Re: [phpesp-general] Weird refusal to install

[Franky V. L. <lie...@te...>]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Peter Flynn <pf...@uc...> wrote:

> Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:23:50 +0000
>> Peter Flynn <pf...@uc...> wrote:
>>
>>  I'm trying to install phpESP 2.1.2 under RHEL5 with the default
>>> Apache 2.2.3 and PHP 5.1.6. I have had an older version of phpESP
>>> (1.8) running very successfully elsewhere under Fedora Core 4 for
>>> years, so I'll eventually want to import all the old data; but the
>>> problem right now is more baffling: installing the database, which
>>> went perfectly on the old machine. Procedure was:
>>>
>>>  1. detar the installation into the web server document root
>>>  2. check httpd.conf for .php (added AddType; SetOutputFilter not
>>> used) 3. set the ownership of the whole phpESP directory tree to
>>> apache 4. edit a phpESP.ini.php to set db_pass, date_format, and
>>> emails 5. edit mysql_create.sql password to match the db_pass in [4]
>>>  6. execute  mysql -u root -p < mysql_create.sql to set up database
>>>  7. log in with Firefox and change phpESP's root password
>>>  8. try to install, and I get
>>>
>>> Installing
>>> [ Install FAILED ]
>>> [ Initial data entering failed ]
>>> [ Version delete FAILED ]
>>> [ Version update FAILED ]
>>>
>>> I've obviously missed something, but what?
>>>
>>
>> Heh ... seems I missed something in the INSTALL file. Just omit step 5
>> and 6 (just create the db, don't enter any data in it).
>>
>
> But that's exactly what I did. I just created the empty db using
> mysql_create.sql (steps 5 and 6). If you omit this, you can't even start.
>
> You seem to be referring to mysql_populate.sql, which should not be run by
> hand, as it should get done through the web install interface.
>
> The problem is that it's not even getting this far: it's gagging on
> whatever it tries to do with schema.xml
>

oops ... sorry, that's what I meant :-) You got it right, and the README is
correct :-)
Since this fails, do you have any logging in apache? You might need to bump
up the php loglevel (in the php.ini file) first.
For comparing, I'll try a fresh install this evening.

Franky