UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Stupid (?) Newbie Installation Question

Hi.

I've downloaded the wwwthreads PHP demo and am having problems getting it to work.

Firstly, the 'install' file tells me I need to edit $thispath to the location of my wwwthreads install, whilst 'main.inc.php' tells me I need to change it to the location of my PHP. Well, whatever, I tried both and it still didn't work What format should I be putting this in? For example, I set this to "/c:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs/wwwthreads". Is that right?

When I run createtable.php (I've created a table, etc), I get the following errors:

Warning: Failed opening '/c:/progra~1/apache~1/apache/htdocs/wwwthreads/config.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='') in main.inc.php on line 13

etc...

Looking at 'main.inc.php' again, line 13 is:

include("$thispath/config.inc.php");

Which suggests to me that my path is wrong. Well, it doesn't suggest, it's there in black and white :)

So, my question is: What format should my path be in, and what other variables do I absolutely have to change to make wwwthreads work?

Cheers!

The $thispath variable needs to be set to whatever directory your *.inc.php files are in. So, if you are on a Windows machine and your inc files like config.inc.php files are in the path c:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs/wwwthreads, then that is what you would put in there. Basically, whatever directory main.inc.php is in, that is what you would put in that variable.

As for other variables that are necessary, these would be the upper portion of the config.inc.php file. The variables dealign with the URL, database name/password, etc.

Nice one. That initial '/' was messing things up.. doh!

Ok, so it's working now. I changed $config['userpass'] to '1', so that I could specify a password rather than have it emailed to me. As I don't have any sort of email sending facility setup on this box, emailing a password would be bad :)

This didn't work. Not a huge problem. I connected to the database manually and added a password, but anyone who doesn't know how to do this is going to be stuck before they even start.

Thanks for the help.

Change "1" to "on" and see if that helps. []/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/]



- Six
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mYth productions

That fixed it. Cheers!

BUT... why oh why oh why have on/off and 1/0? And in the same configuration file?! Madness!

<grumble>

Don't fret, we're looking at a uniform configuration file where all the trigger for on and off will be identical acros all variables =)

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Shalazar
www.charisma-carpenter.com

After screwing up with the PERL install, I tried PHP....

What would this error message(s) mean on running createtable.php:
(what would a good installation script help a newbie like me :)

Thanks. Carl

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Warning: Failed opening '/usr/local/mysql/config.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /homepages/21/d24400447/htdocs/php/wwwthreads/main.inc.php on line 13

Warning: Failed opening '/usr/local/mysql/.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /homepages/21/d24400447/htdocs/php/wwwthreads/main.inc.php on line 14

Warning: Failed opening '/usr/local/mysql/theme.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /homepages/21/d24400447/htdocs/php/wwwthreads/main.inc.php on line 15

Warning: Failed opening '/usr/local/mysql/languages//generic.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /homepages/21/d24400447/htdocs/php/wwwthreads/main.inc.php on line 41

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: sql in /homepages/21/d24400447/htdocs/php/wwwthreads/main.inc.php on line 43

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Edited by caymuc on 02/10/01 04:32 PM.

Sounds like maybe you don't have the $thispath variable set right in main.inc.php. This variable needs to be set to the directory that main.inc.php resides in order for all of the other include files to be found.

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Scream
WWWThreads

thanks, great support.
I got a simple error right there.
I could fix it and it works now.
Thanks very much!
As I said, as soon as I get it running, I'll buy it. That's what I did today.