[rt-users] I am confused

[John Schubert]

I hope you get more responses than I did, when I asked
similar questions about RH 8.0.

I spent 2 or 3 weeks trying to make RH 8 regress to
mod_perl1 and Apache1.  I've been a Sun sys admin for 5
years or so, and have a good understanding of installing
packages and configuring Unix boxes.  

However, with RedHat 8, it was not as simple as just
removing Apache and mod_perl and then compiling from new
source.  It should be, but it wasn't.

If someone can send you step by step, go for it.
 Otherwise, as a person who just spent 6 weeks slugging
away with RH8, I recommend regressing to RH 7.3.  A very
kind soul forwarded this procedure to me (I uploaded it and
make it available, however I won't attach it since this
email goes to hundreds of people)
http://schube.com/upload/RT+RedHat+Installation.doc

I haven't doctored it yet, however, I changed all
references to RT2 to RT3.  Apache shows compiling from
/tmp, however if you followed earlier steps, its in
/usr/src (so compile from whereever you actually put the
source). I believe the Apache step also skips the make
install.  Finally, when you get to the configuration, I
used the RT documentation in combination with their
suggestions.

I had it working in one day (after figuring out the CPAN
module DBD::MySQL needed a third RPM, MySQL development,
installed in addition to Client and Server RPMs), although
I need to go back and make sendmail work.  I am very weak
in sendmail skills (a good excuse to go get the O'Reilly
book).

Good luck. 
John

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 04:26:45 +0000
 "nemir nemiria" <nemir at hotmail.com> wrote:
> It might be that I am not confused,  but instead am
> dense.   I hope that won't put you off giving me some
> advice.  Or a pointer to a RedHat how to...?
> 
> I have read the documents on how to install several times
> through.  I have read the recommendations as to what
> versions of what applications I should install.   I think
> this is the first part of my falling down.  I am wanting
> to install this on a RedHat 9.0 server.   The RedHat folk
> strongly suggest that I use RPMs for everything possible.
>  They install by default Apache 2.0 and Perl_Mod 1.99 (or
> something like that.)
> 
> The install docs say that I should by preference use
> apache 1.3 and perl_doc 1.?   Should I remove these RPMS
> and get old RPMs of these applications ?   Can it work
> with the out of the box RH9 installation?  Are there any
> dire implications for anything else by doing that stuff?
> 
> Would anyone have RPMs that make this easy?    Would
> people be interested if I made some?  (I have done it
> once, and am interested enough to do it again.   Learning
> Curve!)
> 
> 
> anyways,   I guess some feedback from someone who's set
> up an RT server on RH9 would be very appreciated here.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> nemir