Re: [SQL-Ledger-users] Still Cannot install sql-ledger

[Izzy B. <iz...@ec...>]

At 10:12 AM 21/04/01, you wrote:
>Following my previous emails, here is a copy of the
>screen I receive when calling setup.html (which is a
>copy of setup.cgi). Whenever I try to click on "Add
>User" (or List Users) I get a message : "Netscape in
>unable to find the file or directory named
>/var/lib/apache/sql-ledger/admin/$script, Check the
>name and try again". When I try to call from
>Netscape's File, Open Location, sometimes it says that
>file not found and sometimes it brings me to
>"http://localhost" with the famous apache page
>announcing the success of of its installation.
>
>Thank you for your hints

That's about what I'd expect from opening a cgi script in a web browser! :)

I'm new to this as well so please forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think your 
problem is with your Apache setup.  You have to specifically tell Apache 
it's ok to run scripts outside of it's default cgi directory.  The answers 
are in the SQL-Ledger FAQ, but I too had problems understanding at 
first.  There's so many things to install and configure and if you've never 
done any of it before, it can be quite a daunting task! :(

I think your problem is with Apache, so here's what you need to do for 
it.  The first thing is to add support for running .pl files as cgi scripts 
as the first point in the FAQ suggests.  Edit your httpd.conf file (mine 
was in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf) and searched for "To use CGI scripts".  You 
should find a section like this:

# To use CGI scripts:
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

If it isn't there already, add the following as is indicated in the FAQ.

AddHandler cgi-script .pl

Next I'd skip to the bottom of the FAQ to the section on security and 
follow all these steps.  Don't make the mistake I did and assume that 
Apache is running as the default user nobody.nogroup.  I found out mine was 
running as wwwrun.nogroup  which is the default configuration under 
SuSE.  If you search your httpd.conf file for "User/Group", you should find 
entries like this

User wwwrun
Group nogroup

Change step 2 in the FAQ to match these settings.  Of course you will also 
want to change the path in all these steps to match where you've put the 
sql-Ledger directory.

For step 4, I'd just copy the lines as he has them there (with adjustments 
to the sql-ledger path if needed) and place them in the httpd.conf 
file.  If you search for "<Directory" you'll find the section where you 
want to put them. Just move to the bottom of the last entry (they end with 
</Directory>) and past it all there.  Make sure the path is correct for 
where you put sql-ledger.

I didn't understand step 5, and step 6 you can probably skip.

Hope this helps.

...Izzy