Installation Problems

[MrEyes]

Hello all,

I have just purchased a license for VB3 and started to install on my server :

Apache 2
MySql 4.1.7
PHP 5.0.2

I have followed the instructions in the download vb3_readme.txt file and set the config.php.new parameters that apply to my configuration and renamed the file to config.php :

$servername = 'localhost';
$dbusername = 'root';
$dbpassword = '***********';
$dbname = '*********';
$technicalemail = 'manuel.reyes@e-mis.co.uk';
$usepconnect = 0;
$admincpdir = '****************-admincp';
$modcpdir = '****************-modcp';
$canviewadminlog = '1';
$canpruneadminlog = '1';
$canrunqueries = '';
$undeletableusers = '';
$superadministrators = '';
$tableprefix = '';
$cookieprefix = 'bb';

(I have remove comments and "sensitive" information)

I have then tried to launch the install script but I get a blank page whose source is :

<p></p>

I assume that I have missed something critical but after starting again from scratch I found the same problem.

Anybody got any ideas?

EDIT: After looking at the install.php script it looks like my problem might have something to do with :

$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PHP_SELF'];
$HTTP_ENV_VARS['PHP_SELF'];

both being null (used on line 60)

[Zachery]

Hello all,

I have just purchased a license for VB3 and started to install on my server :

Apache 2
MySql 4.1.7
PHP 5.0.2

I have followed the instructions in the download vb3_readme.txt file and set the config.php.new parameters that apply to my configuration and renamed the file to config.php :

$servername = 'localhost';
$dbusername = 'root';
$dbpassword = '***********';
$dbname = '*********';
$technicalemail = 'manuel.reyes@e-mis.co.uk';
$usepconnect = 0;
$admincpdir = '****************-admincp';
$modcpdir = '****************-modcp';
$canviewadminlog = '1';
$canpruneadminlog = '1';
$canrunqueries = '';
$undeletableusers = '';
$superadministrators = '';
$tableprefix = '';
$cookieprefix = 'bb';

(I have remove comments and "sensitive" information)

I have then tried to launch the install script but I get a blank page whose source is :



I assume that I have missed something critical but after starting again from scratch I found the same problem.

Anybody got any ideas?

EDIT: After looking at the install.php script it looks like my problem might have something to do with :

$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PHP_SELF'];
$HTTP_ENV_VARS['PHP_SELF'];

both being null (used on line 60)
$admincpdir = '****************-admincp';
$modcpdir = '****************-modcp';

Should not be full url's if you can help it.

Also, did you set an OLD_PASSWORD for mysql 4.1.7
If you are using php5 do you have the correct mysql libarys to run mysql 4.1.7?
Did you enable xml?

All of these are nessary to run vBulletin in php5 with mysql 4.1

[MrEyes]

$admincpdir = '****************-admincp';
$modcpdir = '****************-modcp';

Should not be full url's if you can help it.

Also, did you set an OLD_PASSWORD for mysql 4.1.7
If you are using php5 do you have the correct mysql libarys to run mysql 4.1.7?
Did you enable xml?

All of these are nessary to run vBulletin in php5 with mysql 4.1

Thanks for the reply

With regards to the directory names I am using folders prefixed with guids not full paths so this shouldnt be an issue

With regards to your other suggestions, do you have any urls where I can get further (and concrete) information on what i need to do - google searching is providing me with a miriad of conflicting suggestions.

Also before I read you reply I dropped the PHP version to 4.3.9 and eveything worked until a DB connection was attempted in step 2 - I assume this is due to the new password hashing mechanism that MySQL 4.1.7 uses.

[Zachery]

Thanks for the reply

With regards to the directory names I am using folders prefixed with guids not full paths so this shouldnt be an issue

With regards to your other suggestions, do you have any urls where I can get further (and concrete) information on what i need to do - google searching is providing me with a miriad of conflicting suggestions.

Also before I read you reply I dropped the PHP version to 4.3.9 and eveything worked until a DB connection was attempted in step 2 - I assume this is due to the new password hashing mechanism that MySQL 4.1.7 uses.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Password_hashing.html :)