Hello all,

I’m seeing the same problem as reported in this older thread where after unzipping the bbPress archive on my server and hitting the default page, the “let’s get started” link doesn’t do anything. Per recommendation I’ve gathered PHP info from my server. With the minimal installation instructions, I don’t even know where to begin troubleshooting, so any assistance would be much appreciated.

PHP Version 4.3.9

System Linux dingdong.kinetictide.com 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Aug 12 09:39:11 CDT 2006 i686

Build Date Jul 12 2006 13:43:33

Configure Command ‘./configure’ ‘–build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu’ ‘–host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu’ ‘–target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu’ ‘–program-prefix=’ ‘–prefix=/usr’ ‘–exec-prefix=/usr’ ‘–bindir=/usr/bin’ ‘–sbindir=/usr/sbin’ ‘–sysconfdir=/etc’ ‘–datadir=/usr/share’ ‘–includedir=/usr/include’ ‘–libdir=/usr/lib’ ‘–libexecdir=/usr/libexec’ ‘–localstatedir=/var’ ‘–sharedstatedir=/usr/com’ ‘–mandir=/usr/share/man’ ‘–infodir=/usr/share/info’ ‘–cache-file=../config.cache’ ‘–with-config-file-path=/etc’ ‘–with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d’ ‘–enable-force-cgi-redirect’ ‘–disable-debug’ ‘–enable-pic’ ‘–disable-rpath’ ‘–enable-inline-optimization’ ‘–with-bz2’ ‘–with-db4=/usr’ ‘–with-curl’ ‘–with-exec-dir=/usr/bin’ ‘–with-freetype-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-png-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-gd=shared’ ‘–enable-gd-native-ttf’ ‘–without-gdbm’ ‘–with-gettext’ ‘–with-ncurses=shared’ ‘–with-gmp’ ‘–with-iconv’ ‘–with-jpeg-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-openssl’ ‘–with-png’ ‘–with-pspell’ ‘–with-xml’ ‘–with-expat-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-dom=shared,/usr’ ‘–with-dom-xslt=/usr’ ‘–with-dom-exslt=/usr’ ‘–with-xmlrpc=shared’ ‘–with-pcre-regex=/usr’ ‘–with-zlib’ ‘–with-layout=GNU’ ‘–enable-bcmath’ ‘–enable-exif’ ‘–enable-ftp’ ‘–enable-magic-quotes’ ‘–enable-sockets’ ‘–enable-sysvsem’ ‘–enable-sysvshm’ ‘–enable-track-vars’ ‘–enable-trans-sid’ ‘–enable-yp’ ‘–enable-wddx’ ‘–with-pear=/usr/share/pear’ ‘–with-imap=shared’ ‘–with-imap-ssl’ ‘–with-kerberos’ ‘–with-ldap=shared’ ‘–with-mysql=shared,/usr’ ‘–with-pgsql=shared’ ‘–with-snmp=shared,/usr’ ‘–with-snmp=shared’ ‘–enable-ucd-snmp-hack’ ‘–with-unixODBC=shared,/usr’ ‘–enable-memory-limit’ ‘–enable-shmop’ ‘–enable-calendar’ ‘–enable-dbx’ ‘–enable-dio’ ‘–enable-mbstring=shared’ ‘–enable-mbstr-enc-trans’ ‘–enable-mbregex’ ‘–with-mime-magic=/usr/share/file/magic.mime’ ‘–with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs’

Server API Apache 2.0 Handler

Virtual Directory Support disabled

Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc/php.ini

Scan this dir for additional .ini files /etc/php.d

additional .ini files parsed /etc/php.d/ldap.ini

PHP API 20020918

PHP Extension 20020429

Zend Extension 20021010

Debug Build no

Thread Safety disabled

Registered PHP Streams php, http, ftp, https, ftps, compress.bzip2, compress.zlib

This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:

Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

PHP Credits

Configuration

PHP Core

Directive Local Value Master Value

allow_call_time_pass_reference Off Off

allow_url_fopen On On

always_populate_raw_post_data Off Off

arg_separator.input & &

arg_separator.output & &

asp_tags Off Off

auto_append_file no value no value

auto_prepend_file no value no value

browscap no value no value

default_charset no value no value

default_mimetype text/html text/html

define_syslog_variables Off Off

disable_classes no value no value

disable_functions no value no value

display_errors Off Off

display_startup_errors Off Off

doc_root no value no value

docref_ext no value no value

docref_root no value no value

enable_dl On On

error_append_string no value no value

error_log no value no value

error_prepend_string no value no value

error_reporting 2047 2047

expose_php On On

extension_dir /usr/lib/php4 /usr/lib/php4

file_uploads On On

gpc_order GPC GPC

highlight.bg #FFFFFF #FFFFFF

highlight.comment #FF8000 #FF8000

highlight.default #0000BB #0000BB

highlight.html #000000 #000000

highlight.keyword #007700 #007700

highlight.string #DD0000 #DD0000

html_errors On On

ignore_repeated_errors Off Off

ignore_repeated_source Off Off

ignore_user_abort Off Off

implicit_flush Off Off

include_path .:/usr/share/pear .:/usr/share/pear

log_errors On On

log_errors_max_len 1024 1024

magic_quotes_gpc Off Off

magic_quotes_runtime Off Off

magic_quotes_sybase Off Off

max_execution_time 30 30

max_input_time 60 60

memory_limit 8M 8M

open_basedir no value no value

output_buffering no value no value

output_handler no value no value

post_max_size 8M 8M

precision 14 14

register_argc_argv On On

register_globals Off Off

report_memleaks On On

safe_mode Off Off

safe_mode_exec_dir no value no value

safe_mode_gid Off Off

safe_mode_include_dir no value no value

sendmail_from no value no value

sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

serialize_precision 100 100

short_open_tag On On

SMTP localhost localhost

smtp_port 25 25

sql.safe_mode Off Off

track_errors Off Off

unserialize_callback_func no value no value

upload_max_filesize 2M 2M

upload_tmp_dir no value no value

user_dir no value no value

variables_order EGPCS EGPCS

xmlrpc_error_number 0 0

xmlrpc_errors Off Off

y2k_compliance On On

apache2handler

Apache Version Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)

Apache API Version 20020903

Server Administrator root@localhost

Hostname:Port dingdong.kinetictide.com:0

User/Group apache(48)/48

Max Requests Per Child: 4000 – Keep Alive: off – Max Per Connection: 100

Timeouts Connection: 120 – Keep-Alive: 15

Virtual Server No

Server Root /etc/httpd

Loaded Modules core prefork http_core mod_so mod_access mod_auth mod_auth_anon mod_auth_dbm mod_auth_digest util_ldap mod_auth_ldap mod_include mod_log_config mod_env mod_mime_magic mod_cern_meta mod_expires mod_deflate mod_headers mod_usertrack mod_setenvif mod_mime mod_dav mod_status mod_autoindex mod_asis mod_info mod_dav_fs mod_vhost_alias mod_negotiation mod_dir mod_imap mod_actions mod_speling mod_userdir mod_alias mod_rewrite mod_proxy proxy_ftp proxy_http proxy_connect mod_cache mod_suexec mod_disk_cache mod_file_cache mod_mem_cache mod_cgi mod_perl sapi_apache2 mod_python mod_ssl

Directive Local Value Master Value

engine 1 1

last_modified 0 0

xbithack 0 0

Apache Environment

Variable Value

HTTP_HOST dingdong.sas.noklab.net

HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive

HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5

HTTP_ACCEPT application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip,deflate,bzip2,sdch

HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-US,en;q=0.8

HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3

PATH /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

SERVER_SIGNATURE <address>Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) Server at dingdong.sas.noklab.net Port 80</address>

SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)

