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New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27684] Tue, 20 September 2005 13:46 Go to next message
jonmoss is currently offline  jonmoss   United States
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I recently created a brand new webserver using FC4. Here's a link to my PHP info:

http://69.76.206.181/info.php

I'm attempting to install a brand new installation of FUDForum2 2.7.2 specifically. When I run install.php (after I've chmod 777 the pertinent folders and files), the second screen tells me:

Failed getting archive size from

Any suggestions?

Thanks and have a great day!

Jon Moss

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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27685 is a reply to message #27684] Tue, 20 September 2005 13:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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How big is install.php file? Did you upload it to the server in BINARY or ASCII (should be BINARY)?

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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27687 is a reply to message #27685] Tue, 20 September 2005 14:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jonmoss is currently offline  jonmoss   United States
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Here is a listing from my web server:

total 52K
-rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 45K Sep 1 08:31 install.php

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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27688 is a reply to message #27685] Tue, 20 September 2005 14:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jonmoss is currently offline  jonmoss   United States
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I was logged into the server as root and downloaded the tar gzipped file from this site. I extracted it and copied it to the web root folder I created for FUDForum.


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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27689 is a reply to message #27688] Tue, 20 September 2005 14:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The file is clearly too small, install.php should've been at least 1.4 megabytes, do you see forum_archive file in the install directory?

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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27690 is a reply to message #27685] Tue, 20 September 2005 14:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jonmoss is currently offline  jonmoss   United States
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I compared the size of install.php to the one I downloaded and it was off by more than 1 MB. So I re-copied install.php to web root, reset the permissions and re-ran install.php.

I got this error instead:

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /var/www/html/fudforum2/install.php on line 436

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: File exists in /var/www/html/fudforum2/install.php on line 436
ERROR: failed creating /usr/local/share/fudforum2/cache directory

Here is the listing from web root:

total 1.4M
-rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 1.4M Sep 20 09:04 install.php

Thanks and have a great day!

Jon Moss

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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27691 is a reply to message #27689] Tue, 20 September 2005 14:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jonmoss is currently offline  jonmoss   United States
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No, there is not an archive file in the folder

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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27692 is a reply to message #27690] Tue, 20 September 2005 14:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jonmoss is currently offline  jonmoss   United States
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Here is a listing from the data root:

total 32K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K May 22 23:28 info
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K Aug 31 17:21 man
drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4.0K Aug 31 20:03 photos
drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4.0K Sep 1 08:27 fudforum2
[root@mossweb share]# pwd
/usr/local/share

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Jon Moss

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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27693 is a reply to message #27692] Tue, 20 September 2005 14:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jonmoss is currently offline  jonmoss   United States
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I keep having to re-chmod the web root folder fudforum2 after I run (and fail) install.php.

Here is a before and after listing:

ls -lhtr
total 56K
drwxr-xr-x 6 apache apache 4.0K Aug 31 22:03 phpMyAdmin
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 95 Sep 1 08:43 info.php
drwxr-xr-x 6 apache apache 4.0K Sep 1 09:22 phpwebalbum
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4.0K Sep 1 09:24 mossfam
drwxr-xr-x 3 apache apache 4.0K Sep 1 09:24 raya
drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4.0K Sep 3 13:45 derek
drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4.0K Sep 20 08:41 fudforum2
[root@mossweb html]# ls -lhtr
total 56K
drwxr-xr-x 6 apache apache 4.0K Aug 31 22:03 phpMyAdmin
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 95 Sep 1 08:43 info.php
drwxr-xr-x 6 apache apache 4.0K Sep 1 09:22 phpwebalbum
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4.0K Sep 1 09:24 mossfam
drwxr-xr-x 3 apache apache 4.0K Sep 1 09:24 raya
drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4.0K Sep 3 13:45 derek
drwx--x--x 2 apache apache 4.0K Sep 20 08:41 fudforum2


Is this being caused by Apache? or SELinux?

Thanks and have a great day!

Jon Moss

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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27694 is a reply to message #27693] Tue, 20 September 2005 14:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Try to remove the directory entirely and install the forum to a new directory.

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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27696 is a reply to message #27694] Tue, 20 September 2005 15:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jonmoss is currently offline  jonmoss   United States
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I deleted the fudforum2 folder from /var/www/html/
I deleted the fudforum2 folder from /usr/local/share/

I created a new fudforum folder under /var/www/html/
I created a new fudforum folder under /usr/local/share/

I chgrp and chown on /var/www/html/fudforum to apache
I chmod both /var/www/html/fudforum and /usr/local/share/fudforum to 777

I re-ran install.php and got this error:


Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /var/www/html/fudforum/install.php on line 436

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: File exists in /var/www/html/fudforum/install.php on line 436
ERROR: failed creating /usr/local/share/fudforum/cache directory

And the permission for /var/www/html/fudforum have again been reset:

drwx--x--x 2 apache apache 4.0K Sep 20 10:05 fudforum

Thanks and have a great day!

Jon Moss

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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #27698 is a reply to message #27696] Tue, 20 September 2005 16:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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Can you modify the __mkdir() function inside install.php and make it print to screen the value of the $dir variable everytime it runs?

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Re: New Install of 2.7.2 fails [message #28002 is a reply to message #27698] Wed, 05 October 2005 12:18 Go to previous message
jonmoss is currently offline  jonmoss   United States
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I disabled (or actually told it to not enforce) SELinux and then I was able to install.

Thanks and have a great day!

Jon Moss

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