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Systems - CATS
Overview
CATS runs the CAcert Training System, which is currently used to do the Assurer Challenge.
SSL-Certificate: see SystemAdministration/CertificateList
Software
The CATS software can be found on SVN at https://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/Education/CATS/. The files index.php.template and includes/db_connect.inc.template have to be copied and edited according to the installation environment (pathes, passwords etc.)
A test/demo/initial database creation script is at https://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/Education/CATS-DB/
Prerequesites: Apache, PHP, MySQL, OpenSSL
Apache has to be configured that a client certificate is requested when accessing the CATS directory.
Data upload to main database
The script functions/UploadResults.pl has to be started regularily (typ.: cronjob every 5 minutes) to upload the passed tests.
Parameters have to be used to specify client certificate, client key (matching the certificate) and CAcert root keys. Sample commandline:
perl /home/cats/public_html/functions/UploadResults.pl --CertFile /home/cats/private/cert_201006.pem --KeyFile /home/cats/private/key_201006.pem --CAFile /home/cats/private/CAcert_roots.pem
The client certificate has to be issued for email address cats@cacert.org
Database content
The "primary" store for questions and answers (including translations in progress) is the MySQL DB on the development system test1.cacert.at.
To save us the hassle of typing in the questions again if the database should crash it is backed up daily to the production system cats.cacert.org, in addition to daily backups on test1.cacert.at.
Instructions for Translations
read CATS Translation