[ic] Install problems

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Peter Risdon)]

I have tried installing Interchange 4.8.3 on RedHat 7.2 in a variety of 
ways, including the tarball, but I understand the RPM is better. I have 
tried on a vanilla install on a laptop, on a bells-and-whistles 
workstation and on a very non-standard production server where I am 
trying to migrate several sites from another running older versions of 
Interchange and Minivend. No machines have less than 190MB of RAM, and 
most have 500M plus. Processors range from 500MHz to 900MHz, so 
resources should be OK.

I have been using this software since the Minivend days, but once it has 
been set up I have tended to leave it. So I'm rusty. But not one recent 
install has resulted in a running website, although interchange itself 
runs without a problem.

Issues are generally the 500 error, with a premature end of script 
headers in the logs. Sometimes, after fiddling about, I have got the 
server unavailable/high demand problem.

I have trawled through the mailing list archive and the answers to these 
frequently recurring problems seem to boild down to permissions, giving 
makecat sensible answers, and machine resources. I feel I am OK on all 
these things, though obviously there is a prob somewhere (and I suspect 
my makecat answers as the only common denominator, although I have tried 
taking all the defaults). I have installed Bundle::Interchange.  I find 
the currect RedHat documentation on their website unsatisfactory. Can 
anyone point me to a better install guide or a checklist for an 
installed system?

Thanks in advance,

Peter Risdon.