[Openinteract-help] oi_manage w/ apply_package, fails 'Website name not set in package object'

[Jon <jo...@3e...>]

hi!

Recently installed OI, all working fine, looks great, dead chuffed, mum's 
proud.  Two things:

1) [probably a documentation issue]  Following 
http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/docs/developer.shtml

... setting up the 'fruit' package, changing only the name of the demo code 
from 'fruit' to 'demo', and changing the spec of the initial MySQL 
table.  All was going fine, including...

oi_manage --base_dir=/usr/local/OpenInteract 
--package_file=demo-0.01.tar.gz install_package

But All Of A Sudden:

[root@3evtowers demo]# oi_manage --base_dir=/usr/local/OpenInteract 
--website_dir=/home/httpd/OIdemo --package=demo apply_package
Running apply_package...
=========================

Status of the packages you requested to be applied:
demo (0.01)
   FAILED!: Cannot install package to website. Error: Website name not
            set in package object.


Hard to trace, as I cannot find this defined anywhere - the error is indeed 
accurate! :)  Saying where "Website name" is set might make the error msg 
more useful if that's unproblematic.  FWIW my package.conf the default one 
spat out by the create_skeleton.  I can give more stats as to my 
environment as required, not posting 'em now cos I had the whole thing 
working.  Just can't apply my new package :(


2) [documentation/idiot-proofing/functionality tweak]

Out-of-the-box do Pages > Create.  For location put something a bit silly 
like oooooohhh 'demopage'.  Add some copy, save it ("Status Object created 
properly."), view it - 404 error.  Now it can be seen in the list, but 
can't be edited cos it can't be found, so you can't remove it through the 
UI as far as I can see.  How do you delete it safely - I assume ripping out 
of the DB isn't as it would mess up some internal records of OI? (I have no 
problems using '/demopage.html' etc).

Failing that, maybe change the "Must be unique; use only letters and 
numbers, no spaces or other characters" copy by the Location: widget to be 
more all-inclusive, or surely it's possible not to create the page in the 
1st place if OI predicts it will result in a 404 (can't see why this 
shouldn't be possible).

Apart from that it looks really cool, sitting nicely between bare 
templating systems and overweight CMS's.  I've been evaluating mod_perl-y 
things like this for about a month and I'd like to settle with OI.

TIA,
jon