[ome-users] Installing OME error: denied permission to change working directory to /OME/OMEIS

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Sriram and Dani,

Unfortunately, I am not sure why you are seeing such an error message. Try
checking the user permissions on /OME/OMEIS. I believe it is supposed to
match the Apache user (maybe "httpd" depending on your system). The error
message indicates that for some reason the Apache user is unable to access
the OMEIS directory, though. You may need to "sudo chown -R httpd
/OME/OMEIS" or some such.

Sriram, in your case, the fact that you installed Apache manually instead of
using a package manager makes the OME installer's job more difficult. If you
could install Apache using your distribution's official package manager
instead, it might work better.

Alternately, you guys could try the OMERO server, which is currently under
active development and better supported than the legacy OME server.

-Curtis

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Nandakumar, Sriramkumar <
sriramkumar at uky.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am also unable to proceed further beyond this.
> It could be really helpful if any one can assist in resolving this problem.
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Sriram.
> ________________________________________
> From: Dani Díaz de Quijano [daniquijano at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:41 AM
> To: Nandakumar, Sriramkumar
> Cc: Curtis Rueden; OME-users mailing list
> Subject: Installing OME error: denied permission to change working
> directory to /OME/OMEIS
>
> Dear all,
>
> This is Dani Diaz de Quijano from the University of Barcelona.
>
> I think that I am having the same problem as Sriram. Just eval number
> changes. Here I paste the error (see the end of the paragraph):
>
>
> Apache httpd.conf does not have an Include directive for
> "/OME/conf/httpd.ome.conf"
>
> The Apache conf file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) must be configured
> correctly in order to serve OME via mod_perl.
>
> The OME installer can fix /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for you automatically.
>
> If you chose not to fix it automatically, the installer will perform a test
> of the current configuration and exit if it fails.
>
> fix "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" automatically? [y/n]: y
>
> fixing httpd.conf. The current version will be saved in
> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.bak.ome
>
> httpd.conf fixed successfully
>
> [Tue Oct 28 11:00:56 2008] [warn] The ScriptAlias directive in
> /OME/conf/httpd1.99.omeis.conf at line 2 will probably never match because
> it overlaps an earlier ScriptAlias.
>
> httpd not running, trying to start
>
> httpd not running, trying to start
>
> Testing Apache configuration
>
> \__ mod_perl [SUCCESS].
>
> \__ omeis [FAILURE].
>
> Errors executing task: OMEIS could not be reached.
>
> Incorrect response from OMEIS at http://localhost/cgi-bin/omeis:
>
> Error calling Initialization: Could not change working directory to
> /OME/OMEIS: Permission denied
>
> System Error: Permission denied
>
> See /var/tmp/OME/install/ApacheConfigTask.log for more details. at (eval
> 210) line 1
>
> at install.pl line 82
>
> main::run_tasks() called at install.pl line 266
>
>
> And the ApacheConfigTask.log declares:
>
> Writing script to /OME/perl2/mod_perl_test.pl
> Getting response from http://localhost/perl2/mod_perl_test.pl
> Checking response from http://localhost/perl2/mod_perl_test.pl
> Parsing response from http://localhost/perl2/mod_perl_test.pl
> mod_perl is configured correctly
> Testing omeis installation
> Getting an OME::Util::cURL user agent
> Getting response from http://localhost/cgi-bin/omeis
> Parsing response from http://localhost/cgi-bin/omeis
> OMEIS could not be reached.
> Incorrect response from OMEIS at http://localhost/cgi-bin/omeis:
> Error calling Initialization: Could not change working directory to
> /OME/OMEIS: Permission denied
> System Error: Permission denied
>
>
>
>
>
> Could, please, anyone help me? Thank you very much
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Dani Diaz de Quijano i Barbero
>
>
> 2008/10/21 Nandakumar, Sriramkumar <sriramkumar at uky.edu<mailto:
> sriramkumar at uky.edu>>
> Hi Curtis,
> The mod_perl problem was resolved. In the httpd conf file, I have included
> this line LoadModule perl_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_perl.so.
> But now I am getting problem in OMEIS module.
> Please find the errors below,
>
> Testing Apache configuration
>  \__ mod_perl [SUCCESS].
>  \__ omeis [FAILURE].
>
>
> Errors executing task: OMEIS could not be reached.
> Incorrect response from OMEIS at http://localhost/cgi-bin/omeis:
> Error calling Initialization: Could not change working directory to
> /OME/OMEIS: Permission denied
> System Error: Permission denied
>
> See /var/tmp/OME/install/ApacheConfigTask.log for more details. at (eval
> 192) line 1
>
>  at install.pl line 82
>       main::run_tasks() called at install.pl line 266
>
> Could you please help me to resolve this problem?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Sriram.
>
>
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