Re: [Webcollab-users] Installation/Setup Help Needed

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Andrew Simpson wrote:

> I'm a bit confused as to what you've done to get to this point.

Andrew,

   I apologize for my brevity and lack of connection. Very briefly, I did not
have php installed on this box and that meant that trying to log in to the
setup page resulted in a blank page. It took me most of yesterday to figure
out how to properly re-build the Slackware php-4.3.10 package to include
postgres support (and remove imap since we use pop3). Anyway, that was
accomplished, but I could not successfully log in using the default "admin"
and "admin123" on the initial setup.php page.

> That said, it sounds like the config file has been altered at least
> partially. Go into [webcollab]/config/config.php and change the value
> associated with 'DATABASE_NAME' to "" (null). This will allow setup to run
> without requesting a password.

   That did the trick. I had the database name, username and password entered
in the file manually. Aparently that was the wrong thing to do. As soon as I
removed the three strings, webcollab took the same information and I went on
from there. It's up and running now.

   So, back to reading the Linux Journal article to learn how to use it now
that it's working.

   Thank you very much for both the immediate pointer that solved the problem
and for creating a tool that will help us coordinate and be productive
despite the long distances that separate most of us.

Rich

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