[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen installation problems

[Keith Kelley]

 I'm using Redhat's Fedora Core, because we use Redhat Enterpise for
production servers. I don't really relish the idea of starting over
with an operating system I wouldn't use in production.
 
>>> John Fink <john.fink at gmail.com> 02/14/08 9:42 AM >>> 
I'm running Evergreen on Apache 2.2 just fine.  I think all my
installs have
been on 2.2.

As for your other issues, can I ask what platform you're trying to
install
Evergreen on?  I'm the first person to admit that Evergreen's
install
procedure is, uh, less than optimal, but recent innovations (John
Schmidt's
chroot installer, and Bill Erickson's make.install) has made things
much
easier.  Both of these are happiest when used under Debian, which
is what
Evergreen is developed on.  If you're not using Debian, you might
want to
think about it.

jf


On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Keith Kelley
<keith.kelley at wmich.edu>
wrote:

>
> I have been trying to install evergreen for something like two
> weeks now, and have had nothing but problems. Let me start with
the
> ones I've overcome, so that others will not fall into this same
> pit:
>
> (1) Apache 2.2.x will not work, Apache 2.0.x must be used.
> (2) Postgres 8.3 will not work, Postgres 8.0, 8.1, or 8.2 must
be
> used.
> (3) mod_perl must be downloaded and installed after apache (I
> wouldn't have run into this problem if I didn't start with
apache
> 2.2.x)
> (4) libmemcache must be installed (a separate thing from
> memcached)
> (5) There are no installation instructions for OpenSRF (the link
> from the installation page goes to a new document)
> (6) The installation document for evergreen itself is buried
very
> deep and called "generic installation"
>
> Where I really got stuck was at the apache configuration. I
gather
> one is supposed to use the eg_vhost.conf, as included from
eg.conf.
> Even if you click on the "Original Format" link you end up with
an
> html page. You cannot cut and paste this document either, as
that
> grabs line numbers as well. I think the only way to get this file
is
> the svn command line client. Also, one must delete the
ScriptAlias
> directive from the existing httpd.conf before including eg.conf
or
> apache won't start. Also, the directive OSRFGatewayLegacyJSON
must
> be commented out as it is not recognized and will also cause
apache
> to not start --  the comments say it is important, but it's
clearly
> not since it's not even valid (as of OpenSRF- 0.9).
>
> Then, the opensrf_core.xml page doesn't tell what directory to
copy
> the example file to.
>
> At some point during editing all these config files it became
> painfully obvious that to put evergreen in /opt/openils rather
than
> /openils was a mistake.
>
> The page regarding opensrf.xml is actually titled openils.xml,
so
> there enters even more confusion.
>
> All of the links under "5. Bootstrapping the System" are wrong.
>
> To test the apache config files and even get this far it was
> necessary to have memcached running or I got only a misleading
error
> about a missing library.
>
> Now, after finally getting it installed and trying to configure
the
> system I'm left with these errors in the error.log:
>
> Thu Feb 14 08:47:49 2008] [error] [client 141.218.31.28]
> actor::org_unit_type can't SELECT id, name, opac_label, depth,
> parent, can_have_vols, can_have_users, referer:
> http://wlib128.wmlib.wmich.edu/cgi- bin/config.cgi
> [Thu Feb 14 08:47:49 2008] [error] [client 141.218.31.28] FROM
> actor.org_unit_type, referer:
> http://wlib128.wmlib.wmich.edu/cgi- bin/config.cgi
> [Thu Feb 14 08:47:49 2008] [error] [client 141.218.31.28] :
> DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR:  schema "actor" does not
exist,
> referer: http://wlib128.wmlib.wmich.edu/cgi- bin/config.cgi
> [Thu Feb 14 08:47:49 2008] [error] [client 141.218.31.28]  [for
> Statement "SELECT id, name, opac_label, depth, parent,
> can_have_vols, can_have_users, referer:
> http://wlib128.wmlib.wmich.edu/cgi- bin/config.cgi
> [Thu Feb 14 08:47:49 2008] [error] [client 141.218.31.28] FROM
> actor.org_unit_type, referer:
> http://wlib128.wmlib.wmich.edu/cgi- bin/config.cgi
> [Thu Feb 14 08:47:49 2008] [error] [client 141.218.31.28] "] at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/DBIx/ContextualFetch.pm line 52.,
> referer: http://wlib128.wmlib.wmich.edu/cgi- bin/config.cgi
> [Thu Feb 14 08:47:49 2008] [error] [client 141.218.31.28]  at
> /opt/openils/var/cgi- bin/org_unit_types.cgi line 117, referer:
> http://wlib128.wmlib.wmich.edu/cgi- bin/config.cgi
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
>


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