[rt-devel] Installation confusion with rt-1-3-49_01

[Jonas Liljegren]

Jesse <jesse at fsck.com> writes:

> > Nothing strange in the Makfile, but some of it could have been
> > configured automaticly.
>  
> like what?

Like the database server choosen in the testdep step.




> > $MasonComponentRoot : As a person new to Mason, I didn't knew where
> > this component root was located.  I later found it to be the same as
> > the "document root" for rt2. In my case, "/var/www/tools/rt2". (More
> > on that later.)  Som explanation would have helped.
> 
> 
> It's automatically configured by the makefile. you shouldn't have
> had to touch it.

Maby it was.  The makefile doen't let me do a make without an install,
so I cant test it agian.

But it didn't explicitly say that the value shouldn't be changed.  I
guess I should have known that.


> > $LocalePath : I don't know what to do here.  What is po files? How do
> > I create them?
> 
> Ignore it. it's for a unimplemented feature.

I nice feature. :-)


> > $TicketBaseURI : What is this?
>  
> it's for the linking interface. you shouldn't need to touch it. 

Ah. It's an URI. :-)


> > THE WEB UI
> > ----------
> > 
> > I choosed to make /tools/rt2 a softlink to /usr/local/rt2/WebRT/html
> 
> be careful. apache can get annoyed at softlinks

I know my Apache pretty well. It's no problem if you configured the
access rights for it.


But there was another problem!  The web user (www-data) couldn't read
the config moudule:

-r-x------    1 root     rt           9122 mar  9 15:32 config.pm


It should  be protected, since it has a password for the database.
But www-data can't read it.





> > And I inserted a .htaccess in that directory with the content:
> > 
> >     SetHandler perl-script
> >     PerlHandler RT::Mason
> 
> um. I've not played with this. if it works for you great. but it's not
> the supported setup mechanism.

It's no problem at all.  It's nice to have the configuration collected
in one place, and keep the main apache configuration clean.  And I
don't think it affects performance either.


> > I will probla have a ton of questions about the UI and functionality.
> > But as a start, I would like to know if there is any documentation.  I
> > can't figure aout the purpouse and usage of keywords.
> 
> there isn't much in the way of docs yet. they're starting to come together
> though.

I found the bug database. It helped med to understand the usage a
bit.  :-)



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