SERVER_NAME dingdong.sas.noklab.net

SERVER_ADDR 10.48.82.2

SERVER_PORT 80

REMOTE_ADDR 10.162.161.23

DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/html

SERVER_ADMIN root@localhost

SCRIPT_FILENAME /nethome/sweng/arich/public_html/forum/phpinfo.php

REMOTE_PORT 2046

GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1

SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1

REQUEST_METHOD GET

QUERY_STRING no value

REQUEST_URI /~arich/forum/phpinfo.php

SCRIPT_NAME /~arich/forum/phpinfo.php

HTTP Headers Information

HTTP Request Headers

HTTP Request GET /~arich/forum/phpinfo.php HTTP/1.1

Host dingdong.sas.noklab.net

Connection keep-alive

User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5

Accept application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate,bzip2,sdch

Accept-Language en-US,en;q=0.8

Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3

HTTP Response Headers

X-Powered-By PHP/4.3.9

Connection close

Transfer-Encoding chunked

Content-Type text/html; charset=UTF-8

bcmath

BCMath support enabled

bz2

BZip2 Support Enabled

BZip2 Version 1.0.2, 30-Dec-2001

calendar

Calendar support enabled

ctype

ctype functions enabled

curl

CURL support enabled

CURL Information libcurl/7.12.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7a zlib/1.2.1.2 libidn/0.5.6

dba

DBA support enabled

Supported handlers cdb cdb_make db4 inifile flatfile

dbx

dbx support enabled

dbx version 1.0.0

supported databases MySQL ODBC PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server FrontBase Oracle 8 (oci8) Sybase-CT

Directive Local Value Master Value

dbx.colnames_case lowercase lowercase

dio

dio support enabled

exif

EXIF Support enabled

EXIF Version 1.4 $Id: exif.c,v 1.118.2.35 2005/03/05 18:30:47 rasmus Exp $

Supported EXIF Version 0220

Supported filetypes JPEG,TIFF

ftp

FTP support enabled

gettext

GetText Support enabled

gmp

gmp support enabled

iconv

iconv support enabled

iconv implementation glibc

iconv library version 2.3.4

Directive Local Value Master Value

iconv.input_encoding ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1

iconv.internal_encoding ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1

iconv.output_encoding ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1

ldap

LDAP Support enabled

RCS Version $Id: ldap.c,v 1.130.2.10 2004/06/01 21:05:33 iliaa Exp $

Total Links 0/unlimited

API Version 3001

Vendor Name OpenLDAP

Vendor Version 20213

mime_magic

mime_magic support enabled

Directive Local Value Master Value

mime_magic.magicfile /usr/share/file/magic.mime /usr/share/file/magic.mime

openssl

OpenSSL support enabled

OpenSSL Version OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003

overload

User-Space Object Overloading Support enabled

pcre

PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) Support enabled

PCRE Library Version 4.5 01-December-2003

posix

Revision $Revision: 1.51.2.2 $

pspell

PSpell Support enabled

session

Session Support enabled

Registered save handlers files user

Directive Local Value Master Value

session.auto_start Off Off

session.bug_compat_42 Off Off

session.bug_compat_warn On On

session.cache_expire 180 180

session.cache_limiter nocache nocache

session.cookie_domain no value no value

session.cookie_lifetime 0 0

session.cookie_path / /

session.cookie_secure Off Off

session.entropy_file no value no value

session.entropy_length 0 0

session.gc_divisor 1000 1000

session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 1440

session.gc_probability 1 1

session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID

session.referer_check no value no value

session.save_handler files files

session.save_path /var/lib/php/session /var/lib/php/session

session.serialize_handler php php

session.use_cookies On On

session.use_only_cookies Off Off

session.use_trans_sid Off Off

shmop

shmop support enabled

sockets

Sockets Support enabled

standard

Regex Library Bundled library enabled

Dynamic Library Support enabled

Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

Directive Local Value Master Value

assert.active 1 1

assert.bail 0 0

assert.callback no value no value

assert.quiet_eval 0 0

assert.warning 1 1

auto_detect_line_endings 0 0

default_socket_timeout 60 60

safe_mode_allowed_env_vars PHP_ PHP_

safe_mode_protected_env_vars LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

