Forum OpenACS Q&A: ad_parameter error

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1: ad_parameter error
Posted by Bob Long on 08/16/00 04:51 PM
Just getting started with OpenACS. Installed OpenACS, AOLServer,
Postgres, compiled the pgdriver from this site. AOLServer starts fine
and connects to Postgres, but when I try to access a page it won't
load and the the server.log file states,

"invalid command name 'ad_parameter'"
    while executing
"ad_parameter SpecialIndexPage content"

I'm sure this is something small that I'm overlooking, but darn if I
can find it. Any ideas?

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2: Response to ad_parameter error (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 08/16/00 05:04 PM
It means that you didn't correctly tell it where the Tcl library is, which means you haven't configured nsd.tcl correctly.

Did you follow the installation guide?  You've listed a bunch of things that you've done but conspicuously missing is "and then I configured nsd.tcl and <page_root>/parameters/ad.tcl".  You need to configure the configuration files before firing up OpenACS.

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3: Response to ad_parameter error (response to 1)
Posted by Bob Long on 08/16/00 05:45 PM
Thanks. It looks like I may have followed the instructions a little *too* closely.

I copied and renamed the ad.tcl file and set that in nsd.tcl. But I neglected to edit the path to the Tcl library.

It's working now.