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Installing TWIG for BSD/OS

To install TWIG for BSD/OS, connect to your Virtual Server via Telnet or SSH and do the following.

NOTE: If you have one of our new Virtual Servers running the FreeBSD O/S, you should instead Install TWIG for FreeBSD. If your Virtual Server was ordered after Nov 22, 1999, you are likely running FreeBSD. To find out which O/S your Virtual Server is running, use the uname command: 

% uname

If your Virtual Server is not already running FreeBSD, Upgrade to a New FreeBSD Virtual Server today!

  1. Install the TWIG software by issuing the following commands. 

    % cd 
% tar -xvf /usr/local/contrib/twig-addr_book.tar

  2. Install MySQL on your Virtual Server.

    Once you have MySQL running on your Virtual Server, you need to create a TWIG user with appropriate privileges and some TWIG tables in the MySQL database. This is easily done using two MySQL command files we have created for you and included in the TWIG installation archive you have already installed. If this is the first time you have installed MySQL on your Virtual Server, use these commands: 

    % mysql -u root < ~/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/twig/twig.table.mysql
% mysqladmin -u root reload

    If you have previously installed MySQL on your Virtual Server and have already set a root password for MySQL, use the following commands instead of those above, substituting the password you have set for PASSWD: 

    % mysql -u root -pPASSWD < ~/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/twig/twig.table.mysql
% mysqladmin -u root -pPASSWD reload

  3. Install PHP on your Virtual Server. TWIG requires this version of the PHP dynamic module: 

    mod_php3-3.0.12-module-mysql-imap.so

  4. Update the DB versions of your Virtual Server ~/etc/passwd file: 

    % vpwd_mkdb ~/etc/passwd

  5. Edit the TWIG config.inc file found in the ~/www/htdocs/twig/config directory. You can use the pico command to edit the file while connected to your Virtual Server, like this: 

    % pico -w ~/www/htdocs/twig/config/config.inc

    Or you can Download the File to your own PC, edit the file, and then upload it back to your Virtual Server. Be sure to download and upload the file in ASCII mode.

    Your goal is to find the occurrence of YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME in the config.inc file and change it to the domain name of your Virtual Server. The occurrence of YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME is very near the top of the file and should be easy to locate.


Reading E-Mail with TWIG

After TWIG is properly installed and configured, you will be able to Read E-Mail with TWIG.

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PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS OLD ARCHIVE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT FUNCTION ON NEW SERVERS