Installing context on a web server

Installing context on a web server

[Stéphanie Vilayphiou]

Hello,
I am using Context to produce PDF out of a website.
It works well on my local machine, but I can't seem to install Context 
system-wise on my server.

I first installed Context as a single-user on the server with 
first-setup.sh.
Then I realized I needed Context to be accessed by any user.

So I tried to run first-setup.sh in /opt/context as root.
First of all, I have troubles with rsync connections through first-setup.sh.


"""
rsync: failed to connect to contextgarden.net: Connection timed out (110)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) 
[Receiver=3.0.7]

...
resolvers       | resolving | warning: no lua configuration files found
resolvers       | resolving | no texmf paths are defined (using TEXMF)
resolvers       | resolving |
mtxrun          | the resolver databases are not present or outdated
mtx-update      | state, loaded
mtx-update      |
mtx-update      | update, startrsync: failed to connect to 
contextgarden.net: Connection timed out (110)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) 
[Receiver=3.0.7]

mtx-update      | run, rsync -rpztlv --delete 
contextgarden.net::'minimals/current/context/beta/' 
'/opt/context/tex/texmf-context'rsync: failed to connect to 
contextgarden.net: Connection timed out (110)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) 
[Receiver=3.0.7]

mtx-update      | run, rsync -rpztlv 
contextgarden.net::'minimals/current/bin/common/linux-64/ 
minimals/current/bin/context/linux-64/ 
minimals/current/bin/metapost/linux-64/ minimals/current/bin/man/ 
minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux-64/ 
minimals/current/bin/xetex/linux-64/ 
minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux-64/ 
minimals/current/bin/pdftex/linux-64/ 
minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux-64/ 
minimals/current/bin/luajittex/linux-64/' '/opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64'
"""



So I copy/pasted the files from the single-user install in /opt/context/.
Then Context runs only if I source it with: "source 
/opt/context/tex/setuptex" but putting it in my $PATH doesn't work and 
it disappears from my path when I come back to su.

"""
root@erba-web1:~# echo $PATH
     /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
root@erba-web1:~# PATH=$PATH:/opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin
root@erba-web1:~# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin
root@erba-web1:~# exit
$ sudo su
root@erba-web1:/home/admin_esad# echo $PATH
     /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
"""

(actually this $PATH thing doesn't work either on my local machine, I 
have to source it every time I want to use it...)

Any idea?
Stéphanie



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Re: Installing context on a web server

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Stéphanie Vilayphiou wrote:
>
> So I tried to run first-setup.sh in /opt/context as root.
> First of all, I have troubles with rsync connections through first-setup.sh.
>
>
> """
> rsync: failed to connect to contextgarden.net: Connection timed out (110)
> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122)
> [Receiver=3.0.7]

Does anyone else have that problem? Does root user get proper DNS settings?

I can check the server logs, but it's more likely that there are some
weird server settings on your side if it works for regular user and
only fails when you run sudo. Another (not likely, but possible)
option is that you actually run a different binary when you use sudo.

> So I copy/pasted the files from the single-user install in /opt/context/.
> Then Context runs only if I source it with: "source
> /opt/context/tex/setuptex" but putting it in my $PATH doesn't work and it
> disappears from my path when I come back to su.
> """
> root@erba-web1:~# echo $PATH
>     /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
> root@erba-web1:~# PATH=$PATH:/opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin
> root@erba-web1:~# echo $PATH
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin
> root@erba-web1:~# exit
> $ sudo su
> root@erba-web1:/home/admin_esad# echo $PATH
>     /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
> """

This is expected.

> (actually this $PATH thing doesn't work either on my local machine, I have
> to source it every time I want to use it...)
>
> Any idea?

What distribution is running on the server? See for example

http://askubuntu.com/questions/128413/setting-the-path-so-it-applies-to-all-users-including-root-sudo

You need to edit some configuration file that applies path to all
users. I would suggest hardcoding the path in that system setting
rather than sourcing setuptex. Please also be careful about setting
TEXMFCACHE path. Personally I would create a texmf.cnf file somewhere
next to texmf-foo trees setting that variable to something that won't
clash between users (each user needs his own TEXMFCACHE path).

Mojca
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