[ic] ready to pay for Interchange::Link help

[Mark Weaver]

Grant wrote:

> --- Mark Weaver <mark at americanmicroinc.com> wrote:
> 
>>Grant wrote:
>>
>>>--- Mark Weaver <mark at americanmicroinc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Grant wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I'm getting:
>>>>>
>>>>>We're sorry, the Interchange server is
>>>>
>>>>unavailable...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>with the IC server running.  The following says
>>>>
>>>>this
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>is most likely due to my cgi-bin:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
> http://www.icdevgroup.org/i/dev/docfly.html?mv_arg=icfaq05%2e02
> 
>>>>>Instead of troublshooting that, it makes more
>>>>
>>>>sense to
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>me to set up the new Interchange::Link (from what
>>>>
>>>>I
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>understand this eliminates the need for
>>>>
>>>>tlink/vlink)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>since that's the configuration I want to end up
>>
>>on
>>
>>>>>anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>>There doesn't seem to be any documentation on
>>>>
>>>>that,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>and I'm looking to pay someone to help me set
>>
>>that
>>
>>>>>up(preferrably via email only).  Please let me
>>>>
>>>>know if
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>you can help.
>>>>>
>>>>>- Grant
>>>>
>>>>Grant,
>>>>
>>>>What method of installation did you use to install
>>>>IC and what steps 
>>>>did you go through to set things up?
>>>>
>>>>OS?
>>>>PERL?
>>>>Database?
>>>>
>>>>-- 
>>>>Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>I used the 5.2 tarball on Gentoo Linux.  My perl
>>
>>is
>>
>>>5.8.2-r1 (threads disabled), and I plan to end up
>>
>>on
>>
>>>mySQL when I'm done but I've been specifying the
>>>default DB in makecat.
>>>
>>>I downloaded the tarball from ftp.icdevgroup.org
>>>directly to my server, untared it, ran ./configure
>>>which didn't seem to finish, installed
>>>Bundle::InterchangeKitchenSink, ran ./configure
>>
>>again
>>
>>>which didn't seem to finish again, ran makecat
>>
>>many
>>
>>>times until I got to what I think was almost the
>>
>>end,
>>
>>>moved the interchange.cfg.dist file to act as my
>>>interchange.cfg, manually compiled the tlink and
>>
>>vlink
>>
>>>files, moved my vlink file to my cgi-bin, and
>>
>>followed
>>
>>>the instructions for changing the ownerships of
>>
>>the
>>
>>>vlink file.  I might be missing something or
>>
>>stating
>>
>>>something incorrectly, but that's pretty close.  I
>>
>>can
>>
>>>now start the IC server with a PID and no errors
>>
>>in
>>
>>>the error.log, but I get the IC server unavailable
>>>message.  Thanks for reading!
>>>
>>>- Grant
>>
>>Ok...What you mean want to do is install the other
>>perl modules which I
>>believe are the kitchen sink bunch. ( you can find
>>the references is the
>>readme file that came with the tarball. ) Once those
>>are installed I
>>would recommend starting from scratch with the
>>install. What that
>>involves is removing the /usr/local/interchange
>>directory and everything
>>in it. That will effectively uninstall interchange
>>from your machine.
>>
>>Next, start the install all over again and this time
>>specify MySQL
>>during the installation if that is the db you plan
>>to use with IC. Its
>>far less trouble to do that during the install and
>>have it ready to go
>>when the IC is done installing, then to convert IC
>>to use MySQL after
>>you've got things going.
>>
>>During the install you'll be asked about your
>>webserver and IC's
>>directory where you're going to install the link for
>>the cart. The
>>easiest way to handle this is simply to place the
>>excutable in
>>/var/www/cgi-bin and have the IC's folder placed in
>>/var/www/html/your_store_name.
>>
>>Everything else is pretty much straightforward,
>>although going through
>>it the first time can be somewhat confusing if
>>you're not familiar with
>>webserver's and how they and their filesystems
>>operate.
> 
> 
> Mark - Thank you!  I deleted /usr/local/interchange,
> ran ./configure (it completed successfully this time),
> and ran ./makecat, and now I'm looking at Foundation. 
> I couldn't get mySQL to work, but that must be because
> I've only installed it and not configured it at all. 
> I'll work on that next.
> 
> Thanks for everyone's help!
> 
> - Grant

Grant,

Thats great news. Glad things are starting to work for you.

I think though there was something I forgot to mention and thats the
creation of the interchange user. and you will want to create an admin
MySQL user that has all privileges for all tables in the entire db.
Sorry about the omittion.

-- 
Mark Weaver
American Micro - Webmaster
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