Re: [las_users] RHEL3 and LAS6.5

[Christopher.Moore@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Ben/LAS Users,

I got LAS 6.5.1.2 going on Red Hat Enterprise 3.  Ben asked for versions for 
supporting software I used.  Also note that I found the server started but 
failed to give the constraints page because of a missing subdirectory "temp" 
under "las/las_servlet/jakarta" (see below).  Here's my set-up:

Java: j2sdk1.4.2_03 (from sun)
perl: 5.8.0 (installed with rhel3 disks)
netcdf: 3.5.1 (from unidata)
Ferret: 5.81
Mysql: mysql-3.23.58-15.RHEL3.1.rpm and mysql-server-3.23.58-16.RHEL3.1.rpm
       (both from rhel3 disks)
apache: httpd-2.0.46-38.end.i386.rpm and
        redhat-config-httpd-1.1.0-4.noarch.rpm (both from rhel3 disks)
expat: expat-1.95.5-6.rpm and expat-devel-1.95.5-6.rpm (both from rhel3 disks)

There were lots of perl rpms installed with the red hat installation, but I 
needed these extras, all from the rhel3 disks except when noted):

perl-CGI-2.81-88.7.i386.rpm
perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm
perl-DBI-1.32-5.i386.rpm
perl-Time-HiRes-1.38-3.i386.rpm
perl-netcdf-perl-1.2.3-x3jpl.i386.rpm (I think I got this from 
http://home.badc.rl.ac.uk/iwi/netcdf-perl)

giving an "rpm -qa | grep perl" gives an impressive:

perl-Filter-1.29-3
perl-XML-Parser-2.31-15
perl-Parse-Yapp-1.05-30
perl-libwww-perl-5.65-6
perl-DateManip-5.42a-0.rhel3
perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-17
perl-XML-Grove-0.46alpha-25
perl-CPAN-1.61-89.10
perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3
perl-URI-1.21-7
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-28
perl-XML-Encoding-1.01-23
perl-libxml-enno-1.02-29
perl-5.8.0-89.10
perl-libxml-perl-0.07-28
perl-XML-Dumper-0.4-25
perl-DBI-1.32-9
perl-XML-Twig-3.09-3
perl-Time-HiRes-1.38-3
ImageMagick-perl-5.5.6-15
perl-netcdf-perl-1.2.3-x3jpl
perl-CGI-2.81-89.10

The steps I used to install LAS follow the instructions fairly closely:

- installed and tested java
- installed and tested netcdf
- installed and tested ferret
- started httpd and mysqld through init scripts as root.  tested apache 
by loading root page (didn't secure it!)
- went to the root page location (/var/www/html) and (as root) created
a directory for las (named FOCI, for our group) and made it owned by me
as a user (chown cmoore:users FOCI)
- AS USER (not root, but as cmoore) I copied the tarball to /var/www/html/FOCI, expanded 
it "gzip -d < las_6_5_1_2.tar.gz | tar xvf -"
- set up my ferret environment variables: "source /usr/local/ferret_paths"
- "cd las"
- "./configure"

I used default values for pretty much everything, but the configure script 
failed when trying to verify apache, so I said "no" to that

- changed apache configuration as advised in configure script (in 
CONFIG_INSTRUCTIONS.txt after running configure)
- started Tomcat "./startserver.sh"

NOTE THAT THIS FAILED TO WORK because of a missing subdirectory...

- created "temp" subdirectory under "las/las_servlet/jakarta"
- restarted Tomcat "./stopserver.sh" then "./startserver.sh"

And all was well.

Good luck,
Chris

__________________________________________________________________
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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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Ben Burford wrote:

> Hello Chris,
>
> I searched the archives an found your email to the LAS users group in July.
> I want to install LAS 6.5 on Red Hat Linux AS 3.0.  I had some problems wit
> h software versions in installation of LAS 6.3 on Red Hat 7.2 a year ago.  I
> was hoping you could tell me what versions of support software you used for
> a successful installation:
> JAVA (j2sdk?)
> perl
> netcdf
> Mysql
> Ferret
> other?
>
> I especially would like to hear what version of Mysql was installed and what
> all needed to be installed.  This is the area where I had problems installi
> ng LAS 6.3 about a year ago:
> MySQL
> MySQL-client
> MySQL-devel (?)
> DBD-mysql (?)
> DBI (?)
> other?
>
> Much thanks for any help you can give,
>
> Ben Burford
>
>
>
> At 15:48 2005/07/20 -0700, you wrote:
> > 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-netc
> df
> > 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(Applicati
> onFilterChain.java:202)
> > what cache file?  $lasroot/server/output was chgrp apache and chmod g+w
> >
> >
> > Where should I start with this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> > __________________________________________________________________
> > Christopher Moore                email: Christopher.Moore@noaa.gov
> > Research Scientist, Oceanography                 tel: 206.526.6779
> > University of Washington/JISAO/NOAA-PMEL         fax: 206.526.6744
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------