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2002-10-11
2002-10-15
  • matthew reynolds

    three months of trying off and on, and still haven't gotten past a blank install page, but then i probably shouldn't be admitting this in public ;)

    1. i do not have root access. is it possible to successfully install phpbt without it?  my current configuration can be seen at http://googlicious.com/mombugs/info.php. (apache1.3.27/php 4.2.3)

    2. i think i have smarty installed because i no longer see the "smarty not installed" page. it stopped showing up when i changed the path declaration at the beginning of install.php. is this a reasonable assumption? i do see the install.php page.

    3. i have (via .htaccess) added the path to the pear file i found on my server. i was expecting a pear directory, but found only a file named pear in /usr/local/bin. is this correct?

    4. i have chmod 777 the entire directory. when i submit install.php, i get a blank page and nothing written to config.php. anybody know what this indicates?

     
    • matthew reynolds

      i think i've narrowed this down to a pear problem. either it is not installed on my server, or i'm specifying the path incorrectly.

       
    • Benjamin Curtis

      Benjamin Curtis - 2002-10-14

      Yup, from what you have said, pear is not installed correctly.  Somewhere in your include path needs to be  a pear directory with php files such as DB.php, etc.

      The code in cvs right now includes the necessary pear files with the distribution.

       
    • matthew reynolds

      i just did an install from cvs and everything worked right out of the box....

       
      • Benjamin Curtis

        Benjamin Curtis - 2002-10-15

        Good to know -- sorry about the hassles!

         

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