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1. onCourse set up

 

If you install onCourse yourself, rather than using the managed service from ish, you’ll need to configure the environment into which you install onCourse. You will need:

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• A unix, linux, OSX or Windows operating system

• A database. No database specific features are used, but onCourse is regularly tested with MariaDB, MySQL, and Amazon Aurora RDS. Others like postgresql or SQL Server might also work, but aren’t regularly tested.

• An outbound mail server (smtp)

• Java 11 or higher

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1.1. Installing dependencies

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On MacOS, use homebrew to install many of the requirements.

1. Install homebrew.

2. Install MariaDB 10.4. brew install mariadb@10.4

3. Install Java. ` brew tap homebrew/cask-versions; brew install temurin11`

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Now set up your database.

1. brew services start mariadb to start the server

2. mysql_secure_installation and configure the root account.

3. mysql -uroot -p to log in to the SQL console and execute some commands to create a user. Use a proper secure password instead of 'password123'.

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