Re: LAS 6.0 Installation

[Steve Cousins <cousins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Joe Sirott wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Joe M. hit the nail on the head here. The only thing I would add is that it 
> turns out not to be a MySQL configuration problem, but a problem with the 
> default RedHat Linux configuration. If you look in the default RedHat 
> /etc/hosts file, you will see a line like this:
> 
> 127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain localhost
> 
> If you replace it with:
> 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain


Since later on in the configure script it does correctly get your fully
qualified hostname, would it not be better for the script to use this as
the default for the MySQL configuration too?

 
> then the configuration should work. Or, alternatively, configure LAS (as 
> Joe M. mentioned) by using the hostname and domain of the machine running 
> the MySQL server.
> 
> At 10:10 AM 11/13/2002 -0800, Joe McLean wrote:
> >Hi Steve,
> >comments below.
> >
> >Steve Cousins wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to set up LAS 6.0 on a Redhat Linux 7.3 system.  I have
> > > installed everything and the Tomcat server is running, however, using
> > > Netscape 4.75 when I go
> > > to:
> > >         rocky.umeoce.maine.edu:8080/las6/servlets/dataset
> > >
> > > as the documentation states, I get a message box that comes up and says:
> > >
> > >         "The document contained no data. Try again later, or contact the
> > > server's administrator."
> > >
> > > If I try it in Internet Explorer I just get a blank page.
> > >
> > > If I go to:
> > >
> > >         rocky.umeoce.maine.edu:8080
> > >
> > > I get the sample Tomcat home page.
> > >
> > > I am just trying to get LAS 6.0 to work with the included sample data sets
> > > right now.  I ran make in the server directory and everything went well:
> > >
> > >         [root@rocky server]# make
> > >         ../xml/perl/genLas.pl las.xml
> > >         DB host: []
> > >         DB login name: [root]
> > >         DB password: []
> > >         Serializing file:/usr2/local/src/las6/server/las.xml to database
> > >         Building indexes...
> > >         Resolving links...
> > >         Using default catalog...
> > >         Generating dataset COADS Climatology
> > >         Generating dataset Levitus Climatology
> > >
> > > Any ideas on what could be wrong or where to look?
> > >
> >
> >I ran across a similar problem, and was informed that MySQL was configured so
> >that host "localhost" and user "root" would not work together.  Instead, when
> >I ran configure, I used the name of the computer as host.  I'm sorry I don't
> >know enough to explain the details of MySQL, but try running configure again
> >using  "rocky.umeoce.maine.edu" as MySQL host and see if that works.
> >
> > >
> > > One thing I don't understand is the interplay (if any) between the regular
> > > Apache web server and the Tomcat server.  During the configuration process
> > > it asked if it should check for a web server and it found apache running
> > > and said "good".  It then gave me the two lines to add to the httpd.conf
> > > file for that web server.  Does LAS 6.0 even use this web server?  If so,
> > > how?
> > >
> >
> >LAS v6 does use both the Apache and Tomcat servers, the latter being used
> >specifically as the Java Servlet container.  As far as the details go, I know
> >as much about this as I do MySQL, someone else please take over.
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Steve
> > > _____________________________________________________________
> > >  Steve Cousins                 Email: cousins@umit.maine.edu
> > >  Research Associate            Phone: (207) 581-4302
> > >  Ocean Modeling Group
> > >  School of Marine Sciences     208 Libby Hall
> > >  University of Maine           Orono, Maine 04469
> >
> >Joe McLean
> 
>