Picture Placemat

version 2.0 (2011)

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Distributions Tested

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Status Colours:    works        minimal tweaks required        several tweaks required        does not work

*also see "Common Issues" at end of page

• Debian based distributions:
  
  

• Debian 6.0.1 32bit   works with minimal tweaks

• • kernel 2.6.32-5-686
  • required install of Apache, MySQL, ImageMagick, curl and tree
  • DocumentRoot was /var/www but not auto-discovered because of cgi-bin location
    • you will need to confirm this and manually enter it during the install
  • SlideShow broken due to apache deflate module
    • for the fix, see "Common Issues, impacting" at end of page

• Ubuntu 11.04 64bit   works with minimal tweaks

• • kernel 2.6.38-8-server
  • DocumentRoot was /var/www but not auto-discovered because of cgi-bin location
    • you will need to confirm this and manually enter it during the install
  • required install of curl and ImageMagick (Apache and MySQL were selected at install)
  • SlideShow broken due to apache deflate module
    • for the fix, see "Common Issues, impacting" at end of page

• Linux Mint 11 32bit   works with minimal tweaks

• • kernel 2.6.38-8-generic
  • installed Apache2, MySQL, curl, tree & OpenSSH via some software manager
  • DocumentRoot was /var/www but not auto-discovered because of cgi-bin location
    • you will need to confirm this and manually enter it during the install
  • SlideShow broken due to apache deflate module
    • for the fix, see "Common Issues, impacting" at end of page

• openSUSE 11.4 64bit   works

• • I'm not sure where this belongs, Debian or Red Hat, it's got a bit of both.
  • kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop
  • installed Apache2, MySQL, ImageMagick & tree all via YaST
  • had to open firewall (via YaST) to allow httpd and sshd

• Red Hat based distributions:
  
  

• Fedora 15 32bit   works

• • kernel 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686
  • SELinux was enabled. This causes several issues
    • the resolution is covered in the text docs ppm-selinux.txt
  • required install of httpd mysql mysql-server ImageMagick
  • no issues discovered

• Fedora 12 64bit   works

• • this was my workstaion, and used as the main dev box
  • kernel 2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64
  • FIXED: Works well except the SlideShow misses the first image and is sometimes mixed up on slide count related tasks
  • SELinux was enabled. This causes several issues
    • the resolution is covered in the text docs ppm-selinux.txt

• Mandriva2010.2 32bit   works

• • kernel 2.6.33.7-desktop586-2mnb
  • installed Apache2, MySQL, ImageMagick, tree & bind-utils (to get host) all via a gui software tool
  • of interest, they seem to be using some modified form of SELinux but call it "msec".
    The only issue this caused was that I could not allow ssh by root which would make uploading images a lot easier but has no impact on the end results.

Unix and Other (non-Linux):

• FreeBSD 8.2 32bit   does not work

• • this does not work. I may look at porting it in the future
    • the main concern is that 'sed' requires a -E switch to support Extended/Modern Regular Expressions
    • some commands like tr and wc differ slightly in output format
    • needs bash installed and symlinked to /bin/bash
    • there may be a problem with the URL-decode function, but it has been updated since the BSD tests were failing with it
    • if you decide to try this, the install does appear to work. It is post install where the problems are exposed

Hosting Services:

• Webnames Hosting Service   works

• • this was the initial dev site and the main site for testing remote or hosted aspects during development
  • Webnames
  • UPDATE: webnames removed the mysql client, so unless you speak nicely to them it will fail.
    Also they removed a few things that impact info displayed in Admin Tools, but do not impact functionality.

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Common Issues & Fixes

1. SlideShow broken due to apache deflate module
   you can test for it as root by running

     apachectl -M 2> /dev/null | grep deflate
       

   if it is running, and the slide show is broken, do one of the following
   • if you have root access to the Apache service, run:

       a2dismod deflate
       service apache2 restart
           

   • otherwise, if htaccess is turned on (you need root to turn on):
     (untested)
     1. create a '.htaccess' file in the cgi-bin directory (the name, starting with a dot is required)
     2. add the single line "RemoveOutputFilter DEFLATE" (no quotes) to the .htaccess file
     3. if htaccess support is enabled then that shold fix the problem

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