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Installation debugging issues [message #10154] Wed, 21 May 2003 12:52 Go to next message
stevie is currently offline  stevie   United States
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Based on my recent experiences installing fudforum on a web host, I have two recommendations:

  • Evidently some web hosts don't permit mysql table locking, which results in a difficult to deal with installation problem. The installer checks for a lot of conditions, maybe it should check for this also if possible.

  • The installer does some tricky stuff for security reasons, making some fudforum folders accessible to the web server but not to the user. When using some web hosts, that may make it very difficult to debug problems or delete an unwanted installation. When fudforum is properly installed and working, it offers its own facility to manage those files - but if fudforum isn't working properly the user may have no good way to get into those folders. It would be great to have an external php script available to change the folders' owners so that a user could get to the files within so they could read, modify, or delete them.


Thanks! -Steve
Re: Installation debugging issues [message #10159 is a reply to message #10154] Wed, 21 May 2003 13:15 Go to previous message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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Having the installer check for LOCK permission is something I will look into adding. It's just that this issue has never come up before.

The RC2 includes un-install script and you can normally install right over the existing forum. Usually when installer itseld encounters a problem it will output a detailed error. In your situation it was not the case due to the 'locking' error and that will be addressed in future releases.


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