[ic] undefined carts on upgrade

[Josh Lavin]

Quoting David Etheredge (David_e at charter.net):
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Etheredge"
> <David_e at charter.net>
> To: <interchange-users at icdevgroup.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 12:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [ic] undefined carts on upgrade
> 
> 
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Lavin"
> ><josh at perusion.com>
> >To: <interchange-users at icdevgroup.org>
> >Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 12:52 PM
> >Subject: Re: [ic] undefined carts on upgrade
> >
> >
> >>Quoting Gert van der Spoel (gert at 3edge.com):
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When putting back the old files, did you also replace cart.cgi with
> >>>>> the old version? Or are you using the latest compiled version that
> >>>>> came with your new install?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is this a staging/testing environment? If so it might help to comment
> >>>>> out all but 1 catalog and see to get one of them working. There have
> >>>>> been situations where issues sometimes happen in 1 catalog
> >>>and >> cascade
> >>>>> to the next, making it harder to debug.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> CU,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Gert
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> You may have hit the nail on the head. It does appear that
> >>>the > technician
> >>>did copy the old cart.cgi as the files carry a 2007 date.
> >>>>
> >>>> I will have to see if I can fine the right version and correct this.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any suggestions as to the best way to replace the old files
> >>>without > doing
> >>>a complete re-install?
> >>>
> >>>Have a look in your interchange install dir, there should be a
> >>>src directory
> >>>and likely a vlink.something file (I assume you need vlink and
> >>>not tlink,
> >>>but my knowledge in this area is very rusty).
> >>>With a bit of luck you can copy that one in place of your
> >>>cart.cgi (make a
> >>>backup ;)).
> >>>Keep in mind to do the chmod +s on the cart.cgi if I remember correctly.
> >>>
> >>>Else I think running ./configure in that src directory will
> >>>create you a new
> >>>vlink/tlink file.
> >>
> >>You don't need to switch to the src directory; just cd to
> >>/usr/local/interchange or wherever your IC install is located, then do
> >>`bin/compile_link`.
> >>
> >>That will compile the 'tlink' and 'vlink' programs in the src directory;
> >>you can then copy the appropriate one (typically vlink) to your cgi-bin
> >>as Gert described above, rename to your cgi script name (cart.cgi), and
> >>then `chmod +s cart.cgi`.
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>Josh Lavin
> >>Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
> >>... ask me about job opportunities ...
> >>
> >
> >
> >After a long struggle with the db files and a few other glitches,
> >interchange is finally coming up but when I call the cart.cgi, I
> >get a 500 error
> >
> >500 Internal Server Error
> >The request was not completed. The server met an unexpected condition.
> >
> > 78.52.51.205/~ezclang/cgi-bin/cart.cgi (port 80)
> >Please forward this error screen to 72.52.151.215's WebMaster.
> >
> >
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >Apache/2.2.26 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.26 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips
> >mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
> >Server at 78.52.51.205 Port 80
> >
> >>From the apache error.log I get
> >[Mon Dec 30 00:52:17 2013] [error] [client 97.81.233.34] Premature
> >end of script headers: cart.cgi
> >
> >[Mon Dec 30 00:52:17 2013] [error] [client 97.81.233.34] File does
> >not exist: /home/ezclang/public_html/cgi-bin/sys_cpanel, referer:
> >http://78.52.51.205/~ezclang/cgi-bin/cart.cgi
> >
> >
> >
> >I do not understand where the sys_cpanel comes from?
> >.............................
> >Did you recompile the vlink program as I described previously?
> >How did you install Interchange?
> >
> >Are you running on a host with the cPanel control panel?
> Yes, I actually did that twice.Interchange was installed manually
> from the package as a shell operation.Cpanel is present but does not
> support or include interchange. It was not used for any of the
> installation.

Good. It sounds to me like you didn't copy the compiled 'vlink' script
to your CGI bin. It sounds like you may have used a cPanel-version of
Interchange previously, and its cgi script is still trying to find some
file.

cPanel is also known as cPAINel... 

-- 
Josh Lavin
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
... ask me about job opportunities ...