[ale] Spacewalk 404 error

[Jim Kinney]

It's a beast of an application to set up. Postgres or Oracle must be setup
first so the spacewalk config can generate the tables and scripts.
It's the only large scale system management tool I've seen that can work
with tens of thousands of similar platform but different use/cinfured
systems and maintain them with timely updates and managed conguration
changes. So it's worth the effort.
But it IS a hard set up.
The PostgeSQL use is new and not complete.  The original development
process required Oracle for satellite server. The conversion to PostgreSQL
has been painful and bumpy. The app has some 200+ tables and each insert
has a pgsql script translated from plsql.
On Feb 23, 2012 9:59 PM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm glad someone else thinks this thing is wacky. I tried to install it on
> CentOS 5 earlier this week. I was following the instructions you linked,
> for Postgres, and failed on 'yum install spacewalk-postgresql'. I had all
> of the repos added that the instructions said to add, but there were still
> a bunch of missing dependencies. This is after the PostgreSQL installation
> instructions left out the 'postgresql' in 'su postgresql - ...'.
>
> So, I still have no idea if I'd like to use Spacewalk or not. I suppose
> not since they can't even get the instructions right.
>
> On Thursday, February 23, 2012, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>> I'm assuming you've installed this from the released spacewalk repo and
>> not a compiled on your own horrific nightmare.
>>
>> As this is on a RHEL6.2 system the first test is to see if the
>> installation poked up a bozo selinux error on install so run setenforce=0
>> and try loading the page again. If it works, file a bug report and check
>> for an update to selinux-policy-targeted.
>>
>> There is no file "rhn" in spacewalk. It is a generated "listener" page
>> frontend to the tomcat mess. So tomcat is not listening at the correct
>> location. Easiest solution, since you don't have a running spacewalk, is to
>> uninstall the mess and do it again. Be sure to follow the steps verbatim on
>> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall. I was running 1.6
>> PostgreSQL Spacewalk nightlies in a test rig earlier and it worked on
>> Tuesdays and alternate even/odd days :-). It does sound like you have some
>> issues with your tomcat setup so be sure to install all the add-on repos.
>> After that, it really should "JustWork".
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Ted W <ted at techmachine.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Any help or suggestions as to where to go next on this issue would be
>>> appreciated. I've installed Spacewalk 1.6 on RHEL6.2 and when I attempt to
>>> access https://servername/rhn/Login.do I receive the Spacewalk page but
>>> with a nice "404 Error - File Not Found" message where the login dialog
>>> should be.
>>>
>>> I've searched in vain to try to find a solution to this issue. The
>>> closest I can seem to figure out is that this has something to do with
>>> Apache forwarding the traffic through to Tomcat6. Beyond that I'm at a
>>> loss. Tomcat is running, as is apache and my zz-spacewalk-www.conf appears
>>> to have the proper RewriteRule line as I've seen outlined in numerous posts
>>> online. Below is the error I see in /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log:
>>>
>>> [Thu Feb 23 17:15:00 2012] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does
>>> not exist: /var/www/html/rhn, referer:
>>> https://xxx.xx.xx.xx/help/about.pxt
>>>
>>> The /help/about.pxt seems to be the only page I'm successfully able to
>>> load.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>  --
>>> Ted W. < Ted at Techmachine.net >
>>> Registered GNU/Linux user #413569
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> James P. Kinney III
>>
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>> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
>> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
>> - *2011 Noam Chomsky
>>
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>> *
>>
>
>
> --
> James Sumners
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>
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