[ic] "Missing special page" error after site move (answer wins RH t-shirt)

[Mark Stosberg]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Kyle Cook wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Heres a quick thought, run makecat to  make a new ('sample' or 'simple'?)
> store, then see if it runs, if it does then compare your directory structures
> etc.

Kyle,

You may be the winner. I got "simple" to install from makecat, so I may be
on the path to success. I'm going to "diff" the two directories in the
morning and see if I can find the crucial difference. Thanks for the
suggestion!

   -mark

>
> PS I moved an MV3.15 w/ 100+ catalogs between 2 FreeBSD machines
> just a few months ago. The MV move turned out to be the simplest part
> of the move. ( DNS, sendmail, UID/GID matching, cronjobs .......)
>
> PPS I don't really need the shirt, I heard it had some bugs still :-)
>
> Kyle Cook
>
>
> At 06:11 PM 6/28/01, you wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have an especially challenging Interchange puzzle to solve. The first
> >one of you that offers help that leads me to solve it wins a free
> >Red-Hat Interchange t-shirt (size XL, white, never worn, I pay
> >shipping.) Now on with the fun.
> >
> >SHORT STORY
> >In summary, we moved our Minivend installation to what we think is a
> >nearly identical environment and we now get this error in the store logs
> >when we run the server:
> >"Runtime error: Missing special page: ../special_pages/missing". This is
> >when requesting a page known to exist-- so it can't find the page or the
> >missing page page.
> >
> >LONG STORY
> >We're in the process of moving out Minivend 4.04a installation to a new
> >server. We've attempted to replicate the environment as closely as
> >possible. Both systems run FreeBSD 4.3 and paths,users and permissions
> >have all been kept exactly the same. (I think the numeric userid's
> >changed, but the usernames are all the same.).
> >
> >The only significant difference, as far as we can tell, is that we
> >needed to change the configuration to work with "www2.server.com"
> >instead of "www.server.com"
> >
> >Below are the diffs between the store catalog.cfg and the minivend.cfg
> >file-- These are the only things we changed from one installation to the
> >other. We've verified that the all the paths are [appear to be] correct.
> >
> >in store/catalog.cfg:
> >3c3
> >< Variable    SERVER_NAME     www.server.com
> >---
> > > Variable    SERVER_NAME     www2.server.com
> >7c7
> >< Variable    SECURE_SERVER   www.server.com
> >---
> > > Variable    SECURE_SERVER   www2.server.com
> >12c12
> >< Variable    SAMPLEURL       http://www.server.com/store
> >---
> > > Variable    SAMPLEURL       http://www2.server.com/store
> >#########
> >
> >in minivend.cfg:
> >< Catalog    store /home/user/catalogs/ssp
> >www.server.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi
> > > Catalog    store /home/user/catalogs/ssp www2.server.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi
> >
> >So as you can see, none of the paths to pages changed. (We reality
> >checked that the paths still point to places with pages anyway.
> >
> >You can still win the shirt if you have to ask me questions to solve the
> >problem. You can even win it if you  already an employee of Red Hat.
> >
> >Thank you very much for helping with this mystery!
> >
> >   -mark
> >
> >http://mark.stosberg.com/
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