[railroad-dev] Some help wanted

[JR]

Hi,

I will have to build a new website and we're looking for the 
opportunity to use Plone.
Railroad seems to be very useful cause we have to put many large 
files...

The main problem is that I didn't manage to install RailRoad.
I feel like a newbie cause I didn't understand that the server side 
must be installed.
Maybe I am the only one to think that but I feel there is not too much 
documentation.

Trying to install RR without database the script repoadmin.py failed 
because
there was not the Module admconf.
admconf is built only if there is a DB support.
So I am trying to install Postgre and now it tell me that it can not 
connect :
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sgi4:/Users/jrc/Desktop/railroad-0.1.4 postgre$ python repoadm.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "repoadm.py", line 23, in ?
     CON = DB.connect(admconf.dbopts)
   File "/Users/jrc/Desktop/railroad-0.1.4/db_pg.py", line 104, in 
connect
     _db = DBConn(dbopts)
   File "/Users/jrc/Desktop/railroad-0.1.4/db_pg.py", line 22, in 
__init__
     self.connect(dbopts)
   File "/Users/jrc/Desktop/railroad-0.1.4/db_pg.py", line 58, in connect
     _db = SQL.connect(dsn, minconn=min_conns, maxconn=max_conns, 
serialize=0)
psycopg.OperationalError: could not connect to server: Connection 
refused
         Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting
         TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

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To check this is working and not working...

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sgi4:/usr/local/share postgre$ psql -p 5432 dav
Welcome to psql 7.4.6, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
        \h for help with SQL commands
        \? for help on internal slash commands
        \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
        \q to quit

dav=# \q
sgi4:/usr/local/share postgre$ psql -h localhost -p 5432 dav
psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
         Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting
         TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
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I got something strange

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sgi4:/usr/local/share postgre$ psql -h "" -p 5432 dav
Welcome to psql 7.4.6, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
        \h for help with SQL commands
        \? for help on internal slash commands
        \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
        \q to quit

dav=#
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So I put nothing in question 13 of script mk_conf.py...
At this point it is not easy to redo mk_conf.py

This is the story of a non easy installation of RR.
I hope it is the end of my trouble.
But from now on I don't know how to check if it is running well...

-- 
JR