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> Some basics please.
> What Linux are you using? Version?
Red Hat 6.0
> What httpd server are you using?
Apache 1.3
> Is the server remotely hosted?
Nope. It's on the box in front of me, an old Dell Pentium 166.
> What version of perl is installed?
Perl 5.005_03
> What version of Minivend are you using?
Minivend 3.12
> Did you install the MiniVend as root?
Yup.
> Did you get errors or messages when the catalog was configured?
Initially, yes, permissions errors, but I worked those out and re-installed
until I was able to go through an entire simple catalog install with no
errors.
> Did you configure the catalog using makecat or the GUI configurator.
makecat
> Did you try restarting the MV server manually after configuring the
> catalog?
Yes, I have several times, as root but using the su -c command to initial a
single command as the Minivend user.
>
> Believe me this info will help a lot.
> --
> John Foster
> AdVance-Computing Systems
> > Newbie problems. If anyone can give me a hand I would appreciate it
> > immensely. I chose this solution over having my client spend $15,000 on
a
> > Microsoft alternative (which they were willing to do), mostly because I
like
> > the open source philosophy, but I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure
> > what I've done wrong.
> >
> > Basically, I'm getting the "Minivend server unavailable" error, which
the
> > Minivend FAQ explains is pretty much the most common error and is almost
> > always a permissions problem. I'm fairly new to administrating Linux, so
I'm
> > not completely positive if my permissions setup is bulletproof, but I
> > *think* I've got everything right.
> >
> > The Minivend server is running as a non-superuser user, and the "simple"
cgi
> > is set up as a setuid. All of the Minivend files and directories
themselves
> > are owned by the same non-su user that controls the Minivend daemon. I
> > thought that the ScriptAlias directory might be suspect, but I've tested
it
> > with a trivial CGI script and that works.
> >
> > I'm running under the UNIX protocol. I've tried copying tlink to
> > /usr/httpd/cgi-bin/simple, but that ain't workin' either.
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