[ic] Re: Setting up catalogs on multiple domains SOLVED

[Rick O'Neil]

>> >Rick,
>> >
>> >You might want to make sure you have a tmp directory under the catalog
>> >and that you have a directory for your session cache for the second
catalog.
>> >
>> >Also make sure that the permisions on your interchange socket allow the
>> >second catalog to write to the socket. On some systems with plesk I've
>> >had to set the permissions to 0666 using the following in the
>> >interchange.cfg
>> >
>> >SocketPerms 0666
>> >
>> >Shawn Mathews
>> >shawn at stuckinrealtime.us
>>
>>Shawn,
>>
>>Thanks again for the tips. I do in fact have a tmp directory and a session
>>cache directory both under the catalog I'm trying to get going (as well as
>>the one I have running successfully). I did add the socket permissions line
>>to interchange.cfg, but that didn't seem to make any difference.
>>
>>Other information that I've uncovered in looking around that may be useful:
>>
>>I am in fact running plesk on my system - I found detailed instructions on
>>Interchangeville for running IC on a plesk system:
>>http://interchangeville.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=952
>>
>>The main thing that is different is I wasn't running in INET mode - I was
>>running in UNIX mode. I tried running makecat as described in the message
>>using INET mode, but that doesn't make any difference (I still get an
>>internal server error when I try to go to the catalog). However, here is
>>where it gets interesting - I have been running IC in UNIX mode for
>>catalog1 on domain1 and I can run as many catalogs on domain1 as I want
>>(while using UNIX mode). If I switch to INET mode then try to go to the
>>catalogs the message I get for all domain1 catalogs is that the IC server
>>is unavailable, but for catalog2 on domain2 I continue to get an internal
>>server error.
>>
>>The other difference that I see is that the user interchange is running as
>>isn't "interch" but rather the user for domain1. Since the user for domain1
>>and domain2 are both a member of the "psacln" group I didn't think it
>>necessary to run as "interch". However, the one difference I can think of
>>is that "interch", as described in the Interchangeville post, would be a
>>full shell account, but the account for domain1 is a plesk virtual host
>>account - could this cause the problems I'm seeing? It seems unlikely to me
>>since I did go ahead and create an "interch" user account and followed the
>>directions there to a "t" and I continue to get the same behavior from IC
>>(internal server error for catalog2 running on domain2).
>>
>>I appreciate your help so far, Shawn, but do you, or anybody else, have any
>>other suggestions?
>>
>>-Rick
>
>Dear Rick -
>
>I run interchange on Plesk-managed systems. Try disabling suexec, which is 
>by default used by Plesk. Just located the binary 'suexec' (depending on 
>which Plesk dist you use, location can vary), and rename it to 
>suexec.disabled. Then restart apache, and check your catalog again. If you 
>still get a 500 error, try toggling the suid bit on the vlink file for the 
>catalog.
>
>- Ed L.

Ed & Shawn,

Thanks for your help. I disabled suexec as Ed suggested and everything is
working beautifully. I'm curious though, everything I've read about Plesk
and IC states/implies that suexec is required - why the misconception?

Thanks again, I'll be launching this afternoon.

-Rick