Installing a BOINC server

To create a BOINC server you must have the following software installed:

Unzip and untar the BOINC release, and compile it by typing "configure" and "make". To install in /usr/local/boinc, type "make install".
If Apache is configured to run with Fast CGI, rename fcgi to cgi in the "boinc/sched" directory, replacing the existing cgi.

When installed there will be two directories created in your current directory, "boinc_cvs/" and "boinc_server/".
"boinc_cvs/" will contain all the source code in a directory called "boinc/".
"boinc_server/" will contain four directories, "upload/", "download/", "cgi/", and "keys/".
"upload/" and "cgi/"must be set as CGI in the Apache configuration file (httpd.conf) and uploads must be allowed to the "upload/" directory.
Make sure to include something like:

alias /barry/ "/disks/philmor/a/users/barry/"

or whichever directory contains "boinc_cvs/" and "boinc_server/". Edit your Apache configuration file (httpd.conf) to allow uploads to to the upload directory.

Add the following (with appropriate changes) to your .tcshrc 

setenv BOINC_DOWNLOAD_DIR   ~boinc_server/download
setenv BOINC_UPLOAD_DIR     ~boinc_server/upload
setenv BOINC_DOWNLOAD_URL   http://maggie.ssl.berkeley.edu/barry/boinc_server/download
setenv BOINC_PLATFORM       sparc-sun-solaris2.7
setenv BOINC_EMAIL          barry@ssl.berkeley.edu
setenv BOINC_DB_NAME        boinc_barry
setenv BOINC_UPLOAD_URL     http://maggie.ssl.berkeley.edu/barry/boinc_server/cgi/file_upload_handler
setenv BOINC_KEY            0xdabacafe
setenv BOINC_USER           barry
setenv BOINC_KEY_DIR        ~/boinc_server/keys
setenv BOINC_MASTER_URL     http:\\\/\\\/localhost\\\/

setenv BOINC_DOWNLOAD_DIR /usr/local/boinc/download
This directory should be set to be web accessible via Apache. If you plan on using a different directory, be sure to set the BOINC_DOWNLOAD_DIR properly so as to point to the correct directory. It is important that this directory is different from the BOINC_UPLOAD_DIR. 
BOINC_UPLOAD_DIR /usr/local/boinc/upload
This directory should be set to be web accessible via Apache. If you plan on using a different directory, be sure to set the BOINC_UPLOAD_DIR properly so as to point to the correct directory. It is important that this directory is different from the BOINC_DOWNLOAD_DIR. 
BOINC_PLATFORM_NAME
This is set when configure is run in the client directory. It is used by the client to determine the name of the BOINC client. 
BOINC_EMAIL mgary@ssl.berkeley.edu
This is currently used by one of the test scripts. It is not critical for the running of BOINC. 
BOINC_KEY_DIR /usr/local/boinc/key_dir
This should be set to a directory in which the public and private keys for BOINC are to be created. If you wish to place this in a different directory, change the variable appropriately. 
setenv BOINC_KEY 0xdadacafe
This should be set to any 32 bit hex value desired. To run multiple instances of BOINC on one machine, each instance needs to have a different BOINC_KEY compiled into it.

Go into the boinc/test directory, and type 

test_uc.php
This script runs a test case that initializes the database with a user account, application and workunits, runs the client, and checks the results.