eestock again

[Ted Ozolins]

System gentoo-1.4


in make.conf:
USE="X gtk kde imap maildir oss alsa sdl xml tcltk 
php java postgresql pgsql
apxs DSO cups mysql apache"

I've emerged apache-2, postgresql, php-4 and 
mod_php-4 in the order listed.
I've installed eestock in /var/www/localhost/htdocs
then started postgresql with 
/etc/init.d/postgresql -start
then according to the eestock install directions:

#su -
#su - postgres
#createuser -P
answered the prompts  (and use a password)and 
received the CREATE USER
#createdb eestock
#cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs/eestock/admin/utils 
<enter>
#psql -d eestock -U eestock -f eeStock_init

This creates/fills all the fields/tables in 
database eestock.
I can browse the database with phppgadmin with no 
problem. I've included the -i in the postgresql 
startup script so that postmaster can receive 
tcp/ip connections.
In mozilla if I use http://localhost/eestock I get 
the page I expect to  see without any errors (this 
would indicate that postgres is being connected to 
postgresql via tcp/ip. There are two temporary 
users, root and admin with temp passwd root
admin. This is where the problem is, I type in 
root and root for passwd
and the root and **** disappear and nothing new 
happens. This should open an admin window but does 
not. For some reason the data base is not
read and thus no authentication takes place that 
would allow administration of eestock. I'm at a 
total loss, I've spent hours of reading the 
postgresql, php, apache docs. Googled and tried to 
follow any leads I've found but no joy. It seems 
that there might be a permissions problem, I'm no 
longer sure.

any suggestions welcome.

-- 
Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C