major installation trouble

wskanaan · Post by **wskanaan** » Sun 23. Nov 2003, 06:17

hello everyone...

I have had this problem with several appliations... including wcms.

I tried the installation process acording to the steps given... but when I got to the step with using the "semi automated process" I started having trouble.

First... the setup file did not move to the next step... so after it made the tables it gave me back the database form... I got around that by manually writing the step number in the explorer bar.

Second... it did not recognize the directories... even though they are there and writable. It recognized only two ones.

Third... when I login I get a white page... nothing...
Fourth... the index page is also white. I checked the source... the html is there... but no content :

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<!--

phpwcms | open source web content management system

          developed by Oliver Georgi (webverbund.de)
          released under The GNU General Public License
          visit project page: http://www.phpwcms.de

//-->
<html>
<head>
<title>phpwcms :: web based content management system</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<script src="./phpwcms_template/inc_js/frontend.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./phpwcms_template/inc_css/">
</head>

<body text="#000000" link="#FF9900" vlink="#FF9900" alink="#FF9900" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="760">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="200"></td>
<td valign="top" width="11"><img src="img/leer.gif" width="11" height="1"></td>
<td valign="top" width="538"></td>
<td valign="top" width="10"><img src="img/leer.gif" width="10" height="1"></td>
<td valign="top" width="1"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>

Anyway... I was really interested in trying this cms....

Does anyone know how to fix this???
By the way... I am using XP with Apache to run this on my computer. All the scripts I write are working and error reporting is enabled.
If there is a way to allow debugging and reading errors I would be very happy to know about it...

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Sun 23. Nov 2003, 08:47

Which PHP version do you use? It seems to be that your system has problems with forms. Maybe!

Oliver

wskanaan · Post by **wskanaan** » Sun 23. Nov 2003, 08:55

php version 4.2.1

I will try upgrading...

But I don't think it is a problem with forms.... I have programmed an online catalogue that heavily depends on them... with no trouble at all...

anyway... I will try upgrading and see.

Thanks for reminding me of the version issue

I have been following upgrades to php but have not thought about upgrading myself...

wskanaan · Post by **wskanaan** » Sun 23. Nov 2003, 09:51

nope... no use...

I still have a blank page with the index page... but the login page gives this error after logging me in:

The requested URL /cms/wcms/localhostphpwcms.php was not found on this server.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Sun 23. Nov 2003, 09:55

You made an mistake when defining path values - check this.

1st time start it's normal that index.php returns only a white "empty" table. You have no template info predefined.

But check your paths. There - you have the error.

wskanaan · Post by **wskanaan** » Sun 23. Nov 2003, 14:46

You were right... in the admin part at least...

I didn't realise how things worked until I checked the setup functions. I left the root variable at the default ""> When I filled in the variable the login script started working.

But I still get an empty page with the index file. I tried to follow the way it works and found that the scripts are running fine... but for some reason it is not filling the content variables... I coudn't go too deep...

Anyway... has anyone had this problem before???

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Sun 23. Nov 2003, 16:01

you have to create a template.

wskanaan · Post by **wskanaan** » Wed 26. Nov 2003, 19:46

Thanks....

I had trouble at the beginning... because I was looking through specific things in the documentation... and got lost...

I will give it a go today and see what happens..