On Thursday 19 April 2007 08:15:54 Thufir wrote: > I'm trying to install either > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pears/>, or > preferably, <http://code.google.com/p/feed-on-feeds/>. > > pears gave: > > [root@localhost Desktop]# > [root@localhost Desktop]# rpmbuild -ta pears-1.7.tgz > error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright > error: line 18: Unknown tag: Copyright: GPL > [root@localhost Desktop]# > [root@localhost Desktop]# date > Thu Apr 19 06:47:32 BST 2007 > [root@localhost Desktop]# Untar the package and just edit the spec file,delete the Copyright line and write: License: GPL Try to rebuild it again. > > so, I figure better to go with feeds-on-feeds, which seems to be sorta > maintained: > > "How do I install and use FEED ON FEEDS? > Installing it. > > 1. Download this tarball. > 2. Explode it. > 3. Edit the file config.php to contain the correct DB connection > information. > * If needed, create a MySQL DB for FEED ON FEEDS. Or, you can > use an existing DB. > 4. Upload the entire tree to wherever on your server you want FEED ON > FEEDS to live. > 5. Load the page http://{your server}/{wherever you put FEED ON > FEEDS}/install.php. The installer will first check that it can connect > to your DB, and then attempt to create the necessary two tables. Then, > it will attempt to create a subdirectory called cache where it will store > cached copies of RSS feeds. This part of the installation may fail, as > your PHP process may not have permission to create a directory. You may > need to create the directory {wherever you uploaded FEED ON FEEDS > to}/cache/ yourself, and make sure it is writable by the PHP process. If > you needed to do that, reload install.php. > 6. You should now see a message that says you're ready to go!" > <http://feedonfeeds.com/> > > I have apache up and running to the point where I get the "default" page, > or I can browse to <http://localhost/helloworld.html> for my own html, or > <http://localhost/mysql_up.php> shows that MySQL is up and running. I can > poke around in MySQL, read a PHP script, start some services, and so on, > but all this is new to me. > > /var/www/html/helloworld.html is the full path for the hello world test. > > According to step 4, could I upload the tree to /var/www/html/ ? You should take a look to the DocumentRoot line in your httpd.conf and once you have located that dir, upload it. By default, yes, /var/www/html is where you're supposed to upload it. > According to step 3, how would I determine the "correct" DB connection > info? Once you have created the user and the database, try this: mysql -D database_you_want_to_use -u user_you_want_to_user -p Hope this helps Manuel. -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.
