Re: [Bobs-devel] bobs 0.6.1 install notes

[Joe Z. <jz...@co...>]

Rene Rask wrote:

>These are some notes on my install of bobs 0.6.1 on a new server.
>
>-  I could't configure bobs to be placed in "/var/www/html". I manually
>moved the files from "/var/www/html/bobs" and edited the config.php
>file.
>  
>
That's correct. Whatever directory you request, it adds /bobs to the end 
of the path. I figure that's safer to put it in a separate directory 
because I don't want to uninstall something that wasn't installed. If 
you run 'make uninstall-all' it will 'rm -rf' the entire bobs directory.

>-  I tried to check the remote server I just configured with systemcheck
>in the admin interface. This gave me an error about systemcheck.php not
>being found. I changed a line in admin.php to fix this:
>header("Location: http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . "/" . $bobsdir .
>"systemcheck.php?server=$server&share=$share");
>
>  
>
FIXME: (note to self)
Were you connecting to bobs web interface from another machine? That 
would make sense because I've only tested it from the computer I have 
bobs installed on.

>
>-  The systemcheck gives the following errors:
>
>Attempting to mount for restore method type "nfs" using this command:
>mount -t nfs "workshopserver:/workshop/project"
>"/mnt/tera/bobsdata/current/process/mounts/workshopserver/project" FAIL
>Mount failed with this message:
>mount: mount point
>/mnt/tera/bobsdata/current/process/mounts/workshopserver/project does
>not exist
>
>I thought this was fixed already? Is there a patch somewhere that hasn't
>been applied?
>Anyway. I created the dirs and systemcheck performs as expected. :-)
>  
>
FIXME:
I see it was only half fixed. It would have worked if nfs was also the 
backup method. I need to add the 'create directories if they don't 
exist" routine in the "restore method" check also.

>- And of course the db4 instead of db3 problem. I can't find a clever
>way to detect this with php. The php function that does this only works
>if you are using a quite new version of php. I still aim for php 4.0.6
>as a compatibility target.
>  
>
This is also on my "todo" list. There must be an easy solution.

>Cheers
>-Rene
>  
>
Thanks for the valuable feedback. I'm going on vacation next week so 
I'll take a look at these bugs when I get back.

Joe