[geeklog-devel] 1.5 Installer stuff

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

Joe Mucchiello wrote:

> I don't put public_html under the geeklog directory so I end up on the 

> admin/install/index.php screen with this:

> Unable to locate Geeklog files

> The installation script was unable to locate critical Geeklog files. 

> This is probably because you have moved them from their default 

> location. Please specify the paths to the files and directories below:

>

well I do not think this can be avoided in any case.

> The entry field is small and my Unix path is over 100 characters. Not 

> convenient.

do you have the latest CVS? I I already made the fields longer 
yesterday. how wide was your field?

> It couldn't find db-config.php and said the path was incorrect. 

> Hitting the "back" button didn't replace /path/to/db-config.php with 

> the 100 characters I just typed. That was annoying.

well thats a browser-problem. If you use Opera I think it works.

> More annoying was the fact that the path was correct but db-config.php 

> was not writable. It was '644'. Setting '666' allowed me to continue. 

> I set it back to '644' and tried again and there was no problem this time.

well there should be a help displayed somewhere that says which files 
have to be writable. It should however discover that the file is there.

> Is there a clearstatcache() in the installer? There should be.

dunno.

> I put a / in the database prefix (by mistake) and received a cryptic 

> database error. That field should be validated.

>

>

> siteconfig.php needs the

>

> if (strpos ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'siteconfig.php') !== false) {

>     die ('This file can not be used on its own!');

> }

>

> or a

>

>    header('location: index.php');

noted.

> More fun: Go into Configuration and set "site enabled" to false.

> Now set it back to true....

will try it.

Oliver