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Re: Setting up Minivend on RHL 5.2 w/ Perl 5.005_02--HELP!!!!!!
****** message to minivend-users from "Rob Zimmerman" <rob@readysite.net> ******
Wow...where to start... :-)
1st. the user "minivend" has to exist on your server, does it? If you are going to run minivend
under that ownership it has to exists. for me it was <useradd mvend> which also belongs to the
<group other>.
2. you have both cgis and cgi-store listed as your cgi dir, which is it?
3. Most install at at something like /usr/local/minivend for the minivend server
and then install the catalogs at your domain location.
4. Forget the mv_admin for now, get it all down from the command line first.
5. before you start the server su to the user minivend or mvend then start the server. Minivend
doesnt like to run as root.
6. DocumentRoot? [/www/docs/store.domain.com] <-----By chance, should this
be /www/docs/store.domain.com/htdocs or similar? If your running virtual domains you
probably have several domains at /www/docs/
Anyway, a place to start looking maybe....good luck....and remember, RDWHAHB
[Relax, Dont Worry, Have A HomeBrew] !
Rob
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> ****** message to minivend-users from raisplin <raisplin@rcn.com> ******
>
> Hello,
>
> I am new to minivend and to the list. I am having problems with
> installing Minivend on my Redhat 5.2 system.
>
> Here is the basic jist of what I have done and what happens.
>
> 1. Made a new virtualhost in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
> document root for this host is /www/docs/store.domain.com
> CGI Directory (via ScriptAlias) is /www/cgis/store.domain.com
>
> 2. ran the configure script from the Minivend-3.11 directory in /usr/src
> (where I untarred it
> to)
>
> 3. answers to questions in ./configure are as follows with any errors
> that appeared:
> I am substituting 'domain' for my actual domain. Note: if values
> were already in
> brackets were correct, I only pressed 'enter' and did not actually
> type them in. they
> are included here for the purpose of being thorough.
>
> Where is your MiniVend to be installed? [/root/mvend]
> /www/docs/store.domain.com
>
> Get Term::ReadKey module? [yes] yes
> Get Term::ReadLine::Perl module? [yes] yes
> Get MD5 module? [yes] yes
> Get SQL::Statement module? [yes] yes
> Get MIME::Base64 module? [yes] yes
> Get URI::URL module? [yes] yes
>
> User who will run MiniVend? minivend
> Group to own MiniVend? [minivend] minivend
>
> Make the simple demo now? [yes] yes
>
> Catalog name? simple
>
> Enter path to httpd.conf file: [/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf]
> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>
> Permission Mode? [M] M
> Default server? [store.domain.com] store.domain.com
> Do you have a CGI directory? [y] y
>
> CgiDir? [/www/cgis/store.hcvn.com]
> /www/cgis/store.domain.com
> CgiBase? [/cgi-store] /cgi-store
> DocumentRoot? [/www/docs/store.domain.com]
> /www/docs/store.domain.com
> VendRoot? [/www/docs/store.domain.com]
> /www/docs/store.domain.com
>
> BaseDir? [~/catalogs] ~/catalogs
>
> MiniVendUser? [minivend] minivend
>
> Press ENTER to edit...
> [esc] :wq <-----NO EDITS MADE TO THIS FILE
>
> Continue and make the catalog? [y] y
>
> Server name? [store.domain.com] store.domain.com
> DemoType? [simple] simple
> permtype? [M] M
>
> MiniVendUser? [minivend] minivend
> CatUser? minivend
> MiniVendGroup? <----LEFT THIS BLANK AS SUGGESTED
>
> MailOrderTo? [minivend] minivend
>
> CatRoot? [/catalogs/simple] /catalogs/simple
> CgiDir? [/www/cgis/store.domain.com]
> /www/cgis/store.domain.com
>
> CgiUrl? [/cgi-store/simple] /cgi-store/simple
> Aliases? [/simple] /simple
>
> DocumentRoot? [/www/docs/store.domain.com]
> /www/docs/store.domain.com
>
> SampleHtml? [/www/docs/store.domain.com/simple]
> /www/docs/store.domain.com/simple
> ImageDir? [/www/docs/store.hcvn.com/simple/images]
> /www/docs/store.domain.com/simple/images
> ImageUrl? [/simple/images] /simple/images
>
> ##ERROR HAPPENS HERE##
> Couldn't set ownership of : No such file or directory
> ##END ERROR##
>
> MiniVend can use either UNIX- or internet-domain sockets.
> Most ISPs would prefer UNIX mode, and it is more secure.
>
> If you already have a program there, or use a common program
> and the FullURL directive, select NONE. You will then need
> to copy the program by hand or otherwise ensure its presence.
>
> INET or UNIX mode? [UNIX] UNIX
>
> Checking directories........................................
> /catalogs/simple: directory exists!
>
> /www/docs/store.hcvn.com/simple: directory exists!
> The above directories already exist. Overwrite files? [n] y
>
> Add catalog to minivend.cfg? [y] y
>
> Start the MiniVend server? [yes] yes
> Do you want me to start it as 'minivend' now? [y] y
>
> ## ERROR HAPPENS HERE ##
> MiniVend V3.11
> _mv_admin config error: Couldn't open
> '/www/docs/store.hcvn.com/admin/products/d
> atabase.asc' read/write: Permission denied
>
>
> _mv_admin: error in configuration. Skipping.
> _mv_admin: config error. Skipping.
> Configuring catalog simple...done.
> MiniVend server started in INET and UNIX mode(s) (process id 24167)
>
> Start Netscape with http://ns1:7786/mv_admin? [yes] no <--note NOT using
> Netscape because am telnetted to the server from home.
>
> ok, so that's my config. before I did that config, I had previously
> cd'ed to /www/docs/store.domain.com and did a rm -Rf * to remove anythign
> in the directory and leave me with a nice clean directory. I had also
> done this for /www/cgis/store.domain.com.
>
> It appears that the permissions are a problem on the mv_admin. Here are
> the permissions for all the files in the direcotry with database.asc:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 161 Feb 20 18:09 database.asc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107 Feb 20 18:09 directive.asc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 Feb 20 18:09 locale.asc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 534 Feb 20 18:09 products.asc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3433 Feb 20 18:09 wizard.asc
>
> and when I go to my newly configured http://store.domain.com/simple or
> http://store.domain.com/cgi-store/simple
>
> http://store.domain.com/cgi-store/simple returns with a 404 error and
>
> http://store.domain.com/simple returns with "The Art Store", so obviously
> something worked right, however....ANY link that I click on that page
> returns a 404 error, so I am thinking that something is not right as if
> it is a demo, the fetures should at least work more than "hey look, here
> is the first page...ha ha ha, too bad you can't do anything else.."
>
> so, now for the brief version...what am I doing WRONG here? I have
> gotten the exact same results even on a earlier version of PERL and I am
> stumped and very frustrated....this is 5 days into trying to install
> it....
>
> Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided,
>
> Greg Evans
>
>
>
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