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Quanlei - problem of installing webwork on Panther

Quanlei - problem of installing webwork on Panther

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inactiveTopicproblem of installing webwork on Panther topic started 2/7/2005; 3:21:36 AM
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userQuanlei - problem of installing webwork on Panther  blueArrow
2/7/2005; 3:21:36 AM (reads: 748, responses: 0)
I am a newbie. I am trying to set up a testing webwork server on Panther. (Powerbook G4 OS X10.3.7, Apache: 1.3.33,perl: 5.8.1,mysql 4.0.21, webwork2.1 ).

Two problems:

1. about installing problem library. the instruction in <http://hobbes.la.asu.edu/webwork-stuff/WW-problem-library-instructions> and the process died at the running of ./redodb. (unfortunately I did it before I read the discussion <http://webhost.math.rochester.edu/webworkdocs/discuss/msgReader$2420> ), I could not access to all courses pages (including Course Administration which I could access and worked well) due to the same error: error instantiating DB driver WeBWorK::DB::Driver::SQL for table problem: DBI connect('webwork','webworkRead',...) failed: Access denied for user: 'webworkRead@localhost' (Using password: YES) at /opt/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/DB/Driver/SQL.pm line 62 at /opt/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK.pm line 211

I reinstalled mysql and tried to create new courses , I got the error: error instantiating DB driver WeBWorK::DB::Driver::SQL for table problem: DBI connect('webwork','webworkRead',...) failed: Access denied for user: 'webworkRead@localhost' (Using password: YES) at /opt/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/DB/Driver/SQL.pm line 62 at /opt/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/Utils/CourseManagement.pm line 174

So what will be a good solution?

2. about permission issues on Panther. I don't understand the way in the manual: sudo -u www-data addcourse ... (I do have access to sudo). Can somebody explain this to me?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Shelley

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