[ic] New Installation Problem

Dorothy Puma interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Tue Mar 11 14:13:00 2003


Steve Gertz wrote:
> After looking around for a few days (and playing with some code), I've 
> come to emailing the list.  Here's the sitiuation:
> 
> I've just installed interchange into /usr/local/interchange and I've run 
> bin/makecat, created databases (although they are empty), and when I try 
> to reload the interchange server I get the error of:
> 
> Configuring catalog foundation...foundation config error: Please specify 
> the MailOrderTo directive in the configuration file 'catalog.cfg'
> 
> After looking around (doing __MAIL_TO__ et al replacements) I get:
> 
> foundation config error: products not a database, cannot use as products 
> file
> 
> For some reason it doesn't appear that the 
> catalog/foundation/product/variable.txt file is being parsed properly 
> (as it appears that this file has all of the variables that I replaced 
> from catalog.cfg)
> 
> Any thoughs on how this would occur / how to fix?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Steve Gertz
> 
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I had the same problem, this is a permissions problem. Make sure the 
interchange user has rw permissions to the products directory.
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dorothy