RE: Re[2]: [cobalt-users] [Webmin] was Are Raq's here to stay? (opinionswanted)

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 	Biggest problems have been with various cgi scripts, from cgiemail
> to bbs scripts. Problems with these are cgiwrap errors and permission
> errors. Zope is another. I was able to install Zope on the RAQ, but not
> without bigtime research on how to do it. It doesn't install like
> one would
> expect. PHP is another example. I still haven't gotten it to work on the
> RAQ, although it appears to be installed. For the software I have
> installed,
> I haven't found one example where the install instructions worked
> on a Raq.
> Note that I am talking about maybe 10 programs, not 100. As I have said, I
> am no expert, but I can follow instructions and usually figure out why
> something doesn't work. Maybe I really am an idiot. Who knows.
>

For PHP I've seen numerous posts about how to install it and MySQL. IIRC,
Steve Werby who posts here often has installed PHP on the RaQ2, 3 & 4 with
no problems.

Zope: http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-August/049386.html
for RaQ3.

CGIWrap: http://users.iol.it/hpstr/ has great information.

Probably 90% of the script problems I've seen posted to this list involved
attempts to install a script in a user directory while logged in as admin
and not siteadmin so permissions are wrong. Or, the script sets permissions
wrong on an install package and needs to be CHOWN username for the site. Or,
wrong paths. I've found some strange occurrences where a script installed in
one virtual site works with paths set to /web/cgi-bin and the identical
script installed in another virtual site, after simply doing a find and
replace to change site# and domain.com then needs to be set
/home/sites/site#/web/cgi-bin. It may have something to do with one site
being the first virtual site for an IP, but I haven't bothered to
troubleshoot beyond changing the path to get it to work.

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Dan Kriwitsky