asche

I just tried to install XOOPS with Fantastico (cpanel).
installation path:
/public_html/html
-> when asked for installation path I added /html/

problem:
When calling my website with http://www.volksbegehren-mobilfunk.de
- I can See Startpage with login, but no colours, etc.
- when trying to login I receive error:
The requested URL /~mbf/html/html/user.php was not found on this server.
- all links are calling for directory /html/html/ instead of /html/

what I tried:
- I looked up mainfile.php and found all paths leading to:
'http://volksbegehren-mobilfunk.de/html'
-> it should be allright to have these settings, when installing in / public_html / html / ?

Anybody knows? Maybe this is a very basic question and I will try to check myself. But if it is so easy to make a mistake in "standard install" via cpanel, then maybe more people have the same problem?

PS: Anybody knows best practice for deinstallation/reinstallation of XOOPS (Fantastico does not find my first installation). Do I just have to delete html directory, or are there any other files (I have seen one called fantastico?).

David

it looks like it can't find the theme that the database is saying it should use.

my suggestion though, is once you get this removed, install it via the FTP method. Fantastico is notorious for screwing up xoops installations. You're better off installing manually.

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Kickersny.com

when specifying the directory via Fantastico, you include neither leading nor trailing slashes. So you should have put simply "html".

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asche

I only entered html as the installation directory, nothing else.

installation path as shown during installation:
"The full URL to this installation of Xoops: http://volksbegehren-mobilfunk.de/html/"
result when I call url -> The requested URL /~mbf/html/html/ was not found on this server.

In my mainfile.php it says:
define('XOOPS_ROOT_PATH', '/home/.../public_html/html');
define('XOOPS_URL', 'http://volksbegehren-mobilfunk.de/html');


Maybe uploading and installing XOOPS by user is even more straightforward than using cpanel scripts (I tried a couple of times, also running in one or the other (path related) problem).

I just want to check out the fantastico install and learn if it is "compatible" with the "upload method" you described. If somebody can straighten out this path-problem (links on startpage calling /html/html/ instead of /html/) I will post "best practices" comparing "user installation" and "cpanel instalation".

David

mainfile is fine, it's something in the database that is screwed up

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asche

What do you thin can be screwed up with my database? I thought the database has nothing to do with my directory paths?

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Now I tried the upload and install method (not via cpanel with fantastico, only creating database and user via cpanel) and I still have a similar problem.

When I call my website:
http://www.mobilfunk-volksbegehren.de/
the installation page is displayed again.

I suppose that my Xoops installation is not recognized all right, because in index.php it says:

/**
* redirects to installation, if xoops is not installed yet
**/
include "mainfile.php";

Does that mean, that my mainfile (which is in directory html -> this directory is created by default when uncompressing tar.gz file) is not found, even I can see it in dir / www / html / ?

One confusing thing:
I put tar.gz in /public_html/ and uncompressed -> but there is no html directory in /public_html/.
Finally I found my html dir installed in dir /www/ which is parallel to /public_html/.

Anybody knows why the Xoops-2.0.10RC2.tar.gz file was not uncompressed into /www/htm/ and not into /public_html/htm/. What is this www dir for?
Is it something special with surpass?

David

It looks correct now, except for the fact that it's got the ip address instead of the domain name.

Your site theme is defined in the database. It didn't look like it could find the theme.

Still, installation via fantastico is not recommended by me, due to the many problems I and others have had with it installing xoops. What do you mean by that file not being uncompressed into the the public_html folder? You should uncompress it on your computer, and FTP only the files in the html directory to whever you want the site to show (if you want it on your root, you upload it to www).

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