Forum OpenACS Q&A: Error in server log

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1: Error in server log
Posted by Nathan Reeves on 04/11/00 03:19 AM
Managed to finally get AOLServer 3.0RC2 and Postgres 7.0 Beta 3
loaded and running.  I've pulled the latest CVS copy of ACS/pg
yesterday from sourceforge and built my DB and apart from a parse
error in events.sql, everything seems to have been loaded
successfully.

I start Aolserver up fine, and checking the server log shows that it
it is loading a number of the tcl files successfully form the acs/pg
tcl directory.

When I try an load index.tcl I get a "500 - Server error" message
appear.  Checking the logs, I find the message "Error: tcl/user-group-
defs.tcl: function ug_serve_group_pages: first element in url_list is
not [ad_parameter Groups Directory ug]"

If I call up any static html files AOLServer serves them fine.

Any ideas where my error is?

Thanks

Nathan

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2: Response to Error in server log (response to 1)
Posted by Ben Adida on 04/11/00 04:06 AM
You need to check your setup with the parameters file. Check the docs, but generally you should look inside parameters/ad.ini and change "yourservername" to your actual server name. Make sure to include the auxconfigdir parameter in your main parameter file, too.
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3: Response to Error in server log (response to 1)
Posted by Nathan Reeves on 04/11/00 05:37 AM
If I am running AOLServer with nsd.tcl instead of nsd.ini as the server config file, should I be using yourservername.tcl or yourservername.ini?

Nathan

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4: Response to Error in server log (response to 1)
Posted by Nathan Reeves on 04/11/00 05:44 AM
Just found the answer to my question.  Yourservername.ini is used all the time it seems.

NAthan

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5: Response to Error in server log (response to 1)
Posted by Jose Mercado on 04/27/00 08:23 PM
I have teh same error. Is there any way to actually fix it? Also, and I am nto sure if this is related, I cannot log in as system. I can an error message in my browser and the server logs report: 
[27/Apr/2000:14:23:26][25405.5125][-conn1-] Error: nsd.tcl: can't use non-numeric string as operand of "&&"
can't use non-numeric string as operand of "&&"
    while executing
"if { [ad_parameter UsersTableContainsConvertedUsersP] && $converted_p == "t" } {
    # we have a user who never actively registered; he or she was 
   ..."
    (file "/webroot/test/acspg/www/register/user-login.tcl" line 67)
    invoked from within
"source $script"
    invoked from within
"if ![file exists $script] {
                ns_returnnotfound $conn
        } else {
                source $script
        }"
    (procedure "ns_sourceproc" line 3)
    invoked from within
"ns_sourceproc cns14 {}"
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6: Response to Error in server log (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 04/27/00 10:48 PM
Jose, the error you're getting is due to not defining your server name  in the virtual server's ACS configuration file (the one you make from  parameters/ad.tcl).

This means that the predicate referenced by ad_parameters hasn't been defined for your virtual server, so ad_parameters returns "".

if [ "" && ... ] is indeed an error, just like Tcl sez.

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7: Response to Error in server log (response to 1)
Posted by Jose Mercado on 04/27/00 10:57 PM
Hmm, switching to ad.ini vs. ad.tcl seems to fix everything.  It seems as if my ad.tcl wasn't being parsed at all.
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8: Response to Error in server log (response to 1)
Posted by Ben Adida on 04/27/00 11:02 PM
Yes, remember that you have to parse you .tcl param file MANUALLY, it won't be done automatically. You should add: 
source /web/yourservername/parameters/youservername.tcl
to the end of your main nsd.tcl file.
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9: Response to Error in server log (response to 1)
Posted by Michael A. Cleverly on 04/28/00 03:02 AM
You could also change:

if { [ad_parameter UsersTableContainsConvertedUsersP] && $converted_p == "t" } {

to:

if { [ad_parameter UsersTableContainsConvertedUsersP 0] && $converted_p == "t" } {

which makes for a saner default in my opinion...

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10: Response to Error in server log (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 04/28/00 04:24 PM
Yeah, Mike, you're right.  Why not make the change and commit it when you have a moment?