[ome-users] ApacheConfigTask.pm from CVS

[Valentin Dimitrov]

Hi Ilya, Hi Tom,

Thank you for your reply. I am on holiday for tow weeks and will
reply on my return.

Cheers
Valentin










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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Ilya Goldberg wrote:

> Hi Valentin
> This is due to our cleverness being overcome by the cleverness of the Debian 
> Apache maintainers.
> The installer is trying to locate your httpd.conf file so that it can patch 
> it with an <Include> directive pointing to our conf file.
>
> The way it tries to find httpd.conf is by looking through the output of httpd 
> -V.  What's the output of this command on your system:
> /usr/sbin/apache2 -V
>
> Its actually slightly faulty logic the way we do it - if the 
> SERVER_CONFIG_FILE is an absolute path, then we don't really need the 
> HTTPD_ROOT, but we die anyway if we can't find it.
> If you send back the output of the above command, we will institute better 
> and stronger cleverness so that we are not so easily fooled by the horde of 
> overactive apache maintainers.
>
> Thanks
> Ilya
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 26, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Valentin Dimitrov wrote:
>
>> 
>> Hola Tom,
>> 
>> Thanks  for your eMail! I've  just passed the Matlab instalation
>> (mex wasn't in the $PATH ) and went to the next problem: 
>> "ApacheConfigTask.pm" .
>> 
>> ################
>> Errors executing task: Unable to find httpd root at (eval 160) line 1
>> 
>>         main::run_tasks() called at install.pl line 249
>> 
>> ################  ApacheConfigTask.log
>> Apache setup
>> Apache binary: /usr/sbin/apache2
>> apachectl binary: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl
>> Unable to find httpd root
>> 
>> ################
>> 
>> apache2 on my Debian has a defferent tree structure:
>> 
>> leibniz:/etc/apache2# tree
>> .
>> |-- README
>> |-- apache2.conf
>> |-- apache2.conf.bkup.beforeOME
>> |-- conf.d
>> |   `-- apache2-doc
>> |-- envvars
>> |-- httpd.conf
>> |-- httpd.conf.bkup
>> |-- magic
>> |-- mods-available
>> |  	|-- actions.load
>> |   	|-- apreq.load
>> |	.
>> |	.
>> |-- mods-enabled
>> |   |-- auth_kerb.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/auth_kerb.load
>> |   |-- auth_pam.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/auth_pam.load
>> |	.
>> |-- ports.conf
>> |-- sites-available
>> |   |-- default
>> |   `-- default~
>> |-- sites-enabled
>> |   `-- 000-default -> /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
>> `-- ssl
>> 
>> #######################
>> 
>> Is this a problem for the new ApacheConfigTask.pm file ?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Valentin
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, T. J. Macura wrote:
>> 
>>> Valentin,
>>> 
>>>> I have installed the student version of MATLAB which doesn't have  mex
>>>> or the install script could't find it.
>>> My mex is installed on /Applications/MATLAB701/bin/mex
>>> Look for it under /bin/mex in your MATLAB installation root.
>>> 
>>>> I decided then to install Octave just to have "mex", but obviously was 
>>>> the wrong thing to do :-(
>>> Yeah. Not good. I am actually very happy that the install failed for you 
>>> in such an obvious way. If the failure was more subtle, I don't know what 
>>> I would do. I could never for the life of me guess that somebody might 
>>> want to install Octave just for mex.
>>> 
>>> I never tried to get OME working with the MATLAB student license. That's 
>>> something I actually would like to look into -- just too busy at the 
>>> moment. I don't know whether the student version includes mex or not. 
>>> Probably, because mex is just a shell script. But you need to find out. 
>>> Without a mex, OME/MATLAB stuff cannot be compiled and installed. Look in 
>>> the directory I suggested, I think your paths might be incomplete.
>>> 
>>> Tom
>>> 
>>> 
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