A site I administrate has an existing forum up and running. We're trying to migrate to a new, dedicated hosting provider. Having difficulty diagnosing why the backup/copy/import installation wasn't working, I deleted the database and started over, with a brand new installation of Threads 6.2.2 (Yes, I know it's not current, but we want to get the existing setup working again before looking at any upgrades) and using the install.php script.
With some tweaks here and there, things went more or less fine, until the following two steps . . .
First, on the Step 5 portion, I get this: [] UBB.threads Installation Wizard
Step 5
Checking all path/url information. Please make sure you have all files uploaded, or you will get false reporing. NOTE: The first 3 might fail if PHP is unable to open files via a URL. If that is the case you may continue to the next step.
phpurl (http://69.50.194.231/~staticg/ubbthreads) UNABLE TO OPEN
images (http://69.50.194.231/~staticg/ubbthreads/images) UNABLE TO OPEN
styledir (http://69.50.194.231/~staticg/ubbthreads/stylesheets) UNABLE TO OPEN
path (/home/staticg/public_html/ubbthreads) PASSED
imagepath (/home/staticg/public_html/ubbthreads/images) PASSED
stylepath (/home/staticg/public_html/ubbthreads/stylesheets) PASSED
One or more of the above checks have failed. You might need to go back and verify your settings.
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Thinking that it might be ok, based on the message, I proceeded anyway, since those paths/urls should be accurate. On the database creation step, I got a couple of errors at the top, then when trying to run the newuser.php script, I get this:
[] Warning: main(/home/staticg/public_html/ubbthreads/languages/english/generic.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/staticg/public_html/ubbthreads/ubbt.inc.php on line 146
Warning: main(): Failed opening '/home/staticg/public_html/ubbthreads/languages/english/generic.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/staticg/public_html/ubbthreads/ubbt.inc.php on line 146
Warning: main(languages/english/newuser.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/staticg/public_html/ubbthreads/newuser.php on line 24[/]
I've triple-checked permissions, and I made a point of being absolutely positive that all non-image files were uploaded in ASCII mode. I know something's not configured right, and it's probably my fault, but I'm not clear what. Anyone able to shed some light on this for me?
If you need to know any information about the environment I'm working in, lemme know what you need and I'll try to provide it. I've been working on this for two days now, and simply don't understand why it's not working when it works perfectly on the old host. I suspect I'm too close to it and may be blinded to what detail(s) are awry.
