[ic] OS X Install

[F. Mitchell Felling II]

Help!!

I have been unable to get Interchange to run properly on Mac OS X.  I 
believe my problem to be associated with the "interch" user creation.

I have attempted installs creating the user both with the System 
Preferences:Users tool and a manual user creation using the NetInfo 
Manager (I would prefer this manner.)

In NetInfo I gave the User the following properties:
	realname		Interchange
	uid		72
	gid		70
	passwd		*
	shell		/dev/null
	expire		0
	home		/usr/local/interchange
	change		0
	name		interch

I have successfully installed a Mysql database (which functions 
flawlessly with perl cgi's and php scripts that I have tried).  I 
have also installed the DBD and DBI, thanks to wonderful posts by 
Leonel Silva.

I can su -m interch (-m flag needed since the specified shell is 
null) run /bin/interchange.  The server starts, populates the tables 
in mysql (on first run) and reports that the Interchange server has 
started.

However, when I try to enter the store from 
http://localhost/construct I receive a permission denied error (403) 
from Apache.  If I chmod -R 755 a bunch of permissions in the catalog 
directory and the CGI directory, I can get the construct cgi to 
attempt to communicate with the server, at which time I am told the 
server is unavailable.  Process Viewer and the top command indicated 
it is running normally.  ( I assume normal is for the name to read as 
perl?)

I was successful with one install when the user was created with the 
Users control panel, but the server would only run when I was logged 
in to the "interch" desktop.  I could not log in under my own account 
and start the server from a terminal window.  What is more, I would 
like to create a startup item so Interchange runs when no one is 
logged in, so I can ssh from work and develop from there.

I am running a PowerMac G4 Sawtooth with 576 Meg of ram and OS X.0.3. 
I have the default Apache install, Perl 5.6.0 for Darwin, and Mysql 
3.23.38.  The only thing I have added to Apache at this time is PHP 4 
support.

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
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