I have a very similar issue I also get the 404 error and can't register any
hosts. What OS is your spacewalk running on? I was told this is because of the
version of python that RHEL 5.2 is using.
-Steve
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> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:20:16 -0500
> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
>
> I log into spacewalk. From the first page, overview, I click on register
> systems. I get a 404:
> The page you requested, /rhn/help/client-config/en/index.jsp, was not found.
>
> I look in /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out, and see the same message that I
> mentioned a few weeks ago, when I spoke of hacking around with spacewalk, and
> was castigated for doing so:
> Feb 17, 2009 9:06:21 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig
> deployDescriptor
> WARNING: A docBase /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/rhn inside the host appBase has
> been specified, and will be ignored
>
> So, unless someone yells at me that there's a good reason not to, that doing
> so will break something else, I'm going to recursively copy the whole
> directory to /var/www/html. Last time, I tried symbolic links, and tomcat
> still complained.
>
> Does anyone have a good explanation for a) why the directory's under
> /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps, instead of /var/www/html, and b) this wasn't caught
> long before the release of 0.4? This time, I have *not*, until now, hacked at
> the system to make it work, but this functionality (or lack thereof) is
> obviously a problem.
>
> Actually, thinking further, I wonder if this was why both methods of
> registering a system, rhnreg_ks and rhn_register, gave error messages, even
> though it had succeeded.
>
> mark
>
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