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Lots of things not working when following the manual exactly #922

Open danielniccoli opened 11 years ago

danielniccoli commented 11 years ago

Original author: arjan.va...@gmail.com (February 27, 2012 15:30:47)

I was very enthousiastic when reading about Cherokee, however it seems that nothing, besides the basic server of pages works.

Here is what I have experienced in the past few hours. I am running OSX Lion BTW

  1. Downloaded 1.2.101
  2. ./configure as was said in the manual
  3. ./make -j4 and make install as was in the manual
  4. cherokee-admin does not exists, however it is now called cherokee-admin-launcher. Small difference, but still.
  5. Whilst in the admin (Chrome or Firefox) everything seems to work fine and I can start the server and actually serve pages.

Here come the troubles:

  1. Trying to install the phpmyadmin app fails due to PHP missing
  2. OK, fixed that, but now I see that there is an unfinished installation which I can not remove. When deleting the installation I get the small ajax-waiting icon in the bottom of the screen but nothing happens. Irritating.
  3. Trying to install phpmyadmin again. But now it downloads in 1 second and after that nothing happens.
  4. After restart of cherokee-admin I am able to download phpmyadmin again and get to the part where I have to configure it.
  5. Default drop-down box says: New VirtualHost, but I want it as a directory of existing virtual host, so I pick that drop down. Again... a small ajax-loading icon and nothing happens. I try /phpmyadmin, but nothing happens when pressing OK.
  6. Restart admin interface and redownload phpmyadmin (because again, I am stuck at 3.). And now I don't try to install it as a directory of an existing virtualhost but just create a new virtualhost. When pressing OK nothing happens.

I really dig the idea of this user-friendlyness, however, when it is NOT working and I am following all the manuals it is even more annoying than a server where I have to alter a few .conf files.

Am I using an unstable version? Is this browser-specific? Is this OS-specific? What is happening?

Besides that a lot of documentation is a little off. Not completely up-to-date anymore.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/cherokee/issues/detail?id=1345

danielniccoli commented 11 years ago

From ste...@konink.de on June 08, 2012 16:54:15 We really need to update the documentation.