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[whobutdrew]

Hi all! I've been tinkering with creating an LJ site of my own on and off for a bit, but as firefoxfey can tell you, with vanilla LJ, its been made of fail, because manually configuring Apache 1.3.x and I don't mix. So when she told me that DW was Apache2 friendly, I thusly said YAY! And have been excited about getting my hands dirty again.

I've run into my first problem. I saw this, which the same problem that I am running into. Contained within the comments is the link to this patch, which I have saved as foo.patch in my $LJHOME directory. When I try to run

patch -p0 < foo.patch

I get this:

dw@ubuntu:~$ patch -p0 < foo.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 12
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|angeset patch
|# User Andrea Nall <anall@andreanall.com>
|# Date 1247811160 0
|# Branch production
|# Node ID 3c20fe0db2767b39cf1d1594d8e0b3541e83555a
|# Parent a9fbb12e6ff89198ffded1e9235801b2994ce47b
|[mq]: DWFreeOnly
|
|diff -r a9fbb12e6ff8 -r 3c20fe0db276 cgi-bin/LJ/User.pm
|--- a/cgi-bin/LJ/User.pm Thu Jul 16 22:10:15 2009 -0500
|+++ b/cgi-bin/LJ/User.pm Fri Jul 17 06:12:40 2009 +0000
--------------------------
File to patch:

Based on that, I try to give it $LJHOME/cgi-bin/LJ/User.pm, which doesn't exist, so the script failed. I got the same thing when I sudo'd the command. I also tried to run

hg qimport foo.patch

From here: http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Patches#Applying_Patches

And I got 'parameter not recognized.'

I'm an IT tech by day, so you can drop some technobabble at me, but I am NOT by any means a programmer/developer! I took a class of Perl in college, but that's about it. This is also my first foray into building a server other than a fileserver.

So please. Tell me what probably simple thing I'm doing wrong so I can move on to squeeing about finally getting a webserver workening!

Comments

[pauamma]

Not sure, reading the above comments, whether you still need help with hg qimport, but in case you do:

- Make sure you have the following lines in your ~/.hgrc:

[extensions]
hgext.mq =

- If you still get errors, check the syntax of hg qimport using

hg help qimport

- If none of the above helps, reply with the exact command line and the complete output from hg.

[whobutdrew]

Patching with the above steps got me through the rest of the config and now I'm troubleshooting the various Perl and Apache settings to get around my 500 Error (Yay for progress!)

I don't have a ~/.hgrc file in /home/dw. Perhaps that's a problem?

[pauamma]

I don't have a ~/.hgrc file in /home/dw. Perhaps that's a problem?

Not you want to use the MQ extension. Then you need to create one with these lines in it.