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Posted by Jackson
Re: Installation documentation June 28, 2002 08:39AM |
Re: Installation documentation July 04, 2002 04:50AM |
Re: Installation documentation July 05, 2002 11:03AM |
Re: Installation documentation August 31, 2002 07:37PM |
I agree wholeheartedly, that the install instructions really bite.
I also believe that when someone is asking for help and states that the instructions aren't clear....coming on this board and saying "it's easy", etc. does absolutely NOTHING to help the person in need.
Now does anyone have a nice installation directions file that can be used by some who have some but limited knowledge with scripts?
Regards,
Harry
I also believe that when someone is asking for help and states that the instructions aren't clear....coming on this board and saying "it's easy", etc. does absolutely NOTHING to help the person in need.
Now does anyone have a nice installation directions file that can be used by some who have some but limited knowledge with scripts?
Regards,
Harry
Re: Installation documentation September 02, 2002 03:38PM |
Aide"S.O.S" September 05, 2002 01:27PM |
Re: Installation documentation September 10, 2002 07:30PM |
Re: Installation documentation October 31, 2002 11:50AM |
Re: Installation documentation December 02, 2002 05:06PM |
Re: Installation documentation December 02, 2002 06:59PM |
Registered: 22 years ago Posts: 6,050 |
Let's actually help each other December 19, 2002 10:23PM |
People!
There's a bit of "smartassing" going on here.
I didn't have that much trouble installing phorum but I would agree that the install.txt file gives no basic orientation to what should be a simple task.
It is so easy to those who know that they forget to explain some simple basics.
The first major point is that there is no magic command line install script ( no ./configure; make; make install ).
There a little manual stuff followed by some web stuff.
The major steps are:
1 - extract tarball under your webserver html document root ( or link the directory where you extract the tarball into your webserver using a <Directory> section in your Apache config file
2 - Create a database in mysql by hand
3 - Go to the set up URL on your web server to finish configuration
My relatively detailed steps were:
Download tarball ( stable ) from [phorum.org] to pe2300-1
Extract tarball and move under /usr/local/apache/htdocs, the root for my html files
Create a symbolic link ln -s phorum-3.3.2c/ phorum so that I can use plain old forum as my path in the URL
chown the directory structure to user the apache process runs as ( www )
chown -R wwwvphorum-3.3.2c
Create a database phorum in the local mysql server fully accessible to phorum_user ( camphor )
mysql -uroot -p
create database phorum;
GRANT ALL ON phorum.* to phorum_user@localhost identified by 'password'
quit
Try to go to URL [pe2300-1.meritusa.net] and use web interface to complete setup
Admin account: foradmin ( **** )
admin email admin.phorum@meritusa.net ( set up alias on my mail server to forward this to my real email.
Now I need to secure certain files and folders.
Now I need to understand what a Folder is ( as opposed to a Forum )
Cheers,
Ed McGuigan
There's a bit of "smartassing" going on here.
I didn't have that much trouble installing phorum but I would agree that the install.txt file gives no basic orientation to what should be a simple task.
It is so easy to those who know that they forget to explain some simple basics.
The first major point is that there is no magic command line install script ( no ./configure; make; make install ).
There a little manual stuff followed by some web stuff.
The major steps are:
1 - extract tarball under your webserver html document root ( or link the directory where you extract the tarball into your webserver using a <Directory> section in your Apache config file
2 - Create a database in mysql by hand
3 - Go to the set up URL on your web server to finish configuration
My relatively detailed steps were:
Download tarball ( stable ) from [phorum.org] to pe2300-1
Extract tarball and move under /usr/local/apache/htdocs, the root for my html files
Create a symbolic link ln -s phorum-3.3.2c/ phorum so that I can use plain old forum as my path in the URL
chown the directory structure to user the apache process runs as ( www )
chown -R wwwvphorum-3.3.2c
Create a database phorum in the local mysql server fully accessible to phorum_user ( camphor )
mysql -uroot -p
create database phorum;
GRANT ALL ON phorum.* to phorum_user@localhost identified by 'password'
quit
Try to go to URL [pe2300-1.meritusa.net] and use web interface to complete setup
Admin account: foradmin ( **** )
admin email admin.phorum@meritusa.net ( set up alias on my mail server to forward this to my real email.
Now I need to secure certain files and folders.
Now I need to understand what a Folder is ( as opposed to a Forum )
Cheers,
Ed McGuigan
Re: Installation Documentation Tips January 04, 2003 06:42AM |
Author: Martin H (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: 05-13-02 16:35
I'm trying to set up on my localhost. I've placed the entire contents of the extracted folder into a folder called phorum in my wwwroot on win2000 machine.
Then
Typed in [localhost]
This led to a message saying 'You need to go to the admin and fix your database settings. '
So I went to mySQL shell and created a db called phorum using 'create database phorum'. Then I went to admin and selected mySQL. Hitting submit leads to the message below:
Warning: fopen("./admin/settings/forums.php","w") - Permission denied in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\phorum\admin\functions.php on line 109
Could not open file ./admin/settings/forums.php. Please check the file permissions.
Anyone any ideas what I am doing wrong? Documentation would be really useful. The text file is really difficult to understand.
Many thanks
Martin
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Guys, that exatuly what happin to me, could anybody find a way to install it... what should i do with the permissions?????
please help me
Date: 05-13-02 16:35
I'm trying to set up on my localhost. I've placed the entire contents of the extracted folder into a folder called phorum in my wwwroot on win2000 machine.
Then
Typed in [localhost]
This led to a message saying 'You need to go to the admin and fix your database settings. '
So I went to mySQL shell and created a db called phorum using 'create database phorum'. Then I went to admin and selected mySQL. Hitting submit leads to the message below:
Warning: fopen("./admin/settings/forums.php","w") - Permission denied in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\phorum\admin\functions.php on line 109
Could not open file ./admin/settings/forums.php. Please check the file permissions.
Anyone any ideas what I am doing wrong? Documentation would be really useful. The text file is really difficult to understand.
Many thanks
Martin
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Guys, that exatuly what happin to me, could anybody find a way to install it... what should i do with the permissions?????
please help me
Re: Installation documentation January 04, 2003 12:24PM |
Registered: 22 years ago Posts: 6,050 |
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