2nd catalog configuration, won't start...

[The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>]

BTW...before you read this, if there is a document that I've missed
somewhere that answers these questions, please feel free to tell me where
it is.  I printed off the minivend.pod file so that I can easily go
through it, and it tells alot about after you have it running, but I can't
even seem to get it to that step :(

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I just tried to do a 'makecat' on a second server, and think I'm seriously
missing something in the docs.

So far, my experience is that you have to run 'makecat' as root, since it
needs to write to directories in 'DocumentRoot' directories...no probs,
that is what I'm doing.

Went through the whole thing and create a second catalog, no probs there
either.

Restart minivend:

%~/mvend/bin/restart
Sent TERM to server on PID 64799.
MiniVend server stopped.
MiniVend V3.14
Configuring catalog hub_prod...Variable: read from non-existent file, skipping.
In line 43 of the configuration file 'catalog.cfg':
Variable      LEFTSIDE   <leftside

Variable: read from non-existent file, skipping.
In line 44 of the configuration file 'catalog.cfg':
Variable      RIGHTSIDE  <rightside

Variable: read from non-existent file, skipping.
In line 45 of the configuration file 'catalog.cfg':
Variable      NO_RIGHT   <no_right

Variable: read from non-existent file, skipping.
In line 46 of the configuration file 'catalog.cfg':
Variable      MENUBAR    <menubar

Variable: read from non-existent file, skipping.
In line 47 of the configuration file 'catalog.cfg':
Variable      MENUBOTTOM <menubottom

Variable: read from non-existent file, skipping.
In line 48 of the configuration file 'catalog.cfg':
Variable      LOGOBAR    <logobar

Variable: read from non-existent file, skipping.
In line 49 of the configuration file 'catalog.cfg':
Variable      COPYRIGHT  <copyright

Could not open salestax file /home/projects/minivend/catalogs/hub_prod/products/salestax.asc: Permission denied
Could not open error file error.log: Permission denied

to report this error:
- - - [21/July/1999:14:53:21 -0400] hub_prod - Could not open salestax file /home/projects/minivend/catalogs/hub_prod/products/salestax.asc: Permission denied

Could not open shipping file /home/projects/minivend/catalogs/hub_prod/products/shipping.asc: Permission denied
Could not open error file error.log: Permission denied

to report this error:
- - - [21/July/1999:14:53:21 -0400] hub_prod - Could not open shipping file /home/projects/minivend/catalogs/hub_prod/products/shipping.asc: Permission denied

hub_prod config error: Couldn't open '/home/projects/minivend/catalogs/hub_prod/products/locale.asc' read/write: Permission denied


hub_prod: error in configuration. Skipping.
hub_prod: config error. Skipping.
Configuring catalog pgsql_prod...done.
MiniVend server started in INET and UNIX mode(s) (process id 66213)

Great, the first one I create still "configures", but the second one, not
a hope.

Checking out the differences between my config files shows what I *think*
I should be expecting:

%diff hub_prod/catalog.cfg pgsql_prod/catalog.cfg 
3,14c3,14
< Variable    SERVER_NAME     www.hub.org
< Variable    CGI_URL         /hub_prod.cgi
< Variable    SECURE_SERVER   http://www.hub.org
< Variable    ORDERS_TO       sales@hub.org
< Variable    IMAGE_DIR       /hub_prod/images
< Variable    DOCROOT         /usr/local/httpd/share/apache/htdocs
< Variable    SAMPLEHTML      /usr/local/httpd/share/apache/htdocs/hub_prod
< Variable    SAMPLEURL       http://www.hub.org/hub_prod
< 
< Variable    COMPANY         The Art Store
< Variable    ADDRESS         123 Any St.
< Variable    CITY            Anytown, USA 00000
---
> Variable    SERVER_NAME     www.pgsql.com
> Variable    CGI_URL         /pgsql_prod.cgi
> Variable    SECURE_SERVER   http://www.pgsql.com
> Variable    ORDERS_TO       sales@pgsql.com
> Variable    IMAGE_DIR       /pgsql_prod/images
> Variable    DOCROOT         /home/projects/pgsql.com
> Variable    SAMPLEHTML      /home/projects/pgsql.com/pgsql_prod
> Variable    SAMPLEURL       http://www.pgsql.com/pgsql_prod
> 
> Variable    COMPANY         PostgreSQL, Inc
> Variable    ADDRESS         Suite 2, 251 Main Street
> Variable    CITY            Wolfville, Nova Scotia, B0P 1X0
100c100
< VendURL                 http://__SERVER_NAME____CGI_URL__
---
> VendURL               http://__SERVER_NAME____CGI_URL__
1113c1113
< RemoteUser   sales
---
> RemoteUser   jeff

	Do the 'RemoteUsers' have to be the same or something? :(

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org