[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen installation problems

[Qing Zou]

I have been using FC6, 7, and 8 to install Evergreen.
And now I am running Evergreen on Apache 2.2.6 (FC8) without any problem.

Jason

On 2/14/08, Keith Kelley <keith.kelley at wmich.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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>
>


-- 
Jason Zou
Lakehead University Library
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