Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Strange character issue on old OACS Site

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2: Re: Strange character issue on old OACS Site (response to 1)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 10/10/18 08:04 AM
In case you are using AOLserver, make sure to upgrade to 4.5.2. Sounds like [1].

[1] https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=4229777

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3: Re: Strange character issue on old OACS Site (response to 2)
Posted by Jon Griffin on 10/10/18 04:19 PM
Yes, I'm using the latest Debian which I believe is 4.5.1.

I will try that and hope it works. Is Naviserver the better recommendation now?

Thanks

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4: Re: Strange character issue on old OACS Site (response to 2)
Posted by Jon Griffin on 10/10/18 04:28 PM
Any ideas where 4.5.2 lives now? I can only find 4.5.1 on github
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5: Re: Strange character issue on old OACS Site (response to 4)
Posted by Jon Griffin on 10/10/18 05:27 PM
Never mind, I found it, but can't compile for some reason. Keeps saying ./util/nsmakeall.tcl: Permission denied

Even though I'm root.

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6: Re: Strange character issue on old OACS Site (response to 5)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 10/11/18 11:03 AM
If the plan is to make as little as possible changes on an ancient version of OpenACS, one should fix AOLserver. I think one should be able to compile it with moderate tweaks. Maybe, one has to replace ./util/nsmakeall.tcl by tclsh ./util/nsmakeall.tcl.

if the plan is to upgrade the instance to some future-safe version (recent versions of Tcl, PostgreSQL, security fixes, etc.), It is recommended to use NaviServer instead of AOLserver. One can get a recent version of OpenACS with NaviServer with [1] compiled on many Unix versions. This install-script gives you at least proper binaries and a config file for OpenACS with NaviServer that can be usually quickly adjusted to local needs.

all the best
-g
[1] https.//openacs.org/xowiki/naviserver-openacs