[phpesp-general] (no subject)

[Sunil J. <pav...@co...>]

Gregg:  hi.  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.  Indeed by 
changing the configuration options for use authentication in the 
phpESP.ini.php file I was able to resolve the problem.  Silly me, I had 
not changed the MySQL database details!  With that change in place, the 
problem is resolved.  Here is a log of the problem and solution.  
Probably very basic for most phpESP users, but if a newbie stumbled in 
installation, this might help:

Installing phpESP on a webserver running PHP in Apache module instead 
of CGI

Problem:  After uploading the software, and going to the admin directory

> http://...../phpESP/admin/
>

an popped up {Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal 
error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request}

A quick check of test.php showed

> PHP information
> ....
> SAPI: cgi
> .....

Gregg informed me that the problem is that phpESP requires PHP to be 
running in CGI mode.  The work around to get it working on PHP running 
in Apache module is to disable the authentication in the phpESP.ini.php 
file in the admin directory.  The two lines that I changed were the 
following:

> // Use authentication for designer interface (I changed it from true 
> to false) (BOOLEAN)
> $ESPCONFIG['auth_design'] = false;
>
> // Use authentication for survey responders (I changed it from true to 
> false) (BOOLEAN)
> $ESPCONFIG['auth_response'] = false;
>
>

Then, i created a database one my webserver, and changed the 
information related to the MySQL host, the username, the password and 
database name in the same file.

Uploading this file to the admin directory and going back to 
http://....phpESP/admin this time brought up the phpESP management 
page.  Problem solved.

One additional problem remains:  Protecting the admin directory using 
htaccess.  To protect the admin directory, i used one of the many 
htaccess password generators available freely on the web.  the one i 
used is

http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/htaccess-generator.shtml

One generates a script for "htaccess" and an encripted password for the 
"htpasswd" file using the generator.  Both files are saved as text 
files locally, and uploaded in ASCII format to the admin directory.  
Once there, the files are renamed to include a "period" before the file 
name and removal of .txt suffix [ .htaccess and .htpasswd ] which 
renders the files invisible.  The admin directory is now password 
protected.

Thanks for your help.
-Sunil