[Gmod-help] Re: [Gmod-gbrowse] gbrowse installation question

[Wes Barris]

Dave Clements, GMOD Help Desk wrote:
> Hi Damian,
> 
> I don't have a solution to these issues, but I do have some pointers 
> that will hopefully lead to some discussion.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:06 AM, damian kao <damian.kao at gmail.com 
> <mailto:damian.kao at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I successfully installed gbrowse 1.99 on the SELinux server that I
>     am currently using. I was trying to upgrade it to the current 2.01
>     version today.
> 
>     I removed 1.99 by deleting my config files from
>     /etc/httpd/conf/gbrowse.conf, deleting the html files from
>     /var/www/html/gbrowse, and deleting the cgi files from /var/www/cgi/
> 
>     Then I downloaded the newest version (2.01) source and ran:
>     perl Makefile.PL HTDOCS=/var/www/html CONF=/etc/httpd/conf
>     CGIBIN=/var/www/cgi-bin

There appears to be some conflicting documentation.  Perhaps "perl
Makefile.PL" works but I've always used "perl Build.PL" with
gbrowse2.

>     I was able to ./Build test and ./Build install successfully with no
>     errors.

Can you mix "Build" commands with "Makefile.PL"?  I would stick with
one system, preferably "Build".

>     -I read through the installation wiki and it said "Note that the
>     configuration files are always placed in a subdirectory named
>     gbrowse.conf. You cannot change this. Similarly, the static files
>     are placed in a directory named gbrowse." The installation script
>     did NOT create a gbrows.conf folder in my conf folder and it did NOT
>     create a gbrowse folder in my html folder. I've tried manually
>     creating both folders, but it did not fix the problem. I assume
>     version 2.01 doesn't create these folders.

Those sound like gbrowse1.7 instructions.

>     -The first 2 chcon commands in the installation worked, but the last
>     two gave me error message saying the specified folder was not found.
>     Since 1.99 worked fine, I assumed the permissions were already all
>     setup correctly.
> 
>  
> It's possible this is the same problem reported by Wes Barris on 
> 2010/01/10 - see 
> http://old.nabble.com/Gbrowse2-chcon-install-errors-td27105707.html. 
>  Are you running SELinux?

Yes, I believe that the gbrowse2 installation method has some problems
with respect to SELinux and different implementations of it (Redhat
vs Fedora).

What are the chcon errors that you got?  What operating system are
you running?  I'm guessing that your chcon errors were that the
context httpd_sys_content_rw_t does not exist.  Is that right?

> Sorry I can't be more help,
> 
> Dave C.
>  
> 
>     What else could be wrong?
> 
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