[Phpgroupware-users] Revisiting a installation problem...

[Stephen N. Stremmel]

Today we will revisit a problem that seems to affect a few people. After 
posting this I ran across several emails in this group and the bugs 
group pertaining to this problem, but no resolutions. Below is my 
original email:

---Original Email - Sent 05 Nov 2002---
Hello,
    I have looked through the the archives and have not found the 
answer to my problem. Some were close, but they related to the RPM 
installation, and not the tarball install.

Specifics:
RH 7.1
Apache-2.0.40
PHP-4.2.3
MySQL-3.23.51
PhpGroupware-0.9.14.000 tarball

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When I go to 'http://servername/phpgroupware/setup/', I get this error:

~~~~~
Template Error: filename: file ../setup/templates/default/head.tpl does 
not exist.
Halted.
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in 
/www/html/phpgroupware/phpgwapi/inc/class.Template.inc.php on line 440
~~~~~

class.Template.inc.php - Line 440:
$GLOBALS['phpgw']->common->phpgw_exit(True);
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I untarred the tarball in my DocRoot, changed the 'files' dir to the web 
server owner/group and chmod'd the 'files' to 700 (like in the docs). I 
then added a db to mysql, and created an owner/password for that new db 
(No Privileges). After the first time that setup didn't work, I chown'd 
the whole 'phpgroupware' dir to the server owner/group, but to no avail.
Both files exist. Do I need to tweak my PHP? I tried Register_Globals 
'On' and 'Off', with no change in error.

Any suggestions???

--End Original Email--

Since then I tried to update to the current version via CVS with no 
help. I tried with chmod -R 777 phpgroupware, again to no avail. The 
file (phpgroupware/setup/templates/default/head.tpl) exists, and I can 
open it in my browser window. Hmmm...
I tried to setup everything manually, but I ran into a problem. I read 
about some problems using relative paths (../setup/templates), so I 
figured that I would try to change them all into absolute paths. I was 
able to go through many of the files under 'setup/' and change the 
'../setup/' to an absolute path. After that, I was able to get it to 
show the first page of the setup script where you do the header 
passwords, etc (which were already filled in), and I was able to save 
the file, but when I hit continue, it just loops around to the same page 
again. I would LOVE to use this, but it is driving me nuts. My html/php 
skills are ok, but I can't seem to figure out where to go after the 
continue button. If I knew maybe I could try to manually configure the 
entire thing.
So, can someone either point me in the right direction to fix it, tell 
me WHAT to fix, or give me a roadmap to the installation (ie. 
manageheader.php, then the continue button calls ????.php, then that 
calls ???, etc...) so that I can try to manually configure it.
Shoot, maybe it has been fixed in CVS and I just didn't do the CVS part 
right.

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Thank You,
Stephen N. Stremmel
Baylor College of Medicine              Voice: (713)798-5666    
Sr. Systems Administrator               Email: address@hidden
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