[maplab-users] maplab-2.2 install

[Zak James]

Hi Roman,

 > a) What directory would you recommend to install maplab? I guess this
 > would means to add an Alias in httpd.conf if not under /var/www or
 > /public_html

It's up to you. Maplab will work without an alias. The only requirement 
is that the directory be accessible to your web server.

 > b) It's OK to install maplab as root?

I don't think it's a good idea.

This isn't directly related to your question, but it's important to 
note that we expect you to use some means to secure the application 
from unauthorized use (like htaccess or other web server restrictions). 
Maplab is not designed to be on a public web server and should never be 
installed that way.

 > c) Do I need to give execution permissions for all .phtml files 
really?.
 > I wonder why these come without it.

No. If that's a requirement to get your php installation to process the 
files, you need to look at your httpd.conf file and fix your php 
configuration. http://php.net will have information on this.

 > d) May be SuEXEC is involved? I guess yes because apache can execute
 > .phtml files even if they have only user execution permission. But I
 > have not any VirtualHost directive... (I think)

That shouldn't be necessary.

Is your php installation from a package manager or did you compile it 
yourself?

zak

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Zak James
Applications and Software Development
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:44:44 +0100, tatel at euskalnet.net 
<tatel at euskalnet.net> wrote:
 > Hi list,
 >
 > This is my first post. I'm trying to install maplab-2.2 on a Debian
 > Woody box. I tried twice, following INSTALL-LINUX.TXT, but I'm getting
 > "Internal server errors". It seems that .phtml files need execution
 > perms? After doing find . -name '*.phtml' -exec chmod u+x {} \; these
 > internal errors are missing... but maybe there is a mistake somewhere 
on
 > my install.
 >
 > 1) untarred maplab-2.2.tar.gz on /~my/public_html as normal user (me)
 > 2) cd /~my/public_html/maplab2.2
 > 3) su
 > 4) chown -R me.www-data data  (www-data is apache user, of course)
 > 5) chown me.www-data projects
 > 6) cd config
 > 7) chown me.www-data maplab.xml mapbrowse.xml mapedit.xml 
gmapfactory.xml
 > 8)exit
 > 9) chmod -R g+w ../data
 > 10) chmod g+w ../projects
 > 11) chmod g+w maplab.xml mapbrowse.xml mapedit.xml gmapfactory.xml
 >
 > 12) Pointing web browser to
 > http://localhost/~me/maplab2.2/maplab/htdocs/ gives me a 404 error
 > because a) it's no maplab2.2 but maplab-2.2 and b) directory /maplab/
 > does not exist.
 >
 > 13) Pointing web browser to http://localhost/~me/maplab-2.2/htdocs/ I
 > get the maplab index page, but only toolbar is displayed, because
 > appframeset.phtml has not execution permission. (Internal server 
error)
 >
 > 14) Clicking "Open XML configuration tool" icon gives me another 
server
 > error, because edit_xml_frameset.phtml has not execution permission, 
so
 > I changed all .phtml files permissions to execute them.
 >
 > So questions are:
 >
 > a) What directory would you recommend to install maplab? I guess this
 > would means to add an Alias in httpd.conf if not under /var/www or
 > /public_html
 >
 > b) It's OK to install maplab as root?
 >
 > c) Do I need to give execution permissions for all .phtml files 
really?.
 > I wonder why these come without it.
 >
 > d) May be SuEXEC is involved? I guess yes because apache can execute
 > .phtml files even if they have only user execution permission. But I
 > have not any VirtualHost directive... (I think)
 >
 > Best regards,
 >
 > Roman
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