[ic] CGI(?) problem with demo-catalog on SuSE

[Erich Schreiber]

 Just for the records and for those SuSE users, who are hit by the same
problem: I’ve got IC running on my SuSE 7.1.

1. When installing IC on SuSE as root, you need a login-shell (not ‘su’ but
‘su –‘), otherwise some tests in the configure script will fail.

2. The binary ‘construct’ in the cgi-bin that produced the ‘Unrecognized
character \x7F’ error in the PerlRun modul is either the renamed vlink or
tlink executable that forwards the requests via a Unix- or Inet-domain
socket to the interchange demon that is listening on localhost:7786. The
decision which Apache handler is evoked to execute the call is done by the
SetHandler directive in the appropriate <Location ...> sector of the
httpd.conf.

3. ‘cgi-bin’ worked for me, the ‘cgi-perl’ that was suggested by the makecat
script produced the error. But in the interchange/src directory there are
several different versions of the socket drivers (C, Perl, and even a
loadable Apache module) so this might work with mod_perl too. I didn’t check
it.

4. I got the demo catalog working with the INET-domain socket driver tlink.
For this I edited the /etc/hosts.allow (my hosts.deny is ALL:ALL) and the
/etc/services file to add ‘interchange: localhost’ and ‘interchange 7786/TCP
’. If this was really necessary for a localhost connection I didn’t check
either.

Erich Schreiber

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erich Schreiber" <erich@mmf.at>
>
> Beeing totally new to Interchange, I installed IC 4.6.5 from the tar-ball
to
> our local development-server running SuSE 7.1, got all the missing Perl
> modules from CPAN and run configure including the tests 1-6 successfully.
> All work was done as root. The server starts up without complains.
>
> Now when building the demo catalog I’m stuck with probably an CGI
> misconfiguration.
>
> The catalog is called form the start page with
> http://xxxxxx/cgi-perl/construct/index.html. This gives the following
> Internal Server Error: ‘The server encountered an internal error or
> misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.’
>
> And in the Apache error_log I read:
>
> [error] PerlRun: `[Wed Jul 25 06:10:34 2001] construct: Unrecognized
> character \x7F at /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/construct line 1.’
>
> As far as I understand, the file construct in the cgi-bin is an ELF-binary
> and is not recognized by cgi-mechanism. So what’s wrong?
>