[ale] Spacewalk 404 error

[James Sumners]

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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'Ted at Techmachine.net');> >
>> Registered GNU/Linux user #413569
>>
>>
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