1. “Adoption, Care and feeding of a REDCap Server”
Paul Litwin – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Anthony Colles – University of East Anglia Naveen Karduri - BC Children's Hospital Research Institute Brian Main – Eastern Virginia Medical School

2. Implementation Physical Location Hardware Considerations
If institutional resource, Secure Server Farm is preferred.
If Departmental, Where can the server live that is safe and secure?
Hardware Considerations
How many users, projects and subjects are anticipated?
What is the total budget to get things started?
Operating System
Windows Server or Linux
If Linux, Which Distro?
Database
MySQL (Community or Enterprise)
MariaDB

3. Prerequisites Make Sure computer is fully up to date
Install Visual C redistributables (Some MySql processes require them)
Install bzip and add it to the path environment variable
Install an appropriate WAMP or LAMP stack

4. Installation
Create the root REDCap directory in the Web Server directory (Apache – “htdocs” IIS – “wwwroot”
Download and extract the REDCap New Install archive
Move files into the REDCap web directory
Open the install.php file in a browser
Follow the on Screen Instructions

5. Security Physical Security Data Security Remote Access IP Restrictions
Is the server safe
In a locked space with climate control and reliable power?
Data Security
Encrypted at rest? Encrypted in Transit? Absolutely! (SSL/https)
Remote Access
Who should have it? Who actually does?
IP Restrictions
Is the system accessible from off site? Should it be?
Backups
Local HDD, Remote Tape, T2D or D2T, Cloud, Archival

6. Upgrades How? Development Platform Upgrade Testing
Download the archive file, extract, copy to server, Open Control-Center
Development Platform
Upgrades should be applied to a development/test environment first!
Upgrade Testing
Upgrades should be tested using copies of existing projects as well as creating and modifying new projects. Try to break it!
Applying Upgrades to Production
Schedule the Upgrade after normal business hours and Notify Users.
Take the system offline in Control-Center
Make a Full Backup of the Data in MyPHPAdmin
Make sure the last Tape or other backup completed with no errors
Download, extract, then move the new version files into the Web Directory
Open Control-Center
Follow the Directions
Execute the Upgrade SQL Script in MyPHPAdmin
Verify settings in Configuration Check
Once Satisfied, Bring the System back online.