Hello, I am new to this list, new to openacs, but I am quite
familiar with linux, apache and postgres (as a user not a developer).
I want to share my experience installing openacs in redhat7.2,
and talk about a few issues.
I use redhat7.2, with my very customised version of apache, and
I use postgres with some databases, all of them small.
AOLServer:
I have installed openacs with no problem... well...first I tried
to install it with apache: no luck. I could not get the last
mod_aolserver from acs, aparently they no longer have it on their
website. And after reading quite a bit on this list I decided to
try AOLserver, I had no problem installing and getting it running.
OpenACS: I extracted the files from the tarball, used the .tcl
config file and modified it according to my needs. I create a
postgres user (with all the permissione needed) and loaded the data
files into postgres. I had to edit some .sql files (those at
www/doc/sql/) because they used "/usr/local/pgsql/lib" and my
postgres installation uses "/usr/lib/pgsql". This happened
particulary in two files: /www/doc/sql/postgres.sql and
/www/doc/sql/postgres-pgtcl.sql. I had no need to see LANG
or pglang or anything like that you guys talk about in the forums.
I created a symlink at aolserver/servers/myserver.org.ni/
to my openacs directory. I created a modules directory there
so that aolserver can create an nslog directory with the access
logs there.
I compiled the driver from pgdriver-2.0.1 I had to edit the makefile
to use my own directories specification. And put it in the bin
directory of aolserver.
I copied myserver.org.ni/parameters/ad.tcl to myserver.org.ni.tcl
and change a few things there...
Then ran the aolserver... everything seems to be working now.
Created users, homepages... but I have problems using the content
section module, I can only create static content, no other option
is shown, at least not unless I am inside a group with the
custom module .
I also have problems when pressing the 'next' link
in a bboard when there is no next topic. And trying to see
pictures I uploaded in a custom section:section images in a group
I get: Error: invalid command name "ns_ora" [...]
file "myserver.org.ni/www/custom-sections/file/get-binary-file.tcl"
I also had to apply some patches, manually because I don't know
how to use cvs and I don't want to mess with my installation, is
there and easy way to apply all the patches using cvs?
thanks for your help,
javier
