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11-24-2004, 12:48 PM | #1 |
Green Mole
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A little confused
A little confused I have read the install instructions, searched the forums, scratched my head a few times, loaded files to server 4 times, well you get the picture. Everything I have installed on remote servers have had a newbie button to config the install. I guess my problem lies with, what happens after I load the files to my server via ftp, by going to admin/install.php it asks for user password, sorry but I am stuck, even after changing it in admin/config it does not work, how do I make the intial install connect to everything. BTW:: searching for 2 months for something like this and you have the only program out there with a robust feature zone. Looks great would like to get installed so I can "dig around"
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11-24-2004, 04:30 PM | #2 |
Purple Mole
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Install.php just builds your database for you, something that your web host may or may not allow to be done remotely. Try installing the database manually. Find the file called init_db.sql and run that from phpMyAdmin, or whatever tool your server has.
Change the default username and password in connect.php to whatever you want (sounds like you've already done this part), then use that same username and password when logging into the admin panel. If that still isn't enough to get you going, tell us step by step how you've tried to setup phpdig, and we'll see if we can point you in the right direction. |
11-24-2004, 05:12 PM | #3 |
Green Mole
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Thanks will try this now, hope to get it up and running tonight.
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11-24-2004, 05:27 PM | #4 |
Green Mole
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I have made the database connection, now what? This is what happens when I try to hit the search.php file..........or the index.php file
Unable to connect to database : Check the connection script. Last edited by badger; 11-24-2004 at 05:40 PM. |
11-24-2004, 05:41 PM | #5 |
Purple Mole
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Find the file called _connect.php and rename it to connect.php. Also, change values for the following to whatever you setup when you defined your phpdig database:
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define('PHPDIG_DB_PREFIX','<dbprefix>'); define('PHPDIG_DB_HOST','<host>'); define('PHPDIG_DB_USER','<user>'); define('PHPDIG_DB_PASS','<pass>'); define('PHPDIG_DB_NAME','<database>'); |
11-24-2004, 05:45 PM | #6 |
Green Mole
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The only thing I did not change was the top line about the dbprefix, and my host is localhost right?
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11-24-2004, 05:52 PM | #7 | |
Purple Mole
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11-24-2004, 05:56 PM | #8 |
Green Mole
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I am on a apache 2.0 with php and mysql with root priv. All my other stuff was localhost. This still is not up. Is the prefix holding me up? What are some examples, thanks very much for helping.
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11-24-2004, 06:06 PM | #9 |
Green Mole
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My permissions are rw-r-r on the 3 "includes" directory files as well, (connect config and common_words) and setup the 3 default chmods as per install instructions, and main directory to 777 ....All ok ?
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11-24-2004, 06:16 PM | #10 |
Purple Mole
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If you have other databases that specify localhost, then that is probably what this needs to be.
Regarding the prefix, that is something that you typically find on a shared server. For example, my database name is username_phpdig. Username is the dbprefix and phpdig is the database name. That's what goes into both those fields in connect.php. You can also tell this by looking at phpMyAdmin and seeing if database names are shown in the format username_dbname. Regarding directory permissions, if you have 777 on the three directories listed in the documentation that need that, you should be ok. Are you still getting errors? |
11-24-2004, 06:23 PM | #11 |
Green Mole
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[quote]Are you still getting errors?[End Quote] Yes Iam , same as before.
My server is VDS running Plesk 7.3 reloaded as control panel. Is safe mode an issue? and how would I know it is on? I mean how do I ask my server to give me my php config via a browser? Last edited by badger; 11-24-2004 at 06:28 PM. Reason: More info |
11-24-2004, 07:45 PM | #12 |
Purple Mole
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Did you just read the install directions and not the rest of the documentation? You can answer a lot of your questions by reading that.
Safe mode could possibly be an issue. To find out how that is set, copy this script into a .php file and run it from your browser: Code:
<?php phpinfo(); ?> |
11-25-2004, 05:39 AM | #13 |
Green Mole
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Yes same error, and I have read everything available, i::think, that would pertain to my installing this script. Here is my values from your suggestion to load a php test file. Thanks again.
----------------------start------------------- PHP Core Directive Local Value Master Value allow_call_time_pass_reference On On allow_url_fopen On On always_populate_raw_post_data Off Off arg_separator.input & & arg_separator.output & & asp_tags Off Off auto_append_file no value no value auto_prepend_file no value no value browscap no value no value default_charset no value no value default_mimetype text/html text/html define_syslog_variables Off Off disable_classes no value no value disable_functions no value no value display_errors On On display_startup_errors Off Off doc_root no value no value docref_ext no value no value docref_root no value no value enable_dl On On error_append_string no value no value error_log no value no value error_prepend_string no value no value error_reporting 2039 2039 expose_php On On extension_dir /usr/lib/php4 /usr/lib/php4 file_uploads On On gpc_order GPC GPC highlight.bg #FFFFFF #FFFFFF highlight.comment #FF8000 #FF8000 highlight.default #0000BB #0000BB highlight.html #000000 #000000 highlight.keyword #007700 #007700 highlight.string #DD0000 #DD0000 html_errors On On ignore_repeated_errors Off Off ignore_repeated_source Off Off ignore_user_abort Off Off implicit_flush Off Off include_path .:/usr/share/pear .:/usr/share/pear log_errors Off Off log_errors_max_len 1024 1024 magic_quotes_gpc On On magic_quotes_runtime Off Off magic_quotes_sybase Off Off max_execution_time 30 30 max_input_time 60 60 memory_limit 8M 8M open_basedir /home/httpd/vhosts/carpetbot.com/httpdocs:/tmp no value output_buffering no value no value output_handler no value no value post_max_size 8M 8M precision 14 14 register_argc_argv On On register_globals Off Off report_memleaks On On safe_mode On On safe_mode_exec_dir no value no value safe_mode_gid Off Off safe_mode_include_dir no value no value sendmail_from no value no value sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i serialize_precision 100 100 short_open_tag On On SMTP localhost localhost smtp_port 25 25 sql.safe_mode Off Off track_errors Off Off unserialize_callback_func no value no value upload_max_filesize 2M 2M upload_tmp_dir no value no value user_dir no value no value variables_order EGPCS EGPCS xmlrpc_error_number 0 0 xmlrpc_errors Off Off y2k_compliance On On ---------------------------end----------------------------- |
11-25-2004, 06:05 AM | #14 |
Purple Mole
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Since the "can't connect" error is what you're getting, it's obvious you have some settings incorrect in your database connection values. See Post #5 (above) and make sure those settings match the way you defined your database, then try again. That should get you past this one hurdle anyway.
As for safe mode, again, that could be a problem but I don't know for sure because I don't know how it would affect the server you're on. If that is a problem, read what the phpdig documentation says about that for a workaround. |
11-25-2004, 06:12 AM | #15 | |
Green Mole
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