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

[Ed LaFrance]

At 08:11 PM 06/28/2001 -0500, 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.

In Minivend, the 'special' pages were located in yourcat/pages/special.  In 
Interchange, they were relocated to yourcat/special_pages.  The SpecialPage 
directive is still relative to the pages directory, so assuming you ported 
your old catalog.cfg to IC, and you want to use the 'new' missing.html 
page, you would need to change:

SpecialPage   missing   special/missing

to:

SpecialPage   missing   ../special_pages/missing

Send the shirt to Shaq with my regards, I could make a jumpsuit out of an 
XL and still have material left over :-)

- Ed L.



>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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