Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: OpenACS 4.6.3/5.0.0b4 on Debian - Permissions Problem

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2: Re: OpenACS 4.6.3/5.0.0b4 on Debian - Permissions Problem (response to 1)
Posted by Cathy Sarisky on 12/30/03 07:03 AM
Hi John,

Sounds frustrating!

Could you please provide the following information, to possibly help with trouble-shooting?

-The command used to start AOLserver (with all flags)

-an ls -ltr on /var/lib/aolserver/dev_divvy

The directions for file locations and ownership changed between 4.6.3 and 5.0 - you mention installing both - which set of directions were you using for file permissions/ownership?

BTW, I've done a couple OpenACS 5.0 installs on Debian (stable) without any problems, but I've been compiling postgres from source.

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4: Re: OpenACS 4.6.3/5.0.0b4 on Debian - Permissions Problem (response to 2)
Posted by John Luong on 01/04/04 06:21 AM

Cathy,

Thanks for your response.

The following is how I start AOLServer. 

dev_divvy@jetson:~$ /usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd-postgres -t /var/lib/aolserver/dev_divvy/etc/config.tcl

The following is the result of a ls -ltr on /var/lib/aolserver/dev_divvy 

dev_divvy@jetson:/var/lib/aolserver/dev_divvy$ ls -lrt
total 40
-rwx------    1 dev_divv web          2058 Dec  8 10:11 readme.txt
drwx------    2 dev_divv web          4096 Dec 11 05:18 bin
drwx------    2 dev_divv web          4096 Dec 11 05:18 content-repository-content-files
drwx------    2 dev_divv web          4096 Dec 11 05:18 tcl
drwx------    4 dev_divv web          4096 Dec 11 05:18 www
drwx------   21 dev_divv web          4096 Dec 11 05:18 packages
drwx------    4 dev_divv web          4096 Dec 11 05:18 etc
drwx------    2 dev_divv web          4096 Dec 11 05:18 database-backup
drwxr-xr-x    2 dev_divv web          4096 Dec 28 05:40 apm-workspace
drwx------    2 dev_divv web          4096 Jan  4 00:00 log
dev_divvy@jetson:/var/lib/aolserver/dev_divvy$

I realize the instructions changed. I did everything up to the tarball as OpenACS 5 and then decided to try to install OpenACS 4, because this site might go to production in a few months and I'm not sure I'd be comfortable putting out an OpenACS 5-alpha site.

After failing with the OpenACS 4.6.3 install, I decided to go fire up OpenACS 5, since I figured I could develop on OpenACS 5 for the most part and then port it back to 4.6.3 in a hosted environment if I did go production in the next few months.

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5: Re: OpenACS 4.6.3/5.0.0b4 on Debian - Permissions Problem (response to 4)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 01/04/04 02:50 PM
Well, your unix file permissions are clearly wrong. Your files appear to all be readable only by you, dev_divv, but since AOLserver does not run as you that can't possibly work right. chmod them all to 644 or something like that. E.g.: 
$ find . -type d -print | xargs chmod 755
$ find . -type f -print | xargs chmod 644
When starting AOLserver, you should probably also be including the options "-i -u some-user -g web" on the command line.

Also, what version of AOLserver are you using?

Might go to production in 3+ months? I'd just go with 5.0 then. I haven't really been keeping track but sounds like they've been stomping lots of bugs and will officially release 5.0 soon, I assume much less than 3 months from now.