ERRATA ------ Last updated 15/sep/2008 by cassio@ime.usp.br - item 8 of ADMIN.txt (thanks to Hamilton Moraes) runC.sh should be C.run runCpp.sh shold be Cpp.run runJava.sh should be Java.run - .htaccess If you have an .htaccess in the directory boca-1.3.1 which is preventing you to access the directory, just remove it. The purpose if the file is to make configurable the moment you want other people to be able to browse it. - file INSTALL.txt (thanks to Gerson Barreiros) If you have problems to authenticate while running php createdb.php, try to change the line $conf["dblocal"]="true"; of the conf.php file to $conf["dblocal"]="false"; - Virtual machine of maratona linux used as server (thanks to Marcello Fernandes) The script to make the VM become a server has a bug and is not setting properly the password of the postgres user. A fix is available at http://bombonera.ime.usp.br/linux/maratonalinux/errata/ - Problems connecting to the database or to load the web pages may be related to the permissions of the file conf.php. Such file must be readable by the owner of apache, usually www-data in debian/ubunutu like distros. You may, for example, run the commands => sudo /bin/bash => chmod 600 conf.php => chown www-data.www-data conf.php Note that you need first to enter the boca directory. - Encode of the database is set to be LATIN1. If you experience problems while creating the database, you may change the file db.php and replace the line which contains LATIN1 by UTF8.