[Koha] Redirect loop in intranet at initial Koha install/setup

[Chris Cormack]

On 13 March 2012 10:56, jcoehoorn <jcoehoorn at york.edu> wrote:
> I'm a first time Koha user working through the instructions found here to get
> Koha 3.06.04 running on Cent OS 6.2:
>
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.6_on_Centos_6.2_i386
>
> I'm using CentOS because this needs to run under Hyper-V. I don't have a
> whole lot of linux experience.
> In spite of that, I've made it through the instructions and have things
> *almost* running. Almost.
>
> What happens is that when I try to visit the administration page (the final
> line in the instructions) I get stuck in an http redirect loop. Koha's
> normal/opac side of course shows that the site is in maintenance mode, as I
> would expect prior to installation. I had to troubleshoot a number of other
> issues to get that far, but I updated the instruction wiki as I went, so
> someone else following that guide should end up in about the same place I
> did.
>
> Searching around the web (including but not limited to this list), the
>
> [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
> 2012] 500.pl: DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: Table
> 'koha.systempreferences' doesn't exist at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm
> line 516.
> [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
> 2012] 500.pl: DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: Table
> 'koha.systempreferences' doesn't exist at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm
> line 516.
> [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02 2012] [error] [client 10.1.2.103] [Mon Mar 12 16:56:02
> 2012] 500.pl: Install required, redirecting to Installer at
> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 595.
>
>
The kohaversion value is stored in the database in the
systempreferences table. This doesn't exist, which means the web based
installer hasn't worked. The first thing it does is create the tables,
the fact this table doesn't exist means it hasn't run correctly.

Chris