.)  Enter 
that directory and perform the following steps:

  * Edit kontent-config.yaml to reflect the details of your database.  You may 
    want to create a new database and user for Kontent to use.
    
  * Run the following command to create the database tables and the root page:
      $ pugs -MWWW::Kontent -e 'WWW::Kontent::make_root'
    
    If your database engine can't seem to handle the CREATE TABLE statements, 
    you'll have to create the tables manually.  Open 
    WWW/Kontent/Store/NarrowDBI.pm and search for "sub make_root" to find the 
    statements, then adjust them as needed and run the result on your database
    engine.  Once the tables have been created, run the above command again; 
    make_root will only try to create the tables if they don't already exist.
    
  * Add the following to your Apache httpd.conf file and restart httpd:
    
      Alias /kontent /path/to/test.p6
    
    Of course, other web servers will require other commands.  For the moment, 
    your Kontent instance *must* be located at /kontent; this will be 
    configurable in future versions.  (If you aren't happy with this, you can 
    modify WWW/Kontent/Renderer/HTML.pm--it only appears in a few places.)

ACCESSING KONTENT
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Open your web browser and navigate to http://servername/kontent.  You should 
see the root page, which will contain further instructions.

Enjoy!