Requirements checklist¶
- Ensure you have a Windows server running Windows Server 2008 or newer
- Ensure your server has the .NET Framework version 4.0 or newer installed
- Confirm that you can create a new Web site in IIS on this server
- Confirm that you will be permitted to configure it so that Web site files can be writable by the Windows user who owns the IIS process (typically the
IIS_IUSRS
group). - Ensure you have access to a Microsoft SQL Server version 2008 or newer
- Ensure that you'll be able to authenticate in SQL Server authentication mode
- Confirm that you'll be able to create a database
- Ensure that you have a mail server with an accessible SMTP port or the ability to deliver mail from a service running on the Web server
- The latest release of the GRA software downloaded from GitHub.
Configuration information you'll need¶
Configuration step 1: database configuration¶
- Database server name or IP address
- Database/catalog name
- Database owner user login (the user in the
db_owner
role) - Database owner user password
- Database regular user login (the user in the
db_datareader
anddb_datawriter
roles) - Database regular user password
Configuration step 2: mail server configuration¶
- The administrator's email address - you may want to set up a role address ahead of time so that system emails don't appear to come from your personal address
- Mail server (optional) - SMTP server to handle emails. If you do not specify one, it will leave them on the server (in
c:\inetpub\smtp\
by default) to be picked up by mail delivery software - Mail server port (optional) - by default 25 will be used
- Mail server login (optional) - if you need to authenticate to send email
- Mail server password (optional)
Configuration step 3: select an initial program configuration¶
Your final decision is which initial program configuration to choose:
- You can opt to set up with a single reading program
- You can opt to set up with four age-specific reading programs.
For more information on these options, please review the planning section of this manual.