Introduction
  Installing
    Windows
    Unix
    Starting the server
    Directory structure
    Standard server
    Secure server
    User's home pages
    FTP server
    Proxy server
  Handling
  Virtual servers
  Modules
  Filesystems
  RXML tags
  Graphics
  Proxy
  Miscellaneous modules
  Security considerations
  Scripting
  Databases
  LDAP
  FrontPage
  Upgrading
  Third party extensions
  Portability
  Reporting bugs
  Appendix
 
Unix

To install the Unix version of Challenger, you will need the GNU tar or gunzip/gzip program, as Challenger is normally distributed as a tar.gz archive. To install the source package on Unix you will need an ANSI C compiler. It is currently not possible to install the source distribution from scratch on Windows, since the compilation process is quite complex.

Binary distribution

  1. cd
    to the directory where you want Challenger to be installed and place the archive there.

  2. Issue the following commands to unpack the archive:

    If you have GNU tar: 

    tar xzf Roxen_1.3.tar.gz

    If you don't have GNU tar: 

    gunzip Roxen_1.3.tar.gz
tar xf Roxen_1.3.tar
Now move on to the section Finishing.

Source distribution

  1. cd
    to the working directory where you want to compile Challenger.

  2. Issue the following commands to unpack the archive:

    If you have GNU tar: 

    tar xzf Roxen_1.3.tar.gz

    If you don't have GNU tar: 

    gunzip Roxen_1.3.tar.gz
tar xf Roxen_1.3.tar

  3. Then type: 
    cd Roxen_1.3

    to change to the Challenger directory.

  4. To continue with the default installation, type: 
    make install

    This will configure Challenger with default values, compile it and then install it in /usr/local/roxen/. If you are happy with this then you can move on to step 5.

    If you prefer a custom installation, type: 

    ./configure --prefix=path to Challenger

    prefix defaults to /usr/local/, witch places Challenger in /usr/local/roxen/

    This will take a while. When it's done, type: 

    make install

  5. The Pike interpreter and various helper programs will now be compiled and then installed.
You can later on move the roxen directory that was created when you typed make install to anywhere in your file system. Roxen does not keep any absolute paths.

Finishing the installation

  1. Type: 
    cd roxen/server/

  2. Start the install script by typing ./install

  3. Answer the questions and connect to the configuration interface URL.

Installing Pike separately
For a binary installation, follow the steps for Binary distribution above to unpack the tar archive.

  1. cd
    to the roxen directory.

  2. Type: 
    make install_pike
For a source installation, follow the steps for Source distribution for Challenger above, but type 
make install_all

instead of just make install.
or type 

make install_pike

if you have already installed Challenger.