Scott,
I looked back through your logs and looked at my installation. Try this. Go to sql-ledger/users directory and from within there type: touch members Make sure the usual permissions are set to whatever you have it set at the moment. And then see if you can get to admin.pl (rather than login.pl) If THAT doesn't work, I have some comments below. On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:28:05PM +0100, Scott Taylor wrote: > > > I had a previous sql-ledger in /usr/local/www/sql-ledger and only > > > this has a members directory. The current /usr/local/sql-ledger has > > > none...if it should then why hasn't this come from the install? > > That tells me that there's something to do with the configuration file > > you haven't disclosed. > If I have left out something from the config file, then I am not aware of > it. Ok. Well, what is DocumentRoot set to? If you have DocumentRoot set to /usr/local/www/ and you don't have something like Alias /sql-ledger/ /usr/local/sql-ledger or ScriptAlias /sql-ledger/ /usr/local/sql-ledger It will be pointint to /usr/local/www/sql-ledger rather than /usr/local/sql-ledger > > This is so weird. You mean to tell me that you installed different > > versions of httpd, too? It sounds like you tried to do a custom > > compile of apache (without cleaning up the old copy?). Exactly what > > distro are you using? > I had 1.3.23 then 2.0.39, but because of the logrotate problem in RH 7.3 I > had to install latest 1.3.27. That's very weird. I don't run RH 7.3, though, so I wouldn't know. My installation started as 6.2 and then I steadly backcompiled 7.0, 7.1, and 7.3 packages. It was a matter of getting the SRPMS and popping in a different copy of apache. It is also a pain in the ass. But anyways, that's just an aside. > Yes I was using SL with no problems, until I was forced to change my Apache > version because of logrotate. All 3 installs of SL have been on my machine > so there is nothing to compare, because I installed 1.8.7 over the top of > 1.8.4 in /usr/local/sql-ledger. I still have 1.8.2 in > /usr/local/www/sql-ledger though. Ok. That explains a lot. If worse comes to worse, you just might have to do a fresh install of 1.8.7 and then set everything back up again. By "fresh", I mean, creating a new directory and then installing it in there. > > Keep in mind that your httpd.conf might be pointing to the copy of > > /usr/local/sql-ledger which has none. Your logs alternate between > > permission denied and a none-existant directory which suggests a > > confusion between those directories. I don't know how you got an > > installation that doesn't have a members directory, though it is > > required if you want to actually use it. > > > If I unpack SL over the top of /usr/local/sql-ledger again would this work? I don't know. I've never tried unpacking 1.8.7 on top of an old one. I WOULD do a mv sql-ledger sql-ledger-1.8.4 and then do the unpack so it would unpack to a fresh directory. Then give it a shot. > On the contrary, I am not set in my ways. Everyone has said that I can run > it as apache, nobody or something else that does not have root permission > because it doesn't matter as long as you are consistent. Having failed under > apache I was merely trying something else. Ok, I wasn't clear that you had already gotten something working under apache:apache -- I had thought you were installing it fresh again. I apologize for jumping to the wrong conclusion. > What makes you think something is wrong with Apache? It is running fine. > Sounds like SL is the problem if there is no members directory. Should I > unpack another file on my SL directory? If it's not finding the "members" file, you can create an empty file in users/ by typing "touch members". What Perl is trying to do is read that non-existant file. I am not sure where the "permission denied" thing comes in, but one thing at a time, yes? -Qaexl- http://www.next-horizons.com/qaexl/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm ------------------------------------------------------- (un)subscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sql-ledger-users Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
