Re: [Sandweb-users] Installation problems

[Bryce H. <br...@os...>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Rob Helmer wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:51:59AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > sandweb was unable to find its config files.  It was looking in ../etc
> > instead of ../etc/sandweb.  Furthermore, relative paths did not seem to
> > work properly at all.  I changed all instances of '../etc' to
> > '/usr/local/etc/sandweb'.
>
> You are using RC2 right? Which OS/distribution?

RC2 and CVS/HEAD, on Mandrake 9.0.

Here's my apache info:

            Apache Server Status for sherborne.bryceharrington.com

   Server    Version:    Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.26
   (Mandrake
   Linux/5mdk)   mod_perl/1.27  mod_ssl/2.8.10  OpenSSL/0.9.6g
   DAV/1.0.3
   PHP/4.2.3
   Server Built: Sep 6 2002 19:31:19
     _________________________________________________________________

Here's Konqueror:

[root@sherborne sandweb]# konqueror --version
Qt: 3.0.5
KDE: 3.0.5a
Konqueror: 3.0.5a

Netscape:

[root@sherborne sandweb]# netscape --version
Netscape Lite 4.77/U.S., 26-Mar-01; (c) 1995-2000 Netscape
Communications Corp.

And Mozilla:

[root@sherborne sandweb]# mozilla --version
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
<developer build>

> "make install" is supposed to do this.. Can you send us your
> installation steps? If that's not happening you probably are
> going to run into lots of other problems.
>
> Also, Nick checked in some stuff the other day to help with
> the warnings and problems people say with perl 5.8, try pulling
> CVS ( do "cvs co -r release-1_0-branch", the trunk has some
> incomplete stuff right now ).

Okay, checking out that rtag and trying again...

Same thing; perl Makefile.PL; make; sudo make install works ok, then:

[root@sherborne sandweb]# sandweb-admin --add-user bryce
unable to open config file: ../etc/sandweb.cfg
return data: <pre>$VAR1 = {
          'errlev' => 0,
          'data' => {}
        };
</pre>[root@sherborne sandweb]#

> > After having gone through all that, I was finally able to select the
> > repository and request checkout of the module 'foo' I needed.  However,
> > it simply errored saying something about "Filename foo could not be
> > found".
>
> Can you give us the exact text? Did it say "module" or "filename"?
> I'm trying to determine if this is from SandWeb or from CVS; if it's
> from CVS then it's the wrong module name or something.

It specifically said filename, which I thought was strange.
I may have the wrong password but I know it's definitely the right
modulename.

Along these lines, does sandweb support :ext cvs type?

> > All that I really need is to connect this to a single cvs repository,
> > and the number of users is going to be determinant, so if I could just
> > write the config files manually to set up the repository and users, that
> > would help.
>
> Sure, they are just XML files, stored in $users_dir/user/.user.cfg

Could you give me examples of proper user and repository config files?
I was trying to reverse engineer what they should look like from the
code, but it was difficult since I wasn't certain the software was
working correctly.

> > What I'm trying to determine is if it is possible to edit text files
> > through this interface and have them automatically get checked back into
> > cvs.  I see that there is an edit_file.html template, and am curious to
> > see how this works.
>
> Well, edit_file just uses an HTML textarea to edit the contents of
> the file, but it's disabled ( should work if you just reenable it ).
> The problem is that both Moz and IE use DOS-style EOL characters
> everywhere, and it removes empty lines from the bottom of the file ( it
> it exists ).
> The thing I don't like about this is, if I check a file in with Unix,
> then go and modify one line with SandWeb, a "diff" shows that I modified
> every line ( because the EOL char is different ).

I've dealt with this particular problem before, when developing wiki
software, so if I can get SandWeb working, that issue won't be a
stopper.  ;-)

> Uploading files just works better.

*Nod*  But the use context I'm shooting for is to mimic wiki behavior.
In fact, I'm probably going to attempt to leverage the Text::WikiFormat,
Cgi::Wiki, and other assorted modules for this.  But I need to hook it
into a CVS-backend.

> Also, right now there's no automatic checkin, because SandWeb isn't
> really a CM system so much as a CVS client.

Do you know of any CM systems that include a CVS backend?

Bryce