Re: [Connotea-discuss] Apache configuration problems

[Martin F. <ma...@ne...>]

Hello Brian,

Brian wrote:
> Connotea is awesome and I can't wait to get it going - just wanted to get
> that out of the way before I start complaining :)

Thank you, glad to have you installing it. Sorry for the quietness of 
response, some people are currently away.

> Installing the perl modules was a huge undertaking, `cpan' seems incapable
> of it (i used cpanplus), and the list of modules to be installed is
> incomplete by roughly ten items. That said, I managed to get through it all.

Was it automatically fetching dependencies as well? The list is mostly 
the literally "use'd" modules, probably missing dependent modules that 
the cpan utility can get for you. If there are a few more missing I'd 
love to add them - I see you've sent a follow up email on this.

> Right now my installation is nearly ready but I am having issues with the
> apache configuration. First, I don't use a VirtualHost as this web server is
> not specific to Connotea, so I can't follow your configuration exactly.
> Second, I can't tell if it is configured correctly but I'm having some kind
> of authentication issue. So hopefully someone here can look at what i've got
> in apache2.conf in addition to our live connotea directory and give me some
> tips!
> 
> Live connotea directory: http://grey.colorado.edu/connotea/
> 
> Apache2.conf. If I remove the <Directory> section my server issues the 403
> Forbidden status code. If I leave it in I can view the directory but I get a
> directory listing and not a page. So I'm not sure what to do here.
> 
> PerlOptions +Parent
> PerlSwitches -I/usr/local/connotea
> PerlModule Bibliotech::Apache
> PerlModule Bibliotech::AuthCookie
> 
> Alias /connotea /usr/local/connotea/site/default
> <Location /usr/local/connotea/site/default>
>       SetHandler perl-script
>       PerlHandler Bibliotech::Apache
>       PerlAuthenHandler Bibliotech::AuthCookie::authen_handler
>       AuthName Bibliotech
>       AuthType basic
>       require valid-user
> </Location>

I believe a <Location> specifier should be in the URI space, so 
/usr/local... can't be right.

We've got a development server that runs four instances of Connotea Code 
on one instance of Apache 2. Let me take a look at that configuration 
and send a follow up.

Martin Flack