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Started 1 year ago by wwc
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wwc
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I am unable to install bbPress. I upload the files to my Web server (into a directory named /bbpress/) then browse to that directory. The page comes up as expected, telling me that I have no bb-config.php. When I click the "let's get started" link, the following address appears in my address bar:

http://<host name>/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=1

But instead of the database configuration form, the page appears not to change. That is, I just see the "missing bb-config.php, click here to get started" page again.

Nothing of obvious interest appears in my Apache error log. Here's all I get:

[Mon Jan 12 15:22:19 2009] [error] [client <IP redacted>] PHP Notice: Undefined index: language in <web root redacted>/bbpress/bb-admin/class-install.php on line 337, referer: http://<host name>/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=1
[Mon Jan 12 15:22:19 2009] [error] [client <IP redacted>] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: l10n in <web root redacted>/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php on line 29, referer: http://<host name>/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=1
[Mon Jan 12 15:22:19 2009] [error] [client <IP redacted>] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: <web root redacted>/www/favicon.ico, referer: <host name>/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=1

I thought it was a problem with 0.9.0.4, so I tried using 0.9.0.3 instead. No luck.

I tried on a second Web server and the installation worked there. Both servers are running Apache 2.x, PHP 5.x, and MySQL 5.x on FreeBSD. Here are the differences in the version numbers:

Server where it doesn't work:

FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE
Apache 2.2.8
PHP 5.2.8
MySQL server 5.0.51a

Server where it does work:

FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
Apache 2.1.9
PHP 5.2.8
MySQL 5.0.27

The two servers' Apache configurations are very similar, if not identical. Before I start comparing my httpd.conf files line by line, perhaps someone can point me in the right direction. Any suggestions or clues?

Posted 1 year ago #
hoppie
Member

I have no clue whether this will help you, and I guess not. But who knows.

I was also stuck with a stubborn refusal of the installer to progress beyond the very first page (zero). No error message, no nothing. Just would not advance.

After removing all stuff and retrying, and failing again, and making all kinds of increasingly desperate Unix file permission changes, I suddenly remembered that I had just installed MySQL for the first time (I am a PostgreSQL guy). Although the server and client work perfectly, I didn't install the PHP5 libraries for it! Duh..

$ sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
$ sudo invoke-rc.d apache2 reload

et voila...

Hint to bbPress developers: add that silly check for the MySQL PHP lib... easily done, and another problem solved.

Jeroen

Posted 1 year ago #
wwc
Member

Hmm, it doesn't look like I have the PHP MySQL libraries installed. I would expect that to generate a meaningful error message, but perhaps not. I've asked my administrator to install the libraries, and I'll let you know if it helps.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Posted 1 year ago #
wwc
Member

Thanks, hoppie, everything works now! I found some code in bbPress that looks like it's meant to warn users when the PHP MySQL libraries are missing, but I wasn't getting the warning message. I'll look into filing a bug report about this.

Posted 1 year ago #
DTI
Member

I can't pass step 1 , same yours.

After using the suggestion commands:

$ sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
I got a message about, " sudo: apt-get: command not found"

$ sudo invoke-rc.d apache2 reload
I got a message about, " sudo: invoke-rc: command not found"

I use CentOS 5 Linux
MySQL 5.0.45
PHP 5.1.6
Apache
in my server.

What's wrong for me? Please give some helps, I take three days to install and still can't solved it.

Posted 1 year ago #
chrishajer
Moderator

On CentOS, you probably want rpm or the yum front end to it. Try this:

yum install php5-mysql

Maybe you need sudo in front of that command, depending on your system configuration. In that case sudo yum install php5-mysql.

That should install the package for you on CentOS.

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=49482&topic_id=14408

Posted 1 year ago #
chrishajer
Moderator

For reloading Apache after installing php5-mysql, you might end up doing this on CentOS:

sudo /sbin/service apache2 restart
or
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
or even
sudo /usr/sbin/apache2ctl graceful

One of those should restart the apache2 daemon.

Posted 1 year ago #
DTI
Member

Thanks, Chrishajer. I followed your suggestion to install the php-mysql, but it was already installed.
And I use sudo /sbin/service apache2 restart etc. commands to restart Apache, it prompts: command not found.
So I use: /sbin/service httpd restart to restart Apache.

But I still stuck on the step 1. Could you give me more help?

Posted 1 year ago #
DTI
Member

I don't like to take time to stuck step 1.

1. Can I create a database by myself?
2. To edit the bb-config-sample.php file using this database name, username and password.
3. To change the name of bb-config-sample.php into bb-config.php .
4. Does it get more problems in future when I do above steps?
5. Can I use localhost in host name? ( http://localhost/mrm/forum_bam/bb-admin/install.php)

Please ...

Posted 1 year ago #
Sam Bauers
Key Master

You can safely create your own config by copying from bb-config-sample.php

You then ned to go back and complete the installation (which bbPress forces you to do).

Probably better to use your IP address or 127.0.0.1 as the hostname, but this is highly dependent on your Apache config.

Posted 1 year ago #
DTI
Member

But after renamed the bb-config-sample.php into bb-config.php, I got a prompting "An invalid configuration file was found at bb-config.php the installation cannot continue."

Why does this installation is difficulty in my computer? Still to stuck installation step 1.

Posted 1 year ago #
chrishajer
Moderator

> 1. Can I create a database by myself?
Yes, you need to actually.

> 2. To edit the bb-config-sample.php file using this database name,
> username and password.
Yes.

> 3. To change the name of bb-config-sample.php into bb-config.php .
Yes.

> 4. Does it get more problems in future when I do above steps?
No.

> 5. Can I use localhost in host name?
> ( http://localhost/mrm/forum_bam/bb-admin/install.php)
I think so. I thought sometimes you need to do localhost.localdomain but I can't recall when that was the case.

If you are going to copy over the bb-config-sample.php to bb-config.php, you need to insert the proper values in the file. Otherwise, the config file is invalid, as it's telling you right here.

Posted 1 year ago #
ctsttom
Member

I am having the same problem on a fresh install and have for a long time, and the command 'sudo yum install php5-mysql' says no package php5-myqsl available. Nothing to do.

[root@www httpdocs]# sudo yum install php5-mysql
base | 2.1 kB 00:00
updates | 1.9 kB 00:00
addons | 951 B 00:00
extras | 1.1 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package php5-mysql available.
Nothing to do

Posted 1 month ago #
chrishajer
Moderator

ctsttom, what is your operating system? I'm sure we can find a php5/mysql package for you.

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