Re: Redhat 6.0 E-Commerce Edition

[Craig Oettle <craig_oettle@dynasty.net>]

Kyle Hayes wrote:
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from Kyle Hayes <kyle540@quicknet.net>     ******
> 
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 xjohn@adstech.com wrote:
> >
> >  Atually I did download it. And tried it out, the RPM works better than
> >  the one thatis available for download. But still, the same problem
> >  persists. I can get the server running, but I cannot connect to it from
> >  the web. I just get the "unavailable" page after about 30 seconds or
> >  so. Could you be so kind as to give me step by step instructions? I am
> >  building the sample page. So that should make it a little easier to
> >  explain I hope. Anyhow, please help me, I am a moron and need to read a
> >  FAQ befor I wipe, so you know what you are dealing with. Thanks....
> >
> >
> > John "desprate for brains, very desprate"
> 
> Sounds like the cgi-bin executable is owned by a different user than
> minivend.
> 
> go into MVHOME/etc and run
> 
> chmod +rw socket
> 
> Then try again.  If this works, it probably means that the executable for
> your catalog has incorrect permissions.  Search the web site (particularly
> the faq) on the www.minivend.com site.  There is an entry there on just
> this problem in the parts on debugging and start up.
> 
> Best,
> Kyle
> 
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I just loaded Red Hat 6.0 Ecommerce edition today and when I tried to
install the MiniVend rpm from the console I got line after line of "user
pbrown does not exist, using root instead".  It installed but would
never start etc.  Kept getting permission denied errors.  Fooled with
permissions for about an hour and each step of the way something new
would crop up as an error so I dumped it and installed the
minivend-latest.tar.gz and had it running in about ten minutes.
I started out by creating a user minivend.  Then ran ./configure and
chose /usr/local/mvend for vend root.  At the end where you create a
catalog I told it minivend would be the catalog owner and just did the
simple catalog to test with.  I did all this as root and when it started
the server it started it as the minivend user.  Is there any drawback to
installing this way?  Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Craig Oettle