It seems that webbioc hardly gets any current coverage/documentation, etc. I think the last post I read anywhere was from 2003. I've set up a "test run" of webbioc under Mac OS X 10.3.7 on my desktop, which, if successful, might end up on our Apple Workgroup Cluster. I've set everything up according to the PDF, and have installed all the required components. I've got the pages up and running, but I've hit a roadblock pretty early on. When I try to start a new session in the upload manager, I simply get a "Error: Couldn't create new session" message. I've got debugging on, but have no idea where any of the debugging info should show up, so I can get an idea of what's going wrong. I'm sure if I knew more about Perl I'd be able to diagnose the problem more quickly. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance! --Jake Michaelson

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 01:18, Jacob Michaelson wrote: > I've got the pages up and running, but I've hit a roadblock pretty > early on. When I try to start a new session in the upload manager, I > simply get a "Error: Couldn't create new session" message. > >From my experience this can be tracked down normally to a permissions problem. The user that apache runs on need to have write privileges in the upload directory. It might be anything similar. > I've got debugging on, but have no idea where any of the debugging info > should show up, so I can get an idea of what's going wrong. I'm sure > if I knew more about Perl I'd be able to diagnose the problem more > quickly. > A starting point can be the apache error_log, it normally gives you a good idea on how the cgi script failed. Hope this helps. If you need help with debugging just drop a line. Jose Jose M. Duarte MRC Functional Genetics Unit University of Oxford

Jake- That happens when the upload manager can't create a new directory to store session contents. Check to make sure that $UPLOAD_DIR is set correctly in the Site.pm configuration file. Also check to make sure that directory is writable by Apache (user www or group www). -Colin On Jan 21, 2005, at 3:06, bioconductor-request@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: > It seems that webbioc hardly gets any current coverage/documentation, > etc. I think the last post I read anywhere was from 2003. > > I've set up a "test run" of webbioc under Mac OS X 10.3.7 on my > desktop, which, if successful, might end up on our Apple Workgroup > Cluster. I've set everything up according to the PDF, and have > installed all the required components. > > I've got the pages up and running, but I've hit a roadblock pretty > early on. When I try to start a new session in the upload manager, I > simply get a "Error: Couldn't create new session" message. > > I've got debugging on, but have no idea where any of the debugging info > should show up, so I can get an idea of what's going wrong. I'm sure > if I knew more about Perl I'd be able to diagnose the problem more > quickly. > > Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance! > > --Jake Michaelson