[ihris-developers] Notes on Setup, etc.

[Mark A. Hershberger]

I committed the SQL structure that Luke sent to me to the I2CE
structure.  MySQL complained to me when I tried to use the structure to
set up a database.  In particular, the path and children columns of the
config table were too big.  I changed both columns to text and they
worked.

Another change I made was starting to add emacs mode lines to the top of
files.  For now, just lib/I2CE.php.  Let me know if this is too onerous.

With some help from Carl online, I started a “first time install”
document for Manage in doc/first-time-setup.txt.

I also changed order of configuration loading and moved the hard-coded
path for $i2ce_site_i2ce_path so that it is always loaded from the
configuration.  I did this so that defaults can be put in
pages/config.values.php and be overridden in
pages/local/config.values.php.

With my default Apache/PHP configuration, I had to reload the front page
a few times because it kept timing out on some operation.  If we have
operations that are going to take a while (> 30s) to complete for the
initial setup, we should probably create some intermediate “Loading…”
pages.

I'm letting it go tonight from there.  It looks like something funky is
going on with mod_rewrite at the moment.

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