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

[Mark Stosberg]

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> 
> 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

I was finally able to solve this, and the solution was as mysterious as
the problem. The debugging process that led to answer aws to modify the
Minivend source, putting in logGlobal statements to isolate the error.
What was happening that was the configurations were right, but Minivend
was hitting permission denied errors at the system level. (I think at
the point there is a system error loading special_pages/missing,
Minivend should have reported that-- maybe that's changed in a new
version ). 

Ironically, the permissions were identical to the working store on the
other server, and they looked appropriate, they just didn't work on the
new server. So perhaps this is a FreeBSD issue. (or if all else fails,
maybe it could actually be a user error.). So we loosened the
permissions and it worked. Thanks!

 - mark 

http://mark.stosberg.com/