[Chameleon] Re:Installing Chameleon on Linux

[Robin Brown]

The install is now partially working but I get an error when trying to run the samples.

http://linux.unb.ca/Chameleon/samples/htdocs/

Error message:
FATAL ERROR: Session save path () doesn't exist or is not writable

Do I need to give write access somewhere?  If so where?  If not, does anyone know how to
fix this?

Thanks 

Robin



Quoting Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca>:

> Robin,
> 
> PHP can be built with its extensions as either loadable modules or 
> compiled directly into the php executable.  On windows, PHP is always 
> distributed with loadable modules, but on Linux it is normal to compile 
> extensions directly into the final executable.
> 
> Chameleon requires two modules, dbase and gd.  You can enable these when 
> building php by adding --with-dbase and --with-gd (I think ... check 
> ./configure --help).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 
> Jason Fournier wrote:
> > Robin,
> > 
> > Others with greater Linux experience may have a better idea of what's 
> > going on but I dug around a little bit and it seems that there are two 
> > files in the common directory that load php_dbase.dll exclusively (ie, 
> > no check for .so):
> > 
> > htdocs/common/mlt/create_dbf.php
> > htdocs/common/phpwms/manage_servers.php
> > 
> > I suspect the first one would be more evident in all the sample apps as 
> > it's associated with translation.  You could try placing the following 
> > code at the top of that file:
> > 
> >     if (!extension_loaded("dbase"))
> >     {
> >         if (PHP_OS == "WINNT" || PHP_OS == "WIN32")
> >         {
> >             dl("php_dbase.dll");
> >         }
> >         else
> >         {
> >             dl("php_dbase.so");
> >         }
> >     }
> > 
> > in place of:
> > 
> > if (!extension_loaded("dbase")) dl("php_dbase.dll");
> > 
> > This is untested since I am a Windows person.  If this solves the issue 
> > then please file a bug (or let the list know and I'll file a bug).
> > 
> > BTW, does phpinfo() reveal that dbase is available to you?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> > 
> > 
> > Robin Brown wrote:
> > 
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> We are trying to install Chameleon version 1.99 beta 2 on a linux 
> >> server and are having
> >> trouble getting the samples to work.
> >>
> >>
> >>> It appears when I try to run any of the chameleon samples that it is
> >>> looking for:
> >>>
> >>>  /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/php_dbase.dll
> >>>
> >>> but the only object in the directory is the php_mapscript.so shared
> >>> object.  If the .dll extension means what I think it does, then the
> >>> chameleon sample is looking for a windows type object, a dll rather
> >>> than a shared object (.so) file.  
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> does anyone know how to fix this problem?
> >>
> >> Is there anything special we need to do to get Chameleon working on 
> >> Linux?  As far as I
> >> know, all the instructions available for installation have been 
> >> followed.  Any help
> >> would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Robin
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> > 
> 
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