[Openinteract-help] getting started

[Steve S. <sap...@gs...>]

I installed okay -- had some problems with Oracle, so I switched
to MySQL.  Everything's about working it seems.  One small bug I
can't figure out:

In the Illustrated Manager's Guide To OpenInteract doc, diagram.png
does not show up.  If I look for it directly I get a "File Not Found"
page error.  I have Apache set up with a front-end Apache proxying
back to a mod_perl Apache as suggested.  I see the request in both
logs.  I can see the doc as expected in a regular Apache server
environment.  Any ideas there?  I did add two rewrite rules to the
proxy to pick up existing CGI's and a directory as a migration path.
Neither of those rules remotely matches the diagram.png URL.

The bigger question I'm still tackling mentally reading the docs is
the best way to map data to pages.  I have many data sources -- some
database-oriented, some file based, some even from other sources.  We
have a tool set we developed that abstracts some of this into ETL like
transforms.  Ideally I want to plug into that.  I can see how I'd write
packages suitable for TT template substitution -- mostly I'd write
wrappers using this underlying toolset as the base data manager; the
wrappers mapping that to a TT model. That seems good enough, but it's
not clear to me if I should go beyond that and be importing data into OI.
What exactly is the difference?  Not too dumb a question I hope ...

This looks very good at first glance.

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Steve Sapovits    GSI Commerce, Inc.    http://www.gsicommerce.com
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