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

[Jesse]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:44:58PM +0100, Jonas Liljegren wrote:
> Jesse <jesse at fsck.com> writes:
 
> Like the database server choosen in the testdep step.
 
make testdeps and make fixdeps now exist in the makefile. thanks.
and the readme even now tells you to use them ;)

 
> > > $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.

make upgrade

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

I've added comments to this effect to config.pm. thanks.

> > > $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. :-)

Indeed. It's definitely something I want to get to, but wasn't something 
that I was able to get to for 2.0.

> > > $TicketBaseURI : What is this?
> >  
> > it's for the linking interface. you shouldn't need to touch it. 
> 
> Ah. It's an URI. :-)

Yep.

> 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:
> It should  be protected, since it has a password for the database.
> But www-data can't read it.
> 
 
*nod* That's one of the things you'll win with when you put the config
in your main apache httpd.conf. As you're starting apache as root, you
won't have to worry about it.

 
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