[ic] performed perfect tarball install, and still have same problems

Philip S. Hempel interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sun Dec 22 14:29:00 2002


Jonathan Clark wrote:
>>Yesterday, I reinstalled the SME Server, which reformatted my linux
>>machine. I read on the SME e-smith.org website in the FAQ section, that
>>in order to be able to make and compile programs, I needed 8 files,
>>which they listed for me.
>>I grabbed my redhat discs, and copied those files on to my machine. I
>>ran the rpm -Uvh make-* gcc-*, etc command with all the files included.
>>It installed all those files perfectly without any dependencies, or
>>conflicts.
>>
>>Then I downloaded the interchange 4.9.5 tarball
>>After extracting it, yesterday, I ran ./configure and for about 10
>>minutes it did all sorts of stuff. Every so often I had to press enter
>>when it asked me a question. Then it said it installed just fine, and
>>for me to run makecat
>>So I performed ./bin/makecat It took a couple of times to get all my
>>directories in the catalog just right, but I managed to get makecat to
>>end successfully.
>>After doing the chown on the proper files that I did on my other
>>machine, which works great, I decided to load it up in my browser to see
>>what I have.
>>
>>I brought up the customer and admin entrance screen. I clicked on the
>>customer entrance, and it brought up the front page with all the tools.
>>I clicked on everything on the page, and I get a page not found.
>>Probably a 404 error.
>>
>>So I went back to the cust admin entrance, and clicked on admin, I get
>>the same problem, it wouldn't load up the administration back end.
>>
>>This is the same problem I had when I did the rpm install
>>
>>I must not have a file in the right place or something...
>>
>>Thanks for being very helpful
> 
> 
> Sounds like you are nearly there...
> 
> makecat does not set up apache for you. You need to have this properly
> configured, with cgi-bin for your interchange link program.
> 
> As you are getting a not found error trying to view /cgi-bin/foundation (or
> whatever you named it) you either told makecat the wrong place to put the
> link program, or have your virtual server set slightly wrong.
> 
> Check your apache.conf for the ScriptAlias location for your virtual server,
> and make sure that's where makecat put the link program.
> 
> good luck!
> 
> Jonathan
> Webmaint.
> 

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enable on your web server?


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Philip S. Hempel