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

[Chris Weiss]

is register_globals on in your php.ini?

Stephen N. Stremmel (address@hidden) wrote*:
>
>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
>
>+++++++
>
>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);
>+++++++
>
>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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