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Installing Tokyo Cabinet and Tokyo Promenade

Started to install Tokyo Cabinet and Tokyo Promenade. Info is here (in Japanese). Planing to move this blog to Tokyo Promenade if I succeed.

Requirements for installation: Linux 2.4+, gcc, make, zlib, bzip2. Make sure they are installed. Fro zlib, do

> sudo apt-get install zlib1g

Download the source file:http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/tokyocabinet-1.4.31.tar.gz. Untar

> sudo tar xzvf tokyocabinet-1.4.31.tar.gz
> cd tokyocabinet-1.4.31/

Configure

> ./configure

gave an error

configure: error: zlib.h is required

. Did

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Reran configure. Now

configure: error: bzlib.h is required

. Did

> sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev

. Dd

> make
> make check

Checking emits a lot of lines on the terminal screen, and takes some time. Feel even meticulous, but it's probably a good engineering practice to make sure everything works as it should. Need a coffee break After probably thousans of lines, got

#================================================================
# Checking completed.
#================================================================

Did

> sudo make install

Got

#================================================================
# Thanks for using Tokyo Cabinet.
#================================================================

OK

Now download TokyoPromenade here. See here for installation (in English). Untar

> sudo tar xzvf tokyopromenade-0.9.2.tar.gz

Did

> ./confiture
> make
> make check
> sudo make install

in seconds successfully. Create a base directory for CGI as

> sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/cgi-bin/tokyopromenade

After setting up the Apache site file at /etc/apache2/sites-available/sitefile3, accessing here gave me this page

Simple and sufficient! I like it

OK. What next? See here, for the instructions (in Japanese). Well, it doesn't explain how to register a user When tried with guest without a pasword, login was successful. But, how ca I create a user? Alright, I found it in a blog article here. I.e., admin/nimda for administrator. The top page for admin is

Hitting the "users" there gets