Forum OpenACS Q&A: installation woes

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1: installation woes
Posted by brad babai on 08/05/04 08:37 AM
2 questions

I am installing dotlrn onto my laptop, now i have PostgreSQL and AOLserver running, but when i am following the installation guide given (the OpenACS 5.0.4 install guide) as i'm using a laptop which will get a new IP address every time, does this mean i have to install manually?

Also when i try to install manually, i get an error after logging in as "service0" when i try to go to /var/lib/aolserver i get permission denied even though i have don chmod 770 to the directory, by changing the chmod to 775 i then tried to untar dotlrn from /tmp but it also said i couldn't.

what am i doing wrong?????

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2: Re: installation woes (response to 1)
Posted by Torben Brosten on 08/05/04 10:47 AM
Brad,

When a server is run from a laptop/desktop with a dynamic ip, I believe you can still use "localhost:port" to access the server from your laptop.  When you know the dynamic IP address, then you can temporarily access the server from other computers --but it is generally awkward to access a server with a dynamic ip.

regarding permission denied, try this:

login as root
root# cd /var/lib
root# chmod -R 770 aolserver
root# cd /var/lib/aolserver
root# chown -R service0:web service0

This page may have more useful info: https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-5-1/openacs.html

also you might have to be logged in as root to access /tmp and untar files

hope this helps,

Torben

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3: Re: installation woes (response to 2)
Posted by brad babai on 08/05/04 02:26 PM
thanks for the help, i am almost done now, but i've hit this other snag which is a bit baffling to me

in step 5 of the OpenACS install guide i run the program using 

/usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd-postgres -t /var/lib/aolserver/weg/etc/config.tcl   (ive changed service0 to weg)
i get the right output on my xterm console but when i type into the browser http://weg.test:8000 i get a cannot connect error

my error log seems fine except for to error readings which are 

[05/Aug/2004:17:44:59][3344.1075081856][-main-] Error: pidfile: failed to open pid file '/usr/local/aolserver/log/nspid.weg': 'Permission denied'
(twice) and 
[05/Aug/2004:17:44:59][3344.1075081856][-main-] Fatal: modload: failed to load module '/usr/local/aolserver/bin/nssha1.so'
Fatal: modload: failed to load module '/usr/local/aolserver/bin/nssha1.so'

Is there any explanation for this? the first error is weird because when i go to that directory path, the nspid.weg does not exist....

neither does the nssha1.so file,

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4: Re: installation woes (response to 1)
Posted by Torben Brosten on 08/05/04 09:56 PM
Hi Brad,

since nssha1.so is not there, you need to install it. nssha1 is an aolserver module. install directions are here:

https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-5-1/aolserver4.html

"when i go to (/usr/local/aolserver40r5/log), the nspid.weg doesnt exist...."

aolserver is trying to write a file there. That makes this a permissions issue.

The top of the install openacs5.1 page[1] shows how to set it. I recall having difficulty myself with getting chgrp "stick" at times. You need to give permission to the web group to access this area.

try this, as user root:

cd /usr/local/aolserver40r5
chmod -R root:web log
chmod -R root:web servers

you might need to give the "web" group permission to the entire dir:

chmod -R root:web /usr/local/aolserver40r5

1. https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-5-1/openacs.html

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5: Re: installation woes (response to 1)
Posted by brad babai on 08/06/04 03:29 AM
i did as you said and changed the permissions and now im getting an error message saying
  Ns_Tls: invalid key: 0: should be between 1 and 100
  Aborted

as output on my console whenever i try to sartup the server with
/usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd-postgres -t /var/lib/......

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6: Re: installation woes (response to 1)
Posted by Torben Brosten on 08/06/04 06:51 AM
That's a new one for me, Brad. Sorry I can't help.

You'll find that knowledgeable forum subscribers will help when the problem is stated with as much detail as might be needed to solve it; and especially when a problem statement includes credible evidence that attempts have been made to solve the problem independently. For example, describing attempted fixes.

You might try what I and others do in this situation: google for whatever error statement you get. Google's advanced search feature helps to narrow a search to web content related to others who have had similar problems and how it is solved.

good luck!

Torben

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7: Re: installation woes (response to 1)
Posted by xx xx on 08/06/04 07:35 AM
Probably, the hostname cannot be resolved to any proper IP address. Fix your config.tcl or try the fix in Aolserver 4.07. I've seen it happen on my notebook.

https://sourceforge.net/p/aolserver/bugs/178/

http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/files/aixfiles/hosts.htm