[maplab-users] maplab-2.2 install

[Paul Spencer]

Hi Roman, answers inline ...

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
you can install anywhere.  It is recommended to install somewhere 
outside of your doc_root and then either create an alias or symlink

i.e.

install to /opt/maplab2.2

ln -s /opt/maplab2.2/htdocs /var/www/html/maplab

or ...

install to /home/me/maplab2.2
ln -s /home/me/maplab2.2/htdocs /home/me/public_html/maplab


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

should not be needed and probably shouldn't be done

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

no you do not and you should not.  You need to modify your Apache 
configuration file to add phtml extension to your php cgi configuration.

In my configuration, it looks like:

AddType application/x-httpd-php4 .php .php3 .phtml
Action application/x-httpd-php4 /cgi-bin/php4

DirectoryIndex index.php index.phtml index.php3

Yours may be different, but the important part is the AddType line

> 
> 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)

no.  Don't do this.  You need to associate phtml files with the php cgi.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Roman
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Cheers

Paul
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