On Oct 1, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Peter Crowther wrote:
2009/10/1 Daniel Wittenberg <dwittenberg2...@gmail.com>:
I know spacewalk doesn't have it's own tomcat, the install pulls
everything
it needs
Yes, but it probably doesn't *configure* it. The spacewalk RPM
probably expresses a dependency on Apache httpd and a dependency on
Tomcat. So you'll get a bare httpd from its rpm (which will not be
configured to talk to Tomcat) and a bare Tomcat from its RPM (which
will not be configured to talk to httpd, might be of a different
version to the one Spacewalk is expecting if it expresses a >=
dependency, and which appears to have at least a docbase/appbase
issue). I presume you'll then have to configure them to talk to each
other, via mod_jk, mod_proxy or mod_proxy_ajp.
Actually it does configure it
I'm thinking what might work best is just to wipe the VM with a
fresh OS
install and try the install again and see what happens.
I suspect you'll get to exactly the same place
Actually this time it worked. Not sure what happened last time, but
it's about 99% working right now.
I got no errors
during the install, so it all appeared to be working until I went
to login
You wouldn't - the bits are installed, the files are in the right
place, I just suspect that the Spacewalk RPM is not set up to tell
httpd how to talk to Tomcat. Nor should it - otherwise it has the
potential to break a working system.
Not sure I agree here. You can easily put httpd configs out there
that tell how certain apps work. Just dump your configs in /etc/httpd/
conf.d and good-to-go. Obviously if you just happen to dfefine
another alias on your server for /rhn/ you're gonna have issues, but
otherwise there's no problems, and it pretty common to see web-apps
that install configs on how to make it work.
Looking at the wiki, I also cannot see how spacewalk-setup connects
httpd with Tomcat.
RHN is the management console that on the commercial side Red Hat
uses to
manage the Red Hat Enterprise licenses and clients, this is just the
opensource version of that.
Ah. <rant> And it appears to have DeadRat's now-traditional poor
quality - you'd think they would at least check for warnings before
releasing. I used to like that distro 12 years ago, but the quality
went downhill sharply once they split Fedora off. </rant>
- Peter
Yeah, sometimes I wonder about some of the apps when they get moved to
opensource, like RHN, they get better but makes you wonder how this is
working internally for them.
BTW 12 years ago would have been like Red Hat Linux 5.0, way before
fedora :)
Dan
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