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My question is whether this file has to be present in all course/logs directories? And do I have to create it manually.

Lars.

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Check that the directory logs is owned by the webserver and that the webserver has write privileges so that it can create login.log if need be. Check this for the course modelCourse in particular since this is often used as a template for creating new courses.

Try creating a new course from the web and let us know if there is a difficulty creating the login.log file.

-- Mike

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When I add a new course, the login.logs is created as expected. However, I can't login to modelCourse -if I try, I get lots of errors (see below)... Is this because I'm upgrading from 2.1.3 with cvs instead of clean installing?

Warning messages

* DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'webwork.modelCourse_user' doesn't exist at /opt/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/DB/Schema/SQL.pm line 226.

Error messages

DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'webwork.modelCourse_user' doesn't exist at /opt/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/DB/Schema/SQL.pm line 226.

Call stack

The information below can help locate the source of the problem. * in WeBWorK::DB::Schema::SQL::gets called at line 202 of /opt/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/DB/Schema/SQL.pm * in WeBWorK::DB::Schema::SQL::get called at line 1039 of /opt/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/DB.pm * in WeBWorK::DB::getUser called at line 179 of /opt/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/Authen.pm * in WeBWorK::Authen::verify called at line 227 of /opt/webwork2/lib/WeBWorK.pm

Request information

Method POST URI /webwork2/modelCourse/ HTTP Headers User-Agent Lynx/2.8.5rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 GNUTLS/0.8.12 Content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded Accept text/html, text/plain, audio/basic, audio/x-wav, audio/x-aiff, application/x-troff-man, application/x-tar, application/x-gtar, text/*, application/x-debian-package, */*;q=0.01 Referer http://localhost/webwork2/modelCourse/ Content-length 51 Accept-Encoding gzip, compress Cache-Control no-cache Accept-Language en Pragma no-cache Host localhost

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The "problem" is that modelCourse is really just a template for new courses so it has a directory structure, but no entry in the sql database (hence all the errors reported by the DB modules). There is probably no need for modelCourse to become a real course. So you can just leave things the way they are.

If you want to create a real course with that name temporarily rename modelCoure to modelCourse2 (you'll need to do that with unix commands) and then create the course modelCourse from the web using modelCourse2 as a template. Then you can delete the directory modelCourse2 using unix commands.

I think that your system is actually working well except for the initial problem of creating the admin course login.log by hand. I think what we need to change is the setup of the initial admin course -- I suspect that we've neglected to properly create the login.log file (or perhaps set the permission on logs/) when we create that initial course from the command line.) I've created a bug report on the issue (#986). You can add additional information to that.

--Mike

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Thanks for the reply. In think everythingexcept for permissions may have been OK after the cvs update. I first neglected to set the permissions again after having done the CVS update. I think that the problem may have been that the web server did not have write rights in the logs directories. (It seems permissions sometimes gets messed up after a cvs update, and that things first work right again after I have set the file and directory permissions again.)

Lars.

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