Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: server error in a new install

Well in the log I see a line at many places

/var/log/aolserver4/aolserver4.log
I see

at many places

[24/Feb/2011:22:46:36][2402.18446744071776978688][-shutdown-] Notice: nslog: closing '/var/log/aolserver4/aolserver4.log'
[24/Feb/2011:22:46:36][2402.18446744071777384192][-main-] Error: pidfile: failed to remove '/var/run/aolserver4/aolserver4.pid': 'No such file or directory'
[24/Feb/2011:22:46:36][2402.18446744071777384192][-main-] Notice: nsmain: AOLserver/4.5.1 exiting

also /var/log/aolserver4/openacs/error.log

shows

[24/Feb/2011:23:27:23][6871.496690944][-default:1-] Notice: location "http://openacs.openitup.in:8000/*"; url http://192.168.1.5:8000/?= match 0
[24/Feb/2011:23:27:23][6871.496690944][-default:1-] Notice: location "http://openacs.openitup.in/*"; url http://192.168.1.5:8000/?= match 0
[24/Feb/2011:23:27:23][6871.505095936][-default:2-] Warning: security::locations hostname '192.168.1.5' from config.tcl does not match from util_current_location: openacs.openitup.in
[24/Feb/2011:23:27:23][6871.505095936][-default:2-] Notice: location "http://openacs.openitup.in:8000/*"; url http://192.168.1.5:8000/?= match 0
[24/Feb/2011:23:27:23][6871.505095936][-default:2-] Notice: location "http://openacs.openitup.in/*"; url http://192.168.1.5:8000/?= match 0
[24/Feb/2011:23:27:23][6871.509298432][-default:3-] Warning: security::locations hostname '192.168.1.5' from config.tcl does not match from util_current_location: openacs.openitup.in
[24/Feb/2011:23:27:23][6871.509298432][-default:3-] Notice: location "http://openacs.openitup.in:8000/*"; url http://192.168.1.5:8000/?= match 0
[24/Feb/2011:23:27:23][6871.509298432][-default:3-] Notice: location "http://openacs.openitup.in/*"; url http://192.168.1.5:8000/?= match 0
[24/Feb/2011:23:31:39][6871.500893440][-default:0-] Error: return: failed to redirect 'GET /global/file-not-found.html': exceeded recursion limit of 3

here I would like to mention that I had done ProxyPass things yesterday and have deleted it.

This is a fresh install which when I open in browser as

http://localhost:8000
is automatically getting redirected

http://localhost:8000/openacs.openitup.in

which should not happen at least when installing on local machine (I am not interested to bring it on internet at this moment)

and in /var/log/aolserver4/openacs

I see

122.167.133.208 - - [24/Feb/2011:23:27:23 +0530] "GET /?= HTTP/1.1" 302 309 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/9.0.597.94 Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13" 0.001909 -
122.167.133.208 - - [24/Feb/2011:23:27:23 +0530] "GET /?= HTTP/1.1" 302 309 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/9.0.597.94 Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13" 0.001905 -
122.167.133.208 - - [24/Feb/2011:23:27:23 +0530] "GET /?= HTTP/1.1" 302 309 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/9.0.597.94 Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13" 0.001945 -
122.167.133.208 - - [24/Feb/2011:23:27:23 +0530] "GET /?= HTTP/1.1" 302 309 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/9.0.597.94 Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13" 0.001999 -

I think when I removed the openacs before doing a fresh install some config file has been left there which is creating problem.

I checked this thread
https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=1855040
and
before doing a fresh install had done
dpkg --purge openacs
dpkg --purge postgresql

then aptitude install postgresql
and then aptitude install openacs so now when I am just trying to install then this problem of redirection should be happening at all.
I have disabled the site openacs.openitup.in for now and want this to get up and running on computer on LAN where I am trying to install it and accessing as
http://localhost:8000

but here also it is having problem.

Well yes the openacs database was there as you mentioned in other thread also to delete I deleted.
Now I did
aptitude purge openacs
but I still see config files in /etc/aolserver4
/etc/init.d/aloserver4
and /etc/default/aolserver just removing these files and installing again will be fine or I need to do
find / -name 'openacs*'
and remove what ever comes
and same with
find / -name 'aolserver4*'

and remove what ever comes

then install.Is this what you mean.

Ok I had done a re install and now this time things really worked smoothly.
I can see http://localhost:8000

Here is now where my doubts begin.
The LAN IP of machine where OpenACS is installed is
192.168.1.5

so I previously to make this accessible to any one on LAN had
done in /etc/aolserver4/conf.d/openacs.sh

changed

AOL_USER=www-data
AOL_GROUP=www-data
AOL_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1
AOL_PORT=8000
RUN_DAEMON=yes

to

AOL_USER=www-data
AOL_GROUP=www-data
AOL_ADDRESS=192.168.1.5
AOL_PORT=8000
RUN_DAEMON=yes

is this right?
and during installation it asked to enter Canonical URL name for server
I have entered there
http://openacs.openitup.in

I dropped the :8000 part.

Is this correct?

Because now I will configure Apache Reverse proxy which is at a machine physically different location than where OpenACS runs.

I think upto here we have been able to correctly bring thing on track.

You can check http://openacs.openitup.in

is accessible on internet.
Now comes the real problem because of which all the hotch potch had happened.
When I login with the account which I had created during installation from internet on

http://openacs.openitup.in

then I see after some time the connection breaks

and I see the URL
http://openacs.openitup.in:8000/

now port 8000 is not opened on the Gateway which faces internet (that is the reason I am using Apache Reverse Proxy)
So how can I avoid when some one logs in to the site this port to come in URL.

No it is http://openacs.openitup.in only.