[ic] Ok now I am having other problems - placing the web in a users dir

[Steve & Patti Getzinger]

For M permissions should have specified that the group is eric (there is a group
named eric right?) and minivend should be a member of the group eric. To start
with that is. I am very curious as to why the .cgi extension but I'll leave that
one lay :)

Steve


Beriah Dutcher wrote:

> Ok now that i have a sample store running in the default apache dir, I would
> like some assistance with getting one of my users on my machine setup using
> this. I have tried a number of times to get this to work but to no avail. I
> think that I am placing the worng path in the wrong place at the wrong time.
> So I have cut and pasted my entires in this email and also described what I
> am TRYING to do.
>
> First off im running this on my priivate lan right now and will be placing
> this on the web when we get our t1. the name of the machine is censerver and
> the user i am trying to get working is eric. The apache config is setup to
> look for user webs in the 'www' in the user home dir. That is working fine.
> However I am having a problem with getting interchange to install in that
> dir.(I think im not specifying path's right so heres what i did maybe you
> guys can tell me what i did wrong.
>
> Catalog name? eric
>
> Server name? [freefall] censerver
>
> DemoType? [barry]
>
> permtype? [M]
>
> MiniVendUser? [minivend]
>
> CatUser? [eric]
>
> MiniVendGroup?
>
> MailOrderTo? [eric]
>
> CatRoot? [/usr/home/eric] /usr/home/eric/catalogs
>
> CgiDir? [/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin] /usr/home/eric/www/cgi-bin
>
> CgiUrl? [/cgi-bin/eric.cgi]
>
> Aliases? [/eric]
>
> DocumentRoot? [/usr/local/apache/htdocs] /usr/home/eric/www
>
> SampleHtml? [/usr/home/eric/www/eric]
>
> ImageDir? [/usr/home/eric/www/eric/images]
>
> ImageUrl? [/eric/images]
>
> INET or UNIX mode? [INET] UNIX
>
> Account name that will control this catalog: ..[eric]
>
> Found system commands to run.
>
> done.
> Moving link program to /usr/home/eric/www/cgi-bin/eric.cgi..done.
> Moving HTML files to /usr/home/eric/www/eric................done.
> Moving image files to /usr/home/eric/www/eric/images........done.
>
> Found additional system commands to run.
>
> To enable image upload feature, you need to make a symbolic
> link of the image base directory into your catalog directory.
>
> run "ln -s /usr/home/eric/www/eric/images /usr/home/eric/catalogs"? ..[y]
> Add catalog to minivend.cfg? [y]
>
> Done with installation. If my reading of your input is correct, you
> should be able to access the demo catalog with the following URL:
>
>         http://censerver/eric
>
> In any case, you should get direct access at:
>
>         http://censerver/cgi-bin/eric.cgi
>
> That is, after you START or RESTART the Interchange server.  8-)
> It is best done with:
>
>         su -c "/usr/local/minivend/bin/minivend -r" minivend
>
> For session expiration, you might want to place a line like this in your
> crontab:
>
> 44 4 * * * /usr/local/minivend/bin/expireall -r
>
> It will prevent the session databases from getting too large.
>
> Ok there it is ....... when it asked for the server name should I have
> specified censerver/~eric????
>
> Beriah
>
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