[Wolves] (Covide) More help pls

[Adam Sweet]

Peter Cannon wrote:
> On Thursday 17 August 2006 22:21, Adam Sweet wrote:
> 
>> This is a postgresql permissions error. Does your apache user have read
>> permissions on that db?
> 
> Oo'er um.
> 
> Sorry for being dim, I presume apache is owned by root?
> Via the browser on the VMPlayer --> Debian-->peter using epiphany I'm browsing 
> to localhost which immediately brings up the Covide login screen.

Heh, no worries Pete. On Debian systems, Apache runs as the user
'www-data', but I think I might have taken you up the garden path there.

> 
> I then enter the user name and password that is entered in the postgres 
> database as the owner also the database, user & password is entered in the 
> file /var/www/inc_db.php

Right, the username, password and probably host address of the database
server (localhost by the sound of it) that you supplied in
/var/www/inc_db.php is what will be used to connect to the database.
Postgres needs to have suitable permissions for that user to access the
database.

Off the top of my head, I don't know postgres very well. Someone else
will have to explain that.

> 
> This is all on Debian Sarge running in VM Player.
> 
> Before I lead everyone up the garden path there are two packages that I have 
> not installed because I cant find them apt says they are mentioned but not 
> available they are;
> 
> php5-pear & php5-tidy

PHP5-pear may well be important. Pear is like a whole extra library of
PHP stuff distributed outside of the core PHP. Do an apt-get update and
then an apt-cache search pear | grep pear. I'm running Sarge on my mail
server and it had php4 and php4-pear which is why php5-pear might not be
available to you.

dpkg --get-selections | grep php

will tell you what php stuff is installed and

php -v

will give you an exact version.

Hope that helps a little.

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