[ic] Help! I broke my catalog!

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Jan 11 13:09:00 2002


At 07:50 AM 01/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>I just checked the log again, it says:
>
>table 'products' failed: Couldn't create 
>/home/craftsma/catalogs/craftsma/products/products.txt.10: Permission denied
>
>What is this products.txt.10 file all about?

It is an index of a particular column (#10) in the products table.  More 
generally, permission denied indicates that may be an issue with file 
permissions in your hosting space. You may want to ask your host to review 
his settings for the IC server and hosted catalogs.

- Ed L.


>On Fri, 11 January 2002, Rick Dickulous wrote:
>
> >
> > I posted previously about adding a field to my cat table and received 
> no replies. I took this as a sign that either I was on the right track or 
> an idiot so I went ahead and added a tab and a field name to the top line 
> of my cat.txt file and hit applied changes. This worked just fine, I saw 
> the new field in the admin, changed the widget, added some data and 
> retreived it on the results page just where I needed it. So far so good.
> >
> > Then, I needed another field in my products table, so I did the same 
> thing. I added a tab and a field name to products.txt, applied changes 
> and it broke! The error log said "could not create database table 
> products.txt" so I right away undid my change but it was too late. I 
> called my admin who restarted the ic server which didn't help. We backed 
> up my catalog and recreated the foundation demo and wrote my catalog 
> directory back and that didn't work either. We now get the following error:
> >
> > Undefined catalog: /~craftsma/cgi-bin/cart.cgi
> >
> > So how can I fix my site, and in the future how do I add columns to the 
> database tables through the admin instead of sneaking along underneath by 
> direct editing of the .txt files?
> >
> >
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