[FGS] Installation Problem

[Jeff McKenna]

chris carleton wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm new to Ubuntu Server and webhosting in general. I've used Ubuntu 
> desktop for a while though. I was trying to install FGS using the sh on 
> the website, but encountered a problem with the Apache 
> Installation/configure. Everything was installing fine and then the 
> following...
> 
> 
> ************************************************************************
> general options:
>   --quiet | -q      don't give process information to stdout
>   --force-badname   allow usernames which do not match the
>                     NAME_REGEX[_SYSTEM] configuration variable
>   --help | -h       usage message
>   --version | -v    version number and copyright
>   --conf | -c FILE  use FILE as configuration file
> 
> ! Cannot create user 'apache', could not start apache as root.
> 
> ************************************************************************
> 
> To start installed FGS's daemon at boot time, do (as root) :
> 
> $ echo "su root -c \"( . /opt/fgs/setenv.sh ; fgs start )\"" >> 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> 
> ************************************************************************
> 
> Before using the FGS environment, you need to set some
> environment variables (each time you login) :
> 
> $ cd /opt/fgs
> $ . setenv.sh
> 
> OR you can do it automatically each time you log in by doing :
> 
> echo ". /opt/fgs/setenv.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
> 
> ************************************************************************
> 
> I can't figure out where Apache is and I can't start/stop the service so 
> I can't check to see if the rest installed because when I do:
> 
> sudo w3m http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv/
> 
> I get the following error;
> 
> w3m: Can't load http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv/.
> 
> I'm assuming that it means I don't have Apache2 running on the system so 
> something went wrong with the install. Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Chris
> 

There will be other people on this list that are more geek savvy than 
me, but in my experience the best way to install FGS is to run the 
installer as a regular user (not as root) in that user's home directory. 
    Give that a try.

-jeff


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