Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Installation Guide

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3: Re: Installation Guide (response to 1)
Posted by David Bell on
I got the documentation from the website at https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-4-6-2/unix-install.html, and i used the openacs-4-6.tgz tar ball downloaded from https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/download-verify?revision_id=69738
and aol server from
http://uptime.openacs.org/aolserver-openacs/aolserver3.3oacs1.tar.gz

Hope that helps

David

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4: Re: Installation Guide (response to 3)
Posted by Joel Aufrecht on
mmm, yeah. You had the most recent docs (from 4.6.2) and the matching aolserver, but the tarball was 4.6. There's a line in config.tcl, which is derived from a file in the tarball, which references either postgres.so or nspostgres.so. The newest aolserver tarballs have switched from postgres.so to nspostgres.so, so you could also have solved the problem by changed config.tcl (which is actually called openacs4.tcl, I think, in earlier versions) instead of installing the new driver. In fact, you should try that anyway, because the new driver has better error reporting and will save you a lot of time rooting in the logs.

What could have been different on the site to point you in the direction of the newest tarball?