Manila server is dead!

[Vila, Hector]

...and once again, more....


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From: "Raymond Yee" <yee at uclink.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: <Frontier-Users at userland.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:48:44 -0400
To: <Frontier-Users at userland.com>
Subject: Re: Manila server is dead!

Just to make sure the problem isn't seen as an isolated one: 

We had exactly the same problem -- and we are running Frontier 9 on 
Windows 2000 server.  We solved the problem in exactly the same way too 
(replacing config.root with a backup version). 

-Raymond 

Grant Dunham wrote: 

> I've had a similar message several times over the past month. Our 
> server is on Windows 2000. (So I don't think it's a OS X problem.) 
> I fixed my problems by copying my most recent backup of config.root. 
> There's a entry in config.root - mainresponder.domain that should 
> contain an entry for every site on your server. For some reason, it 
> just disappeared.  I blamed the first two times on a faulty network.  
> (I had a user who was accessing his sites via a faulty hub.  There was 
> lots of other network problems with that hub.) We changed out the hub 
> and it seemed to work. But I got the message again just last week. I 
> have not traced the problem yet. 
> Grant 
> 
> Kirk Langer wrote: 
> 
>> List: 
>> 
>> I manage three Manila servers on OS X and I help with troubleshooting 
>> on several others.  This past week we saw two OS X servers turn up 
>> with the error: 
>> 
>> Server Configuration error.  A sitetree's xml structure must no be empty 
>> 
>> Thisi is the message that we get when trying to access via a web 
>> browser.  No access to the admin at port 5336 either.  Updates are 
>> enabled on both boxes, but the strange thing is that this is not 
>> something that happened to the other servers receiving updates. 
>> 
>> I would be very interested to hear from anyone that might have a clue 
>> where to start with this.  The error message is rather cryptic and I 
>> am at a loss to know where to start.  Any help would be greatly 
>> appreciated. 
> 
> 
> 


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