[las_users] RHEL3 and LAS6.5

[Christopher.Moore@xxxxxxxx]

I'm trying to do a vanilla LAS install on a RedHat EL3 machine.  I get it 
installed and running, but stumble at the finish line.  Can anyone see what 
might have happened?  Here were my steps:

installed apache from rh disks, started it through the init script as root
installed mysqld from rh disks, started it through the init script as root
upgraded to ferret5.81, removing the old ferret installation, tested, runs fine
checked for perl (ver 5.5 from rh disks)
checked for expat (ver 1.95-5 from rh disks)
checked for java (ver 1.4.02 from Sun), tested, works, use it all the time
checked for netcdf (ver 3.5.1 from unidata), tested, works, use it all the time
checked for ant (ver 1.5.2.23 from rh disks), test, works

unzipped las_6_5...
cd las
./configure
(missing some perl modules, installed most from rh disks & CPAN, perl-netcdf 
from an rpm built for rhel3 from god-knows-where)

modified various file permissions as instructed
modified /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf as instructed, restarted as root

./startserver.sh

I go to our url, and I see the default data sets (coads, levitus).

I choose "COADS", select "Air Temperature", and click "Next", and get a 
ServletException.  From the TOMCAT logs:


anagram: started ok
Jul 19, 2005 2:53:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Jul 19, 2005 2:53:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/jsp-examples] startup failed due to previous errors
Jul 19, 2005 2:53:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Jul 19, 2005 2:53:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/servlets-examples] startup failed due to previous errors
Jul 19, 2005 2:53:48 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Jul 19, 2005 2:53:48 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8008
Jul 19, 2005 2:53:48 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/116  config=null
Jul 19, 2005 2:53:48 PM org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
Jul 19, 2005 2:53:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 3981 ms
javax.servlet.ServletException: Can't create cache file!
        at gov.noaa.pmel.tmap.FormFilter.doFilter(FormFilter.java:103)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)





what cache file?  $lasroot/server/output was chgrp apache and chmod g+w


Where should I start with this?

Cheers,
Chris



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Christopher Moore                email: Christopher.Moore@noaa.gov
Research Scientist, Oceanography                 tel: 206.526.6779
University of Washington/JISAO/NOAA-PMEL         fax: 206.526.6744
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