Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Installation problems

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Malcolm Ross Kinsella Ryan schrieb:
> Okay, I've finally bit the bullet and decided to install Phpwiki 1.3.7.
> I'm having trouble with database selection. I'm running on a machine
> administered by my university. I believe it is Debian Linux, but I'm 
> not sure what release. 
> 
> I don't have access to a MySQL server or the like at the moment, so I've
> been trying it out using the simpler alternatives.
> 
> For all of the 'dba' style databases, I get a message of the form:
> 
> "lib/DbaDatabase.php:38: Fatal[256]: dba_open(pages/wiki_pagedb.gdbm,c): No such handler: gdbm"
> which is odd, as we do seem to have gdbm installed, as far as I can tell.

Setup a page containing
   <?php phpinfo() ?>
browse it, and look at the output of the "dba" section.

I have:
   "DBA support 	       | enabled"
   "Supported handlers  | cdb cdb_make db3 inifile flatfile"

This is default on Windows. On Linux usually gdbm is the best, but for 
some reason gdbm is not installed for you, but php_dba.so seems to be 
installed.
Try any of your supported handlers.

> So I tried a flat-file approach. Now it did the whole "loading up a 
> virgin wiki" thing and created lots of pages the designated directory,
> but when you try to display any of them, the page comes up blank 
> ("View source" shows it is just "<html><body></body></html>").

Thanks for this report. I'll look into the flatfile problems, as soon as 
my mysterious nameserver problems are fixed.

BTW: If I find no more problems and my net is working again, I'll 
release 1.3.8 this night, since my fixme list is empty now.
-- 
Reini Urban
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