Re: [Openinteract-help] "No template found" error

[Ken Youens-C. <ky...@gm...>]

On Apr 15, 2005, at 7:14 AM, Chris Winters wrote:

> On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Ken Youens-Clark wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I had already checked that the "action.ini" was 
>> kosher.  I even upped the package.ini::version and installed a new 
>> package.  Still the same error.  I also tried deleting older versions 
>> of the package installed into $WEBSITE_DIR, starting/stopping.  I 
>> should mention that I'm doing all this on a Intel Celeron/Debian 
>> Woody system that I just set up expressly for testing/learning OI2.  
>> I installed Perl 5.8.6 from source and all the modules are the latest 
>> from CPAN.  I'm using the Apache/mod_perl (solo) setup.
>
> Just to be clear: did you check the action.ini in the 
> $WEBSITE_DIR/conf/book/action.ini was ok? The reason I'm emphasizing 
> this is that there are two copies: one in the website directory and 
> one in the package directory:
>
>   Website: $WEBSITE_DIR/conf/book/action.ini
>   Package: $WEBSITE_DIR/pkg/book-0.09/conf/action.ini
>
> The one in 'Package' is NOT used, the one in 'Website' is.
>
> (Sidenote: I'll create a new JIRA issue to automatically put a README 
> in the 'Package' directory with this information.)
>
> If the one in 'Website' checks out ok we've got some more 
> investigation to do.

Ah, enlightenment!  Yes, you are right.  I changed the action.ini in 
the Website dir and it works now.

>> ...
>> I would like "oi2_manage package_all" to automatically kill an 
>> existing .zip package of the same version, too.
>
> You mean delete the files in the pkg/mypackage-old-x.xx directory? 
> That's a valid option, and related to the earlier one where we delete 
> the files from a 'remove_package':
>
>   http://jira.openinteract.org/browse/OIN-158

OK, here's where I get really confused.  I set my $ENV{'OPENINTERACT2'} 
= '/usr/local/openinteract' and then used "oi2_manage" to create the 
"book" package in my "$HOME/work/oi2/book."  My understanding was that 
I would work on the package outside of the OI2 $WEBSITE_DIR (the 
"OPENINTERACT2" dir) and then use "oi2_manage package_all" to put my 
latest stuff from $HOME/work into the $WEBSITE_DIR.

What I'm seeing with this setup are a couple issues:

[1] My new stuff from $HOME/work doesn't always seem to get moved over, 
or at least not to where I think.  Maybe I'm not understanding what the 
"$WEBSITE_DIR/pkg" dir is for because I was under the (now discredited) 
assumption that "$WEBSITE_DIR/pkg/book-xx/conf/action.ini" was used and 
didn't even know about "$WEBSITE_DIR/conf/book/action.ini."  Also, I've 
read something that the libs in "$WEBSITE_DIR/pkg/book-xx/" aren't used 
but the ones in "$WEBSITE_DIR/tmplib" are.

So, what is the purpose of the "$WEBSITE_DIR/pkg/book-xx" dir?  And 
should I be working my package contents in my "/usr/local/openinteract" 
dir or my "$HOME/work" dir?  Or maybe I'm not using the right command 
("package_all") to move my working code into the $WEBSITE_DIR?  Maybe 
if you could just share your general workflow for creating OI2 apps -- 
kind of a "best practices"?

[2] Running the mod_perl_solo version runs into many permissions 
issues.  I first started out the tutorial using the "oi2_daemon" and 
had no problems because it was running under my permissions, but moving 
to Apache running as "nobody" I find that httpd can't write to many 
directories ("logs," "error," "overflow," "cache") so I run around 
chmod'ing 777, which isn't so good, eh?  Any advice?

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I'm pretty excited by OI2.  I looked at Ruby on Rails, Class::DBI, 
Maypole, Catalyst, etc., and OI2 was the first to really seem to work 
for me.  If I can just figure out how to really get rolling, I think 
this is going to save me a lot of time and make my users happy (to see 
lots of solid interfaces produced quickly).

Thanks,

ky