[ic] performed perfect tarball install, and still have same problems

Jonathan Clark interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sun Dec 22 10:16:00 2002


> Yesterday, I reinstalled the SME Server, which reformatted my linux
> machine. I read on the SME e-smith.org website in the FAQ section, that
> in order to be able to make and compile programs, I needed 8 files,
> which they listed for me.
> I grabbed my redhat discs, and copied those files on to my machine. I
> ran the rpm -Uvh make-* gcc-*, etc command with all the files included.
> It installed all those files perfectly without any dependencies, or
> conflicts.
>
> Then I downloaded the interchange 4.9.5 tarball
> After extracting it, yesterday, I ran ./configure and for about 10
> minutes it did all sorts of stuff. Every so often I had to press enter
> when it asked me a question. Then it said it installed just fine, and
> for me to run makecat
> So I performed ./bin/makecat It took a couple of times to get all my
> directories in the catalog just right, but I managed to get makecat to
> end successfully.
> After doing the chown on the proper files that I did on my other
> machine, which works great, I decided to load it up in my browser to see
> what I have.
>
> I brought up the customer and admin entrance screen. I clicked on the
> customer entrance, and it brought up the front page with all the tools.
> I clicked on everything on the page, and I get a page not found.
> Probably a 404 error.
>
> So I went back to the cust admin entrance, and clicked on admin, I get
> the same problem, it wouldn't load up the administration back end.
>
> This is the same problem I had when I did the rpm install
>
> I must not have a file in the right place or something...
>
> Thanks for being very helpful

Sounds like you are nearly there...

makecat does not set up apache for you. You need to have this properly
configured, with cgi-bin for your interchange link program.

As you are getting a not found error trying to view /cgi-bin/foundation (or
whatever you named it) you either told makecat the wrong place to put the
link program, or have your virtual server set slightly wrong.

Check your apache.conf for the ScriptAlias location for your virtual server,
and make sure that's where makecat put the link program.

good luck!

Jonathan
Webmaint.