BOINC provides a script for setting up a BOINC project. This has been tested only on Linux and Solaris hosts; it may work with small modifications on Windows also.

Creating the server

First, install all components listed in the Software Prerequisites page.

Run the make_project script. For example:

    cd tools/
    ./make_project cplan

creates a project with master URL http://<hostname>/cplan/ whose directory structure is rooted at \$HOME/projects/cplan.

    cd tools/
    ./make_project --base \$HOME/boinc --url_base http://boink/ cplan 'Cunning Plan'

creates a project with master URL http://boink/cplan/ and long name Cunning Plan, rooted at \$HOME/boinc/projects/cplan.

See 'make_project --help' for more command-line options available (such as finer control of directory structure or clobbering an existing installation).

The script does the following:

Create the project directory and its subdirectories.
Create the project's encryption keys if necessary. NOTE: before making the project publicly visible, you must move the code-signing private key to a highly secure (preferably non-networked) host, and delete it from the server host.
Create and initialize the MySQL database
Copy source and executable files
Generate the project's configuration file.

The script gives further instructions, namely

It generates a template Apache config file that you can insert into /etc/apache/httpd.conf (path varies), or Include directly.
It generates a crontab line to paste.

The PHP scripts need access to the database, so the user that Apache runs under needs SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE to the database just created.

You should also make sure httpd.conf sets the default MIME type as follows:

DefaultType application/octet-stream

"; page_tail(); ?>