[ic] copying catalog and setup - simple question

[linuxdev@musicalheritage]

Hello.  I am new to interchange, so I apologize upfront for the
simplicity of my questions.

I installed the demo store from the makecat script and had that running.
I next wanted to take existing catalogs that I have access to and run
them on a different machine.  What is the best way to take these
catalogs from the server they are currently being hosted on and run on
and move them?  The whole interchange platform and the specific catalogs
in this case were installed under user xyz.  I thought I could just
archive from '/home/xyz' down the hierarchy.  Next add the user xyz on
my other machine and finally extract the archive, so everything is in
the exact same location as it was on the original server.  I restored
the databases on this new machine, extracted the archive, only thing I
changed the references to perl in the startup files
(/home/xyz/interchange/bin/interchange and restart) because it is in a
different directory on this new system.  After starting interchange and
accessing the proper file in the cgi-bin directory I get the typical "
We're sorry, the Interchange server is unavailable..." outputted page.

What is the typical way(s) to copy catalogs when moving them?  What
about setting the interchange configuration options like the location of
the perl interpreter that may be different?

If the scenario I presented above should have worked there just may some
settings I am not changing.  Any advice on where to look?

Red Hat 7.2
Kernel 2.4.7-10

Thank you for the help.

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Larry