Re: [Bobs-devel] bobs 0.6.1 install notes

[Rene R. <re...@gr...>]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 21:27, Joe Zacky wrote:
> 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.
> 
Wouldn't it be better to only remove the files we know we installed. And
the try to "rmdir dirname" for each dir we created. That will fail if
there are files in the dirs we didn't create. I think that is the sanest
way of doing this.


> >-  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.
> 

I usually run my servers without X and at times without any connections
expect power and network. The sometimes I develop on the local computer,
but not always.

> >
> >-  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.
> 

Ok, that is good.


> >- 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
> 

Have a nice vacation :)

Cheers
Rene