Trying to Install Safe Mode on Alterhosting.

[streetskater]

I'm trying to install the safe-mode yabbse on alterhosting.  mySQL is enabled as is PHP (version 4.1.2)

To start with I'm getting pages of errors --most crapping out on line 99.  Here's the beginning of the list.
Warning: fopen("./Settings.php", "w") - Permission denied in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/81-87-columbia-hgts.com/httpdocs/yabbse/install.php on line 97

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/81-87-columbia-hgts.com/httpdocs/yabbse/install.php on line 99

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/81-87-columbia-hgts.com/httpdocs/yabbse/install.php on line 99


Actually the entire remainder of the list is a this error message repeated:

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/81-87-columbia-hgts.com/httpdocs/yabbse/install.php on line 99


Any pointers?

[Jeff Lewis]

Chmod Settings.php to 666.

[streetskater]

That would seem like an obvious first step but so far I haven't found any way to get to a low enough level with Alterhosting to use a chmod command.  

Can I just write a .php to do it?

[Daniel D.]

Can't you use it within your FTP program ?

[streetskater]

Yeah, Actually I found a chmod command in the explorer window of Ws_ftp pro.  Pain in the ass.  it would be nice if I could just get down to UNIX with privilege to work on my own space on that Mickey Mouse server.

In the meantime the install script got into some kind of recurrisive loop and installed some unknown number of nested yabbase directories.  I can't delete non-empty directories with alterhost and I can't even get to the end of the structure yet.  Let's hear it for rm -r.  I'd kinda like to go in as superuser and issue it on the whole thing :-)  

[alexrolko]

if you used yabbse 1.1.0 safe-mode the installer included isn't for safe-mode.

if you need the safe-mode installer, get it here: http://24.102.92.108/1.1.0_installer.zip

[streetskater]

Thanks Alex.  I'm nearly up and running.  The database and all the tables have been created and I can even get to the first page of the forum.  However it's not finding it's image files and if you try to logon or register it goes to:
http://www.myserver.com/community/index.php?board=;action=register"

Obvously "myserver" should have been replaced when I configured everthing right at the end of install.    So that looks to me like a permission problem again-- with some install or config file.  It did manage to get the Board URL configured right.

If anyone is familiar enough with the php scirpts to point me in the right direction I'll be gratefull.  I'm just now going through the scripts looking for where it went south.     Thanks for the help so far.

[streetskater]

I've copied the correct instlall.php file, I've changed all the directory mods to 777 and all the file modes to 666.  I've drooped all the tables in the database and let the install recreate them. It goes through the whole install and everything looks great but then it does NOT configure the images URL or the faces URL and the logon and register url's are similary defaultijng to myserver.com/community. I'm pretty well out of options at this point and too tired to parse through the scripts looking for the problem.   Any help will be appreciated.  

[matant]

you must edit the file settings.pl yourself, by wordpad!

[Daniel D.]

You mean settings.php ? I think so...

[streetskater]

Yeah I figured as much.  He must think he's using a real UNIX scripting language like PERL or somthin  

[streetskater]

OK thanks Matant.  Definite progress.  I've got the urls mapping correctly by tweaking the setting.php file.  

But now it won't let me logon or register and no matter what I put in the username it keeps telling me that field is blank.  More TWEAKS are obviously going to be required!!!

This is payback for all the times I've trashed Microsoft  and declared that UNIX should have been the PC OS all along.    Joking aside MS has robbed more hours of my life then all the other OS's put together.   UNIX is pretty damn stable once you get used to it again.

So,  I'll keep plugging away but a few hints like the one Matant gave go a long way for me.