[hobbit] Configuration question

[Josh Luthman]

Two issues then - Hobbit isn't running as bb.html isn't being generated.

Secondly DirectoryIndex has to be mentioned, as you have apach2.conf I'm
sure it is debian - do a grep /etc/httpd/* -R DirectoryIndex

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On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Daniel Elswit <de21 at cornell.edu> wrote:

>  Earlier today I had a permissions problem, but I've since modified the
> permissions to allow both the hobbit user and www-data full access to the
> /usr/bin/hobbit tree (and it's world-readable/executable) and haven't seen
> new instances of permissions errors recently.  Nothing has shown up recently
> in the bb-display.log.  hobbitlaunch.log still has the "Task bbdisplay
> terminated by signal 6" errors.
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> I'm assuming that bbgen generates the pages?  If the hobbit user manually
> runs bbgen it just says "aborted".  Not sure if that's normal.  There is no
> bb.html on the entire system, and no index.html in anything related to
> hobbit.  There is no DirectoryIndex statement in apache2.conf.
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> --Dan
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> *From:* Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:53 PM
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> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Configuration question
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> When you go to that url you should get the hobbit display page.  You're
> not, because bbdisplay is crashing.  Is there anything interesting in
> bb-display.log??
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> Ralph Mitchell
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>  On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Daniel Elswit <de21 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> Thanks for the reply!  The trailing slash gives me the directory listing of
> /hobbit (gifs, help, html, menu, etc.)  The alias statement is:
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> Alias /hobbit/  "/usr/bin/hobbit/server/www/"
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> Hobbit does in fact live in /usr/bin/hobbit.
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> --Dan
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> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:23 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Configuration question
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> Try the address http://localhost/hobbit/ (note the trailing slash)
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> What is your Alias statement in apache2.conf?
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> Josh Luthman
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> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Elswit <de21 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> Hello.  I'm attempting to set up Hobbit 4.2 on a Debian box (very clean -
> Hobbit is the only thing it's doing.)  I followed all the directions -
> loaded the prerequisites, patched with the all-in-one patch, added the
> hobbit-specific lines into apache2.conf, etc.  It compiled and installed
> just fine, and the service starts.  But when I go to the
> http://localhost/hobbit page, I get a "404 not found" error.  The
> apache2.conf file points to the ~hobbit/server/www directory but I don't
> see
> any html files there or in the subdirectory "html" under that.  In the
> hobbitlaunch.log I see a number of "Task bbdisplay terminated by signal
> 6"... not sure if that's related.  Any thoughts?  I'm starting to run out
> of
> options to try.
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> Thanks!
> --Dan
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