Problem with Psiphon

Davis, are you running a default web server on your system?

Psiphon installs it's own version of Apache httpd in the user specified directory which might conflict with any already existing web-service but it should not attempt to bind to port 80.

Make sure that you run the correct "apachectl" command i.e. 'sudo <PSIPHON_INSTALL_DIR>/apache2/bin/apachectl restart' not the default "apachectl" which might be binded to your existing Apache installation.

Another thing to look for is to check whether /var/log directory exists and if there are any psiphon-httpd-*.log files to make sure there no write permissions conflicts.

Thanks, I'll try to see if I can solve the problem based on your advice

I have one more problem though. When the install finished it said something along the lines of

"make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop."

Would that be contributing to the problems? I'm sorry that I'm not experienced with Linux OS; I haven't used it much and only wanted it for Psiphon

Hi David. It looks like there is either something missing from the
installation package
or you are doing installation in the wrong directory.

The best way to help you is to see the actual output of the installation
process.

To capture the output you can use Linux "script" utility like following

1. Type "pwd" in the command line
and take a note of the directory you are currently in.

2. Type in the command line "script psiphon_install.txt" and hit
'Enter' before you run
installation script.

3. Once the installation is finished hit 'CTRL-D'. That will stop the
'script' utility execution.
Now there will be a log file "psiphon_install.txt' in the very same
directory you took a
note of at step 1.

4. Please, paste the file's content here on launchpad

PS: all the commands have to be typed in without quotes, i.e.

$pwd
$script psiphon_install.txt

On 1 June 2011 22:15, David Nyambi <email address hidden>wrote:

> Question #158503 on psiphon changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/psiphon/+question/158503
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> David Nyambi is still having a problem:
> Thanks, I'll try to see if I can solve the problem based on your advice
>
> I have one more problem though. When the install finished it said
> something along the lines of
>
> "make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop."
>
> Would that be contributing to the problems? I'm sorry that I'm not
> experienced with Linux OS; I haven't used it much and only wanted it for
> Psiphon
>
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