Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Arno, I need a little help...

[Arno H. <aho...@xm...>]

cc'ed to phpwiki-talk as it might be of interest to others as well ....
(sorry Steve, you receive it twice)

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Hi Richard,

I'm Arno, one of the developers of phpwiki. Steve asked me to help him tr=
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to figure out what your problem is.

=46rom the emails Steve sent me, it seems the problem is either very mund=
ane=20
or pretty sophistcated. To ensure that everything is going as it should b=
e,
please make the following steps and send us the results.

- which version of phpwiki are you using?
  I suggest downloading the nightly tarball from
  ftp://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/pub/phpwiki/phpwiki.nightly.tar.gz
  Untar it and try it out, still no page?

- send us the result from a call to phpinfo()

The following assumes a fresh install from the nightly tarball.

- in config.php line 4: change error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
  to error_reporting(E_ALL);

- in dbmlib.php line 35 remove the "@" in front of dbmopen()=20

- if you have time add the following prints to OpenDataBase() in dbmlib.p=
hp:
  (lines marked with ###########)

     function OpenDataBase($dbname) {
      global $WikiDB; // hash of all the DBM file names

      print "entered OpenDataBase($dbname)\n"; flush(); ############
      reset($WikiDB);
      while (list($key, $file) =3D each($WikiDB)) {
         print "trying db -$key-, file -$file-\n"; flush(); ##########
         while (($dbi[$key] =3D dbmopen($file, "c")) < 1) {
            print "result was -$dbi[$key]-\n"; flush(); ############
            $numattempts++;
            if ($numattempts > MAX_DBM_ATTEMPTS) {
               ExitWiki("Cannot open database '$key' : '$file', giving=20
up.");
            }
            sleep(1);
         }
         print "final key is -$dbi[$key]-\n"; flush(); ###########
      }
      print "leaving OpenDataBase()\n"; flush(); ###############
      return $dbi;
   }

- look at index.php again, do a "View HTML source" in your browser and
  send us what you see there (byte for byte)


This should give us a good clue, what is happening.
I'm concentrating on OpenDataBase(), because in one of your emails you wr=
ote
that you see the print before, but not the print directly after=20
OpenDataBase()

Btw, have you made sure that all files *and* directories are readable
by Apache? This includes lib/*, template/*, and pgsrc/*


Thanks for helping us debugging phpwiki
/Arno