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I've a question concerning a weird issue I never ran into before even though I am working with many servers for quite a long time.

So there is the cherokee web server that I compiled and installed with 

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Before this 'upgrade' I deleted the old version completely (also checked with finding tools) and backed up the existing configuration which I upgraded and copied back to its original folder later.

But the basic problem are two files: cherokee-worker and cherokee-admin. Those files were not copied into /usr/sbin/ correctly. To prove my suspicion I executed some commands:

/home/paul/build/cherokee/cherokee-1.2.1/cherokee/cherokee-worker -i
  >> Version: 1.2.1

cp /home/paul/build/cherokee/cherokee-1.2.1/cherokee/cherokee-worker /usr/sbin/cherokee-worker

/usr/sbin/cherokee-worker -i
  >> Vesion: 1.0.8

The same issue happens with cherokee-admin. The most weird thing is that if I replace the actual copy of cherokee-worker in /usr/sbin/ with a symbolic link to the working file in /.../build/../cherokee-1.2.1 it works!

rm /usr/sbin/cherokee-worker
ln -s /home/paul/build/cherokee/cherokee-1.2.1/cherokee/cherokee-worker /usr/sbin/cherokee-worker
/usr/sbin/cherokee-worker -i
  >> Version: 1.2.1

It seems like a hard copy of cherokee-worker/-admin isn't working properly. But how come?

Do you know what happens? I have absolutely no clue what's going on.

Thanks for your help in advance!

Paul

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There is a PPA repo for Cherokee. Makes installing and updating much easier. Just look at their mailing list. – Oli♦ Mar 1 '11 at 20:58

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You need to be root to run make install. From your question it is not clear whether you have the correct permissions when running it.

You should compile as a normal user, and install as root (also, you should use /usr/local as a prefix for everything that doesn't come from your distribution's package manager, but that's another debate):

make
sudo make install
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I know because otherwise it had printed out an error within the make install command. Sorry but this didn't help me at all. – Paul Engstler Mar 1 '11 at 18:13
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If you have previously installed cherokee from the ubuntu repositories, then that version was installed in /usr/sbin, and your manually compiled version will probably interfere badly with that 'official' installation. Make sure to remove the packaged version before trying to install a custom built copy.

apt-get remove cherokee

As far as it goes, I would recommend always using the version in the repositories unless you have a very good reason. That way, you will get updates automatically and won't have to fight with upstream bugs yourself. http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/cherokee

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This also didn't help me because I compiled cherokee from scratch since I am using it. I never installed it via dpkg or apt-get. – Paul Engstler Mar 1 '11 at 18:14

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