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.

Install all components listed in the Software Prerequisites page. Your operating system must have shared memory enabled, with a max shared segment size of at least 32 MB.

Creating the server

Run the make_project script; example command lines:

    cd tools/
    ./make_project yah

will create $HOME/projects/yah with html_user_url set to http:///yah/ and long project name 'Yah'.

    cd tools/
    ./make_project --base $HOME/boinc --url_base http://boink/ yah 'YETI @ Home'

will create $HOME/boinc/projects/yah with the html_user_url set to http://boink/yah/.

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 MySQL database
Copy source and built files
Generate the configuration file (config.xml) used by the server programs.

The script gives further instructions, namely

It generates a template Apache config file which you can edit and paste into /etc/apache/httpd.conf (path varies), or Include directly if it is already perfect.
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.

When you run the make_project script it will give you lines to append to your Apache httpd.conf. (Basically you need to alias html_user, alias html_ops, and script-alias cgi-bin, all with appropriate directory permissions.) It will also give you a crontab line to install.

You should also set the default MIME type as follows:

DefaultType application/octet-stream

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