Forum OpenACS Q&A: installing AOL server under SUSE LInux

The warnings are because you haven't set up nssl and nscp. You don't need to worry about those unless you want to use them. The error you're getting is because the user that nsd is running as (probably nsadmin) does not have write permissions on the directory /home/aolserver/log. If you run chown -R nsadmin /home/aolserver/log as root, that should fix the problem.

now, what do I have to do to look up "yourdomain.com:8000" as per instructions ? In my browser (netscape) I have apache server running as default. How do I get to see the aol server default page, to know that I am actually runnig the server?

That's my problem, I don't fully understand what "yourdomain.com" stands for. How do I link "yourdomain.com" to a directory on my computer ? As I have previously installed OpenAcs in /web, now I have something like /web/localhost, is this the directory where my web is going to be? and how do I link it to "yourdomain.com"...or "mydomain.com" ?....
Hope the above makes sense...and thanks for keeping up with me :)

If you haven't registered a domain name that corresponds to your IP address, then try changing your hostname parameter to your IP address:

For example I have a development machine that's web server is only on a LAN, I use the following in my .ini file:

[ns/server/ecom_4x_dev/module/nssock]
timeout=120
Address=10.0.0.10
Hostname=10.0.0.10
Port=8003

In a .tcl configuration file it would look this:

set httpport               8003
...
# The hostname and address should be set to actual values.
set hostname               10.0.0.10
set address                10.0.0.10

Hope this helps,

Thank you all for your answers. I think I need to mention that I am just starting with Linux, OpenAcs, and all this technology. So I have a lot to learn.

I am now in the process of setting up the nsd.tcl file so I can get the index.html from the /home/aolserver/server/server1 directory to run, and that will tell me that the aolserver is running ok ,right ?
I want to set nsd.tcl file up so the browser will take my machine as the webserver. (I haven't managed to do this in Windows with apache).

When I open Netscape I get apache runnig as default at http://localhost...how do I set nsd.tcl file so that at http://localhost I get the aolserver page, or what do i need to type in my browser to test the installation (in the instruction there was a mention of "yourdomain:8000", but I am unsure of how to translate this.

Also for example in "set homedir    [file dirname [ns_info config]" what does the ns_info config reffer to? or I can just change everything in the square brakets to whatever I wish (i.e. /home/aolserver). Where there is a $ sign in front of something, like in ${homedir} does this stand for something like put here whatever was set up as homedir?

Sorry if the above may sound daft or plain stupid, but this is the level I am at for the moment. I appreciate any answer.