[sahana-maindev] problems installing Sahana on Red Hat Linux

[Brian T. <bm...@ps...>]

Hello List,

I have been working on trying to get Sahana installed on our Red Hat 
server. I have followed the instructions as closely as possible, but 
have run into some problems. I am new to Sahana in general.

Some context:

Our webserver is apache running with tomcat.

Our server did not have mysql installed, so I went and installed 
that, and it seems to be working.

I also checked to make sure we had PhP on the server, which we did.

I then first went and got the RPMs for Sahana.  I placed the RPMs in 
the  root of the web directory, and installed them, but didn't see 
any file come out into the root directory (should they have?). I then 
went and got the source tar files from source forge, and extracted 
them into the root of the web directory. According to the 
instructions provided with Sahana,  I should have been able to point 
to <root of web directory>/sahana and have the installer come up, but 
it didn't.

Looking around a little at the files that were extracted from the 
Sahana source package. I saw a www folder containing an index.php 
file. when I browsed here, I got what appeared to be the installer 
page, now at:

http://www.experimental.geovista.psu.edu/sahana/www/index.php

and saw the dependency problems

If I am interpreting this correctly, according to our PhP info page:

http://www.experimental.geovista.psu.edu/phpinfo.php

we have have the GD library (--with-gd=shared ) and the MySQL 
library('--with-mysql=shared)

so I am unclear why the Sahana installation page says we don't have 
these (of course, I could be missing something..)

Also, for the file directory permissions, are these folders relative 
to the Sahana install root? If so, I checked the folder www/tmp/ and 
the permissions are set to writable, any particular user they have to 
be writable for?

Any information/direction on how to overcome these issues would be 
appreciated, as I would like to get this moving along.

Please let me know what other information from my end you may require 
to help troubleshoot this.

Thank you for your time

Brian Tomaszewski