Thanks a million, Emmanuel. I took another stab at it and made significant headway. At the moment I'm gotten as far as 'make initialize-database' and am now adjusting ~rt/rt3/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm and adding details to your instructions. Below are my notes interlaced with your help.
// George On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:43:53AM +0100, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: >On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:11:17PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: >> yeah, I never worked out RT on woody. (did cause some problems on a test box, >> broke apt-get when I overwrote the perl debs with a source build). >> >> scp goodhost:/usr/bin/perl* /usr/bin/ >> >> fixed it. Would really like to see a howto, too, even though everything seems >> in the RT docs... >> > >Are you ready??? > > Install apache, fastcgi, mysql ... from woody. libcgi-fast-perl libfcgi-perl perl-suid libmysqlclitn10-dev deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable mysql-dfsg http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/draftmanual.pdf Adduser rt su - rt Get perl 5.8.x as a tarball wget -N http://perl.com/CPAN/src/stable.tar.gz untar build and install in /home/rt/perl rm -f config.sh Policy.sh \ && sh Configure -de -Dprefix=$HOME/perl \ && make \ && make test \ && make install make sure PATH for rt is /home/rt/perl/bin:$PATH wget -N http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt.tar.gz uncompress rt3.x in /home/rt/rt-3.x cd into it run the configure ./configure --prefix=$HOME/rt3 --with-my-user-group then fix Makefile PERL = /usr/home/rt/perl/bin/perl5.8.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/rt-3-0-7_01$ perl sbin/rt-test-dependencies --with-mysql --with-fastcgi run perl -MCPAN -e shell and configure the default options asked CPAN build and cache directory? [/usr/home/rt/.cpan] /usr/home/rt/src/cpan Parameters for the 'make install' command? UNINST=1 run the test for perl modules with --install from rt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/rt-3-0-7_01$ perl sbin/rt-test-dependencies --with-mysql --with-fastcgi --install it will install almost all modules needed, for just somes you will have to install the corrects header from woody (libmysqlclitn10-dev for example) and for some you will need to go into /home/rt/.cpan/build to make it yourself [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/rt-3-0-7_01$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::mysql' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/rt-3-0-7_01$ make install [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/rt-3-0-7_01$ make initialize-database configure your apache for fastcgi: LoadModule fastcgi_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_fastcgi.so In your vhost: ScriptAlias /rt /home/rt/rt/bin/mason_handler.fcgi/ FastCgiServer /home/rt/rt/bin/mason_handler.fcgi Alias /NoAuth/images/ /home/rt/rt/share/html/NoAuth/images/ <Location /rt> AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 SetHandler fastcgi-script </Location> That's a quick howto because I need to go to work;) This is the only one method I've found to keep my woody box in a good state. It just need to maintain perl for security fixes...But building perl 5.8 as a package for woody would need a lot of time... If I can help you... -- Emmanuel Lacour ------------------------------------ Easter-eggs 44-46 rue de l'Ouest - 75014 Paris - France - Métro Gaité Phone: +33 (0) 1 43 35 00 37 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 41 35 00 76 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.easter-eggs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 646-331-2027 <IXOYE>< Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george
