Various Installation Problems

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 3:25 pm

Hi Raven,

I just installed my first virgin Cust Distro site and each page has ?> in the top left-hand corner. Despite this all pages so far appear to display correctly. What file do I need to edit to fix that?

The one exception is this: if I try to access the forums via the admin panel, I get a blank page with the ?> in the top right corner.

On the welcoming message with your banner etc, if I try to edit the message I get a page saying that some of the HTML tags are not allowed in phpNuke. Can I get around that?

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Thanks,
Ron.....

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:05 pm

Did you use the raven-nuke.sql to install the db tables? The ?> looks like it may be in the my_header.php or meta.php in the includes folder (more likely just a typo)

Now the HTML problem might be due to a word you are trying to use in a URL see this post: Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!

This is the first I've heard of the forum from admin doing this, make sure all the files were uploaded. Check admin/links/ to see if this file links.forums.php is there and modules/Forums/admin/index.php

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:31 pm

Thanks for your reply, Scott.

Nukeum66 wrote:

Did you use the raven-nuke.sql to install the db tables?

I used phpMyAdmin and installed raven-nuke.sql

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The ?> looks like it may be in the my_header.php or meta.php in the includes folder (more likely just a typo)

I thought that too but I am blowed if I can find it.

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Now the HTML problem might be due to a word you are trying to use in a URL see this post: Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!

All I have tried to do here is edit the original text (FP's "Congratulations! You have now a web portal installed!. You can edit or change thismessage from the Administration page. etc") from the message below Raven's message in the table until I have everything set up.

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This is the first I've heard of the forum from admin doing this, make sure all the files were uploaded. Check admin/links/ to see if this file links.forums.php is there and modules/Forums/admin/index.php

No, those files are all there.

I know this is supposed to be used for virgin installs (and this one was). The first time I installed it the other day was over the top of an existing V7 site and had no problems whatsoever. I don't understand why they should occur on a virgin install.

Ron...

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:41 pm

Did you get this from here? Laughing

I tested the release installing, reinstalling, and never ran into this.

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:45 pm

Yes, I downloaded it from here on the 24th.

They are only minor problems except for forums/admin.

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:50 pm

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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:55 pm

Have you installed ( Stop count increase for authors )?

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:02 pm

Nukeum66 wrote:

Have you installed ( Stop count increase for authors )?

Yes, I also have that installed on my other Raven distro site (in my profile) and it works OK.

I have removed it here though and didn't help.

Ron..

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:08 pm

Nukeum66 wrote:

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I just tried that without success.

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:13 pm

Nukeum66 wrote:

This is the first I've heard of the forum from admin doing this, make sure all the files were uploaded. Check admin/links/ to see if this file links.forums.php is there and modules/Forums/admin/index.php

I have just re-uploaded those files but that didn't help either.

Ron...

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:15 pm

Thanks for all your help, Scott Very Happy

, I am off to work now and will have to leave it until I get home tonight.

Cheers,
Ron...

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Ron,

If you do a virgin install and only modify the config.php, does the problem still happen?

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:50 pm

Raven wrote:

Ron,

If you do a virgin install and only modify the config.php, does the problem still happen?

This was a completely virgin install with only the config.php changed, Raven. The ?> and the missing forums admin panel have been there since the start.

I have made some mods to the theme but these were done after the installation.

I only have 28.8 dialup so to do it all again would take hours.

Ron...

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:55 pm

I am going to delete everything and start again. This will take some time and I will let you know when I have finished.

Thanks, Raven and Scott.

Ron...

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:56 pm

My guess would be either the config.php is messed up after editing it or not all files got uploaded. I know that literally hundreds of installs have been done both before and after release so the distro is sound (not that you are saying it isn't). My point is that it's got to be something that happened afterwards. Please zip your config.php file and email it to me. Thanks.

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 7:52 pm

Raven & Scott,

I just reloaded all the directories admin through languages and it looks as though everything is working now. There must have been an error somewhere in the original loading of the files.

That's a relief!

I appreciate your help so much. Thank you.

Ron...

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:51 pm

Oh, that's Great! Laughing