ahallez

Hello all,

I'm trying to install MOS 4.5 1.0.9 on a Windows 2000 IIS box.
When I first tried the install script, it pointed out two problems:
1. configuration file not writable.
2. session dir not writable.

So I changed the permissions for the mambo dir, but that didn't solve the first problem. I solved problem 2 by creating a session directory and changing php.ini (BTW what's the best location for this directory?).

Now I retried the install script. It worked well, except that I had to copy the configuration settings manually.
However when I try to surf to the site, I get a blank screen (page not found?). When I surf to the administration page everything works as normal and the configuration file is writable.

Any pointer to what's going on here?

Thanks in advance,
Axel Hallez

Raydian

check your $mosConfig_absolute_path and $mosConfig_live_site

Windows works well with just the / (forward slash) used with paths.

A little more info would be useful here (config , etc...).

ahallez

Hello,

Thanks for your reaction.

My setup is standard, I didn't change any of the default setting after the install procedure (see the transcript of my config file at the end of the post).

I have been fiddling around a bit and i see strange things.
When I open a new browser window (on localhost) and go to the homepage of the site, I get this error message:
PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 086D0AFD

When I go to the administrator first and ask for a preview in the menu or open the site from a remote machine, I am redirected to the installation directory (which I deleted after installation).

Any help would be very welcome.
Thanks in advance,

Axel Hallez

<?php
$mosConfig_editor = 'htmlarea2';
$mosConfig_offline = '0';
$mosConfig_host = 'localhost';
$mosConfig_user = 'mambo';
$mosConfig_password = '********';
$mosConfig_db = 'mambo';
$mosConfig_dbprefix = 'mos_';
$mosConfig_lang = 'english';
$mosConfig_absolute_path = 'D:/Websites/scoreexpress';
$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://194.78.21.84/scoreexpress';
$mosConfig_sitename = 'ScoreExpress';
$mosConfig_shownoauth = '0';
$mosConfig_emailpass = '1';
$mosConfig_offline_message = 'This site is down for maintenance.<br /> Please check back again soon.';
$mosConfig_error_message = 'This site is temporarily unavailable.<br /> Please notify the System Administrator';
$mosConfig_UseBanner = '1';
$mosConfig_lifetime = '900';
$mosConfig_MetaDesc = 'Mambo Open Source - the dynamic portal engine and content management system';
$mosConfig_MetaKeys = 'mambo, mambo open source, Mambo, Mambo Open Source';
$mosConfig_debug = '0';
$mosConfig_locale = 'en_GB';
$mosConfig_offset = '0';
$mosConfig_hideAuthor = '0';
$mosConfig_hideCreateDate = '0';
$mosConfig_hideModifyDate = '0';
$mosConfig_hidePdf = '0';
$mosConfig_hidePrint = '0';
$mosConfig_hideEmail = '0';
$mosConfig_enable_log_items = '0';
$mosConfig_enable_log_searches = '0';
$mosConfig_sef = '0';
$mosConfig_vote = '0';
$mosConfig_gzip = '0';
$mosConfig_multipage_toc = '0';
$mosConfig_allowUserRegistration = '1';
$mosConfig_error_reporting = '-1';
$mosConfig_link_titles = '0';
setlocale (LC_TIME, $mosConfig_locale);
?>

Raydian

It's been a long time since I've ran an IIS box.

Your settings look okay. It's strange that you're redirected to the installation dir, when you have deleted the install directory. That normally only happens when no configuration.php is found.

Do you have some error logs that you can view. This may help give some clues as to what is going on. Also, set your error_reporting to error_reporting = E_ALL; , if not already set to that.

This is looking like a path problem with IIS and maybe a problem with the PHP install.

Strange???

sinanata

loook man when you runned MSAS if you have IIS it doesnt works... you must uninstall IIS for make it working...

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Sinan Ata
Mambo Turkey
www.mambo.gen.tr

ahallez

Thanks for all the help guys.
In the end I found out it was a file access problem. I played around with the security settings, and now the site works OK.

Thanks again,
Axel Hallez

damapy

I have exactly the same problem could you let me know how to solve this?

ahallez

I added the user IUSR_<yourcomputername> (alias Internet Guest Account) with read, write, execute and list folder contents permissions on the sites directory (permissions the are inherited by the sites subfolders and files).

Hope this helps,

Axel Hallez