url_rewriter.tags a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry

user_agent no value no value

tokenizer

Tokenizer Support enabled

wddx

WDDX Support enabled

WDDX Session Serializer enabled

xml

XML Support active

XML Namespace Support active

EXPAT Version expat_1.95.7

yp

YP Support enabled

zlib

ZLib Support enabled

Compiled Version 1.2.1.2

Linked Version 1.2.1.2

Directive Local Value Master Value

zlib.output_compression Off Off

zlib.output_compression_level -1 -1

zlib.output_handler no value no value

Additional Modules

Module Name

sysvsem

sysvshm

Environment

Variable Value

LANG C

SELINUX_INIT YES

CONSOLE /dev/console

TERM linux

INIT_VERSION sysvinit-2.85

PATH /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

RUNLEVEL 3

runlevel 3

PWD /

PREVLEVEL N

previous N

HOME /

SHLVL 2

_ /sbin/initlog

PHP Variables

Variable Value

_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”] dingdong.sas.noklab.net

_SERVER[“HTTP_CONNECTION”] keep-alive

_SERVER[“HTTP_USER_AGENT”] Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5

_SERVER[“HTTP_ACCEPT”] application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5

_SERVER[“HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING”] gzip,deflate,bzip2,sdch

_SERVER[“HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE”] en-US,en;q=0.8

_SERVER[“HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET”] ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3

_SERVER[“PATH”] /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

_SERVER[“SERVER_SIGNATURE”] <address>Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) Server at dingdong.sas.noklab.net Port 80</address>

_SERVER[“SERVER_SOFTWARE”] Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)

_SERVER[“SERVER_NAME”] dingdong.sas.noklab.net

_SERVER[“SERVER_ADDR”] 10.48.82.2

_SERVER[“SERVER_PORT”] 80

_SERVER[“REMOTE_ADDR”] 10.162.161.23

_SERVER[“DOCUMENT_ROOT”] /var/www/html

_SERVER[“SERVER_ADMIN”] root@localhost

_SERVER[“SCRIPT_FILENAME”] /nethome/sweng/arich/public_html/forum/phpinfo.php

_SERVER[“REMOTE_PORT”] 2046

_SERVER[“GATEWAY_INTERFACE”] CGI/1.1

_SERVER[“SERVER_PROTOCOL”] HTTP/1.1

_SERVER[“REQUEST_METHOD”] GET

_SERVER[“QUERY_STRING”] no value

_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”] /~arich/forum/phpinfo.php

_SERVER[“SCRIPT_NAME”] /~arich/forum/phpinfo.php

_SERVER[“PHP_SELF”] /~arich/forum/phpinfo.php

_SERVER[“PATH_TRANSLATED”] /nethome/sweng/arich/public_html/forum/phpinfo.php

_SERVER[“argv”]

Array

_SERVER[“argc”] 0

_ENV[“LANG”] C

_ENV[“SELINUX_INIT”] YES

_ENV[“CONSOLE”] /dev/console

_ENV[“TERM”] linux

_ENV[“INIT_VERSION”] sysvinit-2.85

_ENV[“PATH”] /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

_ENV[“RUNLEVEL”] 3

_ENV[“runlevel”] 3

_ENV[“PWD”] /

_ENV[“PREVLEVEL”] N

_ENV[“previous”] N

_ENV[“HOME”] /

_ENV[“SHLVL”] 2

_ENV[“_”] /sbin/initlog

[@andrewrich Member 15 years, 6 months ago]

Oh, and I am using version 0.9.0.5 from the Download page.

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 6 months ago]

Interesting that this is a CentOS installation as well.

Can you install WordPress OK on this host or domain?

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 6 months ago]

I wonder if SELinux could be involved? That’s prevented me from doing things on systems in the past, to the point of me banging my head against the wall for hours.

SELINUX_INIT from your phpinfo();

[@laimonas Member 15 years, 5 months ago]

It was doing a similar thing or me, would not advance to step 1. After some debugging, it turned out that I didn’t have php-mysql installed. bbpress code detects it but the error message was getting lost and simply the response was redirected back to step 0.

Doing apt-get install php5-mysql did the trick.