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@@ -59,3 +59,65 @@ src/mint-tools/ src/mint-lib/ -- libtalermint: C API to issue HTTP requests to mint + + +Getting Started +============== + +The following steps illustrate how to set up a mint HTTP server. +They take as a stub for configuring the mint the content of 'contrib/mint-template/config/'. + +1) Create a 'test/' directory and copy the stubs in it: + +mkdir -p test/config/ +cp mint/contrib/mint-template/config/* test/config/ +cd test/ + +2) Create the mint's master with the tool 'gnunet-ecc': + +gnunet-ecc -g1 master.priv + +3) Edit config/mint-common.conf by replacing the right value on the line with the +MASTER_PUBLIC_KEY entry with the fresh generated (ASCII version of) master.priv. +This ASCII version is obtained by issuing: + +gnunet-ecc -p master.priv + +4) Generate other mint related keys ('denomination' and 'signing' keys), by issuing: + +taler-mint-keyup -d `pwd` + +5) Check with: + +taler-mint-keycheck -d `pwd` + +6) A mint needs a database to operate, so the following instructions relate to +how to set up PostgreSQL. On debian, the two packages needed are: + +* postgresql +* postgresql-client + +For other operating systems, please refer to the relevant documentation. + +In this settlement, the mint wll use a database called 'talercheck' and will +run under the username through which 'taler-mint-httpd' is launched. Thus assuming +that this user is 'demo', we need to create a 'demo' role for postgresql and make +him the owner of 'talercheck' database. + +To perform these administrative tasks we have to impersonate the 'postgres' (by default, +postgres installation assigns privileges to such a user) user, then connect to the running DBMS. +Issue the following: + +su # give your root password +su - postgres +psql # this is the command-line client to the DMBS +# the following lines are SQL +CREATE USER demo; +CREATE DATABASE talercheck OWNER demo; +# quit with CTRL-C + +7) If any previous step has been successful, it is now possbile to start up the +mint web server (by default it will listen on port 4241); issue: + + +taler-mint-httpd -d `pwd` # assuming we did not move outside of the 'test' directory |