Re: Problems on Setup

["Glenn A. Polsey" <gpmain@laspantry.com>]

In your item #1 answer: minivend is the whole program. Are you saying edit the minivend.cfg or the
catalog.cfg?

Item #2. It did not really answer the question, Are they (tlink and/or vlink) running as binary in the
cgi-bin or as ASCII files? Maybe I'm dense here. Also do you manually set the permissions or was
Minivend-setup suppose to have done the permissions?

Thank You,
Glenn
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Thompson-Jordan wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from "Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>     ******
>
> 1. You can ignore the warnings about 'index'. If you want to get rid of
> them, edit those lines in minivend.
>
> 2. The files vlink and tlink are compiled C programs. Make sure that the
> permissions are correct and that you have configured properly for cgiwrap.
>
> 3. You don't need access to httpd.conf and many hosting companies don't
> give access. Minivend can be set up fine without it.
>
> Christopher Thompson
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> > [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Glenn A. Polsey
> > Sent: Saturday, July 31, 1999 7:12 PM
> > To: minivend-users
> > Subject: Problems on Setup
> >
> >
> > ******    message to minivend-users from "Glenn A. Polsey"
> > <gpmain@laspantry.com>     ******
> >
> > Hi the name is Glenn.  I have got through the setup of Minivend about 5
> > times, hoping something will work.  I am installing as a virtual hosting
> > user on an Apache system with Linux. I have access through telnet (if
> > this means anything).
> >
> > Now the problems:  (This is long)
> >
> > The setup runs into problems at the end of the setup when it asks to
> > start minivend. This is what is from the log I created.
> >     Start the MiniVend server? [yes]
> > Apparently no MiniVend daemons were up -- no PID files.
> > Ambiguous use of index => resolved to "index" => at
> > /home/laspantry/mvend/lib/Vend/Parse.pm line 145.
> > Ambiguous use of index => resolved to "index" => at
> > /home/laspantry/mvend/lib/Vend/Parse.pm line 325.
> > Ambiguous use of index => resolved to "index" => at
> > /home/laspantry/mvend/lib/Vend/Parse.pm line 397.
> > CyberCash module found (CyberCash 2).
> > MiniVend V3.14
> > Configuring catalog simple...done.
> > MiniVend server started in INET and UNIX mode(s) (process id 11933)
> >
> > The front page to the simple demo comes up in a browser. From there to
> > access the noframes start of the store I get:
> >
> > Internal Server Error  (500)
> >     The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
> > unable to complete your request.
> >
> > I had run across some info from my virtual hosting about how to check a
> > cgi script. I checked the simple.cgi. It was in binary form. If I
> > understand correctly, a cgi file has to be run as ASCII.
> >
> > 1.    So why did Minivend change the vlink file (simple.cgi) to a binary
> > file or should it have?
> >
> > I copied the vlink.pl from the Mvend/src directory and copied it to the
> > cgi-bin directory and renamed it as simple.cgi. Ran the html from
> > browser and still got the same message.
> > I also ran a test from the telnet side using the args: "perl
> > simple.cgi"  I got the message: (after I'd changed files)
> >          "Too late "-T" option at simple.cgi line 1"
> > 2. What is the "-wT" for in the file? I deleted this from the simple.cgi
> > and got after the test that Minivend was very busy and try again. Any
> > thoughts here.
> >
> > 3. In a vritual hosting side, how does one set up the httpd.con?  The
> > best I could figure from someone else on this list is:
> >         for my setup----  /home/laspantry
> >
> > Any thoughts and solutions to these points?
> >
> > And lastly just a few lines snipped out of the local error file:
> >
> >         'Server.pm:3',
> > "Error reconfiguring catalog %s from running server (%s)\n%s",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:4',
> > "INET mode error port %s: %s\n\nContinuing in UNIX MODE ONLY\n",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:5',
> > "INET mode server failed to start on port %s: %s",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:6',
> > "SERVER TERMINATING",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:7',
> > "error '%s' from select.",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:8',
> > "Died in select, retrying: %s",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:9',
> > "Can't fork: %s",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:10',
> > "Runtime error: %s",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:11',
> > "Runtime error: %s",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:12',
> > "Died in server spawn: %s",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:13',
> > "Died in housekeeping, retry.",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:14',
> > "STOP server (%s) on signal TERM",
> >
> > 'Server.pm:15',
> > "START server (%s) (%s)",
> >
> > This was not all but a snippet of the problems listed.  Well any
> > thoughts on how to get past the first page?
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Glenn Polsey
> > Laspantry.com
> >
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