ARC2 Starter Pack - a "seed" for SPARQL/Linked Data apps employing ARC2

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Public example at http://tuukka.sioc-project.org/arc2-starter-pack

Developed at http://github.com/tuukka/arc2-starter-pack
Home at http://linkeddata.deri.ie/services/infrastructure/software

Requirements
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1. You need to have
- a WWW server with PHP5 or PHP4.3 or higher.
- MySQL 4.0.4 or higher.

Quick installation
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1. Move this 'arc2-starter-pack' directory to a web server directory.
2. Download ARC2 (http://arc.semsol.org) and unzip it inside the
'arc2-starter-pack' directory.
- E.g. http://arc.semsol.org/download/2009/03/05/arc.zip
3. Continue with a Web browser to the 'arc2-starter-pack' directory.
a) E.g. http://localhost/arc2-starter-pack/index.php
b) *Or*, you can continue on the command line (see below).

Installation on the command line

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1. Continue from the previous steps by editing the parameters in config.php.
2. Create the database with the name you used for db_name in the config.
- Either use a graphical MySQL administration interface such as phpmyadmin,
- Or run the following command in the shell:
mysql -h localhost -u config_db_user -p -e "create database config_db_name;"
3. You can restrict access to the SPARQL server using the following methods:
a) You can set read and write API keys that clients need to match.
- Edit config.php and set endpoint_*_keys to something hard to guess.
b) Add access control rules (password, IP address) to a .htaccess file.
4. That's all! Now you can use ARC2 with SPARQL and SPARQL+:
a) Access index.php and endpoint.php with a Web browser.
b) Run cli.php on the command line:
- chmod +x cli.php
- ./cli.php "LOAD <http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/swig/2009-07-26>"
- ./cli.php "LOAD <file:///home/user/local_file.rdf>"
- ./cli.php "LOAD <file://$PWD/file_in_current_dir.ttl>"
- ./cli.php "SELECT DISTINCT ?property WHERE { ?subject ?property ?object .
}"
- ./cli.php "DELETE FROM <http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/swig/2009-07-26>"
c) Edit index.php to become your own application.

Example .htaccess file for controlling access

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To restrict who can access the SPARQL endpoint by IP address, you can put
the following lines (please adjust accordinly) into .htaccess:
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
# List IP addresses of the clients that should be allowed
Allow from 127.0.0.1 # localhost, ie. access from the same machine
Allow from 194.187.213.68 # tuukka.iki.fi