mySiteOnCD - Version 1.0 - build 1

mySiteOnCD Generic help file

This MPIF application is a generic starter up for other applications that serve your dynamic website on CDRom. mySiteOnCD launches external standalone webserver, database service and your prefered web browser. More specifically, the current version of mySiteOnCD is delivered with Apache 2 (php4 module), mysql 4 and it starts your preferred registered web browser.

If you are reading this file, some errors happened during the startup process. So let us see if the following checklist have been all satisfied.

• There have been some errors happened during the startup and a message was displayed.
  Please read carefully the error message displayed and correct the problem. In order to this application work correctly, no error/warning messages should be displayed during the startup.

• The webserver does not started.
  Verify that the website apache started correctly. Click here and check that the index page is displayed correctly.
  If that is not the case check:
  • that the TCP/IP port number 8090 is not used by an other application. In that case, stop the later application and restart your navigation.
  • You are STRONGLY recommended to stop other apache webservers on your machine while using this version of mySiteOnCD.
  • Read if there errors in the standard error logfile. To do this, you need first to check your TEMP directory i.e. in a shell command, you can see it with the command:
    c:\>echo %TEMP%
    If this environment variable is not set, MPIF puts all log and temporary files in c:\temp. The files to be checked are errors.log and apache_err.log.

• The database does not started.
  Verify if the mysql-d started correctly. You can check it with the TASK MANAGER and see if mysqld process is running.
  If that is not the case check:
  • NO MULTIPLE MYSQL DATABASES. Please stop if there is other mysql running on this macchine.
  • Read if there errors in the standard error logfile. To do this, you need first to check your TEMP directory i.e. in a shell command, you can see it with the command:
    c:\>echo %TEMP%
    If this environment variable is not set, MPIF puts all log and temporary files in c:\temp. The files to be checked are errors.log and mysql_err.log.

• The database seem started correctly, but I could see my database.
  NO MULTIPLE MYSQL DATABASES. Please stop if there is other mysql running on this macchine.