[ome-devel] web client logged out prematurely

[Harry Hochheiser]

I've been running Postgres 7.4 on OS X for many moons now, without any 
trouble. I have to agree - it's probably Apache.

-harry

On Feb 16, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Ilya Goldberg wrote:

> One of the reasons you probably had problems is that this seems to be 
> a non-stock OS X system (Apache 2).
> The installer pretty much assumes you have a more or less stock system 
> and followed the installation instructions on our web-site pertaining 
> to your OS.  It tries to make some allowances, but its pretty hard to 
> take account of all the possible things that can happen to a unix 
> system (it tries to be smart, but its really still kind of dumb all in 
> all).  I'm sorry it caused you frustration.
>
> I've never run Postgres 7.4 on OS X, so I don't know if this is 
> causing you problems.  The install instructions for OS X refer to a 
> 7.2.2 package we use for this OS.  Our Fedora systems use 7.3.4-RH, 
> and that works well.  We've had trouble with certain versions of 
> Postgres in the past, but that is not to say that your version is the 
> problem (I don't know).  The more likely cause of your trouble is 
> Apache 2.  Apache 2/mod_perl is not considered a "stable" 
> configuration by its own developers, and there are certain things that 
> we do that can lead to problems (though not of the type you've 
> specified).  Red-Hat seems to be the only Apache2/mod_perl 
> distribution that fixes some bugs that OME exposes.  We run Apache 
> 2/mod_perl on Red-Hat/Fedora, but really no where else.
>
> Unfortunately, to trouble-shoot this we'll have to figure out what 
> exactly you did to your system to make it work as far as you did.  
> This isn't a known bug or previously observed behavior.
> Once you've done an install, there will be log files in 
> /var/tmp/OME/install.  Getting the outputs of those would be a start.
> Probably need to take a look at your Apache confs too.  Are you sure 
> you only have one Apache installed on your system right now?  Sorry to 
> ask, but I've done this myself a few times.  We should probably write 
> a big disclaimer on our documentation not to mess around with the 
> Apache that comes with the OS.  This almost always leads to a world of 
> trouble.
>
> -Ilya
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Nico Stuurman wrote:
>
>> Installed OME from cvs (b.t.w., big nightmare, if there is interest 
>> in a frustration list I can type some up).  Both the web and Java 
>> client can log in, but seem to be logged out again after a few 
>> interactions with the server.  With logged out I mean that the login 
>> window is served up again.  This happens after at most three 
>> interactions with the client.
>>
>> The system is a current Mac OS X, postgres 7.4., apache 2, perl 
>> v5.8.1-RC3.  OME cvs updated just now, installer run after update.
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> best,
>>
>>
>> Nico
>>
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