[ic] Setting up catalogs on multiple domains

Joshua Lavin joshua at kingdomdesign.com
Mon Dec 8 07:47:19 EST 2003


On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 05:51  PM, Rick O'Neil wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> For several months now I've been running (quite successfully) an IC 
> 4.9.8
> catalog on a dedicated server (with virtual hosting of several other
> domains as well). Now I want to set up a catalog for one of the other
> domains but no matter how I configure things I can't get the second 
> catalog
> to run on the second domain - whenever I go to the customer entrance I 
> get
> an internal server error. Additionally, IC is running as the user
> [firstuser] which is the user that is associated with 
> [firstdomain.com].
> The user [firstuser] and [seconduser] are both in the same group and 
> I've
> tried running makecat as both users with the same results. In other 
> words:
>
> http://www.[firstdomain.com]/cgi-bin/[firstcatalog]/index.html
> The above works fine and has been working fine ever since the initial
> catalog creation
>
> http://www.[seconddomain.com]/cgi-bin/[secondcatalog]/index.html
> This results in an internal server error with no errors in either the
> interchange or catalog error logs.
>
> However, if I instead run makecat and set the cgi directory to that of
> [firstuser] it works fine.
> Example: 
> http://www.[firstdomain.com]/cgi-bin/[secondcatalog]/index.html
>
> At first I assumed that this was a permissions issue and thus I used 
> in the
> [seconddomain] home directory:
> chown -R [firstuser] catalogs/[secondcatalog]
> chown -R [firstuser] cgi-bin
>
> At his point I'm stumped since all of the catalog files are owned by 
> the
> user [firstuser] as is the cgi script. Running both catalogs from
> [firstdomain.com] is not an option and I know other people have gotten 
> this
> working. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find anything in the
> archives that has worked.
>
> I would certainly appreciate any help anybody could provide. Let me 
> know if
> I need to provide any more information (like a log of my answers to 
> makecat).
>
> -Rick

You didn't mention what your error logs say.

I'm running multiple catalogs on one IC, but all under one user. You 
could install 4.9.9 to run as one user, and use the test variable as 
mentioned in the UPGRADE file to test your catalogs. Maybe that would 
work.

Josh



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