[LON-CAPA-admin] Dynamic Plots on Debian

[Todd Ruskell]

Thanks Mark,

I think I remember hearing about that a while, back.  I'm currently
running 3.7.2-4.

Todd

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 13:52, Mark Lucas wrote:
> Todd,
> 
> One other thing to remember (I think this is still the case) is that you 
> need a specific version of gnuplot or GD due to gif considerations.
> 
> Is this still true?
> 
> Later,
> Mark
> On 24 Jun 2003, Todd Ruskell wrote:
> 
> > Guy,
> > 
> > Thanks for your help getting LON-CAPA set up on Debian.  I even got
> > Kerberos compiled up, and 0.99.2 seems to be up and running.  However, I
> > still had to edit startup.pl and uncomment the perl5/site_perl/5.005
> > line to get it to find all the modules.
> > 
> > One problem I've run into is that dynamically generated plots don't seem
> > to get generated/stored properly for me.  I just get the little broken
> > image icon, and when I right-click on the image and try to view or
> > download it, not surprisingly I get a Not Found error:
> > 
> > The requested URL /cgi-bin/plot.gif was not found on this server.
> > 
> > So I went poking for cgi-bin, and found one here:  /home/httpd/cgi-bin,
> > as I think I expect.  However, it seems to have the following access
> > privileges:
> > 
> > drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root
> > 
> > If www is trying to place items there, that clearly won't work.  
> > 
> > Two questions:  Is this where loncapa is looking for cgi-bin? If so,
> > what perms does it need to have?  If now, where do I need to create
> > another cgi-bin, and what perms should it have?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help,
> > 
> > Todd
> > 
> > 
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