Booktype on Windows 10 using Oracle VM Virtual Box
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Arne MüllerArne Müller
    Posts: 6Member
    Hi,

    I want to write offline and on my own, maybe later start my own server (hosted).
    Went through the manual installation steps for GNU/Linux and it went well - only the result was not quite right.

    When accessing Booktype on my laptop (latest Chrome and Firefox) the display was "crippled" - only some navigation points were visible.
    Anyone having gone through this kind of setup before? Installation steps for noobs? Any known tricks?

    Thank you

    Arne

    P.S. Free copies of the book will be provided - online.
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Arne,

    Which GNU/Linux distro did you host on Virtualbox, and did you use the automatic or manual install? If you have a screenshot, that would help.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Arne MüllerArne Müller
    Posts: 6Member
    Hi Daniel,

    it is Ubuntu 14.04.4 with VM Ware Player 12 on Windows 10 (boooooo....).

    After going nuts trying to adjust the screen resolution in Oracle´s Virtual Box I reverted back to VM Ware Player, the free version.

    I did a manual install using the steps here:
    https://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/booktype-20-for-authors-and-publishers/installation-on-gnulinux/

    Error 500 could be anything, no?

    But it feels as if I am close....


    Cheers

    Arne


    Post edited by Arne Müller at 2016-10-14 13:39:13
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Arne MüllerArne Müller
    Posts: 6Member
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Arne,

    Yes, error 500 is an internal server error and could be anything. First place to look for clues is in the Booktype and Apache error logs on the Ubuntu guest OS, for example with the terminal command:

    sudo tail /var/log/apache2/error.log

    Also, if you view source of the Booktype homepage and look at the <head> element, where are the <link> tags pointing to? Are the CSS URLs in the href= part of the link tags actually resolvable?

    Cheers!

    Daniel
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Arne MüllerArne Müller
    Posts: 6Member
    Hi Daniel,

    attached are my logs.

    this is how the <head> section looks like:

    <!doctype html>
    <html lang="en" class="custom-scroll">
     <head>
      <meta charset="UTF-8">
      <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
      <title></title>

     
       
       
       

       


     

     
     
     </head> 
    <body>

    Let me know if you need more.

    Thanks!

    Arne
    booktype.txt
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    Post edited by Arne Müller at 2016-10-29 14:08:28
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Arne,

    Looks like you have an issue because the hostname of the Ubuntu virtual server is not resolveable:

    Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message


    What I would suggest is that you set a dummy FQDN in /etc/hosts on the Ubuntu VM using the local address 127.0.1.1 like so:


    127.0.1.1       booktype.arnemueller.com    booktype
    Then the command: 
    hostname -f
    should return this dummy name, which you can use in your Booktype/Apache configuration.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Arne MüllerArne Müller
    Posts: 6Member
    Hi Daniel,

    played around with it but no change yet. Maybe I am missing something. The 2 files attached.

    Cheers

    Arne
    my booktype conf.txt
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Arne,

    In booktype-instance1.conf the first two lines ServerName and HTTP_HOST should be just:

    booktype.arnemueller.com

    like this:

    ServerName booktype.arnemueller.com 
    SetEnv HTTP_HOST "booktype.arnemueller.com"

    Then reload the Apache configuration with:

    sudo service apache2 reload

    and go to http://booktype.arnemueller.com on the browser of the Ubuntu virtual machine.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Arne MüllerArne Müller
    Posts: 6Member
    Hi Daniel,

    done that and now the browser returns:

    Internal Server Error 500

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator at arne@localhost to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
    Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at booktype.arnemueller.com Port 80

    Hmmm....any other idea?

    Cheers

    Arne
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Congratulations Arne, you have found a real bug :-) https://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/BK-2080 and now https://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/BK-2081 broke the installer. These should be fixed in https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype/pull/603/files so please do this:


    cd /usr/local/src/booktype
    git fetch origin
    git checkout master
    git pull origin master
    You should see that the files in requirements/ get updated. Then run these commands:
    sudo pip install -r /usr/local/src/booktype/requirements/dev.txt
    sudo pip install -r /usr/local/src/booktype/requirements/prod.txt
    sudo supervisorctl restart all
    sudo service apache2 restart
    There are more up-to-date instructions at:

    http://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/booktype-21-for-authors-and-publishers/manual-installation-on-gnulinux/

    Let us know how you get on!
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Arne MüllerArne Müller
    Posts: 6Member
    Hi Daniel,

    what I did: I deleted all booktype files and folders as the updating as described above did not work. Did a fresh install according to the new instructions, left PostgreSQL Vers. 9.3 untouched. Changed the conf files as described above. The webserver seems to work and the name is being resolved. Still I have that crippled start page now with an Error 500 at the bottom as in the screenshot below.

    But hey, Elon did not launch every rocket successfully ;-).

    Cheers

    Arne


    Booktype Home .PNG
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Arne,

    Could you attach fresh logs from the new instance please?

    Thanks!

    Daniel
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