On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:40:34 -0500 (EST), John Scott
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, mmarseglia wrote:
Hey folks, I just installed SLES 9.0 and promptly installed Novell NLS. Something went a bit awry however.
First off, during the NLS installation, it came time to install Red Carpet and the installer threw an exception saying that my version of the Python C API was 11012 and Red Carpet need 11011. So Red Carpet didn't get installed.
Secondly, after the installation was complete I opened a web browser on the server and tried to access the portal by typing the dns name in the address field. I should have gotten the NLS portal, instead I got a 403 Forbidden Error.
Tomcat4 also doesn't start correctly. I get a error when trying to start Tomcat4 saying: hal:~ # /etc/init.d/novell-tomcat4 start Starting tomcat4: 0 su: warning: cannot change directory to /var/opt/novell/novlwww: Permission denied -su: /var/opt/novell/novlwww/.bash_profile: Permission denied -su: line 1: /opt/novell/tomcat4/bin/dtomcat4: Permission denied
Are those errors normal??
What I -can- do is access the WebAdministrator on port 8018 or 8020. I can also access a few other things like the Webmail, iMonitor on 8010, DHost on 8008.
Any suggestions? I'm new to Novell.. are there any other mailing lists or boards I can try?
First, NLS is only supported on SLES 8 or RHEL/RHAS 2.1, but it can be installed on other versions of SuSE and Redhat and other distros, it just takes work.
Second, NLS wants to install its own version of several packages. Probably why you're getting some errors. Install SuSE as stripped down as possible, no GUI, and try again. If you get dependency errors, try to get the exact package that NLS wants; it'll be picky about it. Python, tomcat, samba, apache, and a couple more ship with NLS.
That was the only way I got it to work on Taroon (RHEL 3 beta) and SuSE Pro 9.0 and SLES 9.
I did make that mistake the first time around. I installed apache and openldap and NNLS had all sorts of problems. The second time I didn't install apache, tomcat or openldap and the install went alot smoother..although not perfect.