[Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte Installation on a Centos - Blank Database erties

[Smith, John]

Hi Mark,

I just did an install today as well and the same happened to me so something is obviously broken in the package... I had to go into the newly created database.php and manually enter the correct values to connect to the database. Then refreshed the browser on step 4 and clicked ok to resubmit the posted data and this time it went through fine...

Hope that helps in the meantime until we fix...

So the steps are (if you are no longer on page 4)

    Delete database.php
    Go through the process until step 4 bombs
    Manually enter the host/db_Name/User/password into the newly created database.php file
    Go back to your browser and refresh page 4

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University


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Subject: [Xerte] Xerte Installation on a Centos - Blank Database erties

Hi all,

I have done a test installation of xerte on a test server and have some strange behaviour. On the last page of the installation (Page 4) the database name wasn’t inserted into the database php file. Thus it was giving me an error of database not selected.

Attempting to get into the management side of the system I found I couldn’t access it. Upon inspection there is no data what so ever in the sitedetails database table other than (what I assume is an auto incremental number) the id of 1. There is no site_url, apache, admin_username, admin_password .... etc etc.

It looks like somewhere a section of a script failed to run without throwing an error?

To try and pre-empt some questions:
Centos 6 server.
Install ran ok up untill page4
Same server as I have 7 fully working moodle installs. Apache and php are ok. SE linux off.
Mysql installed and working.
Xerte database accessible and can be queries from workbench on external machine and on server itself.
File/Folder permissions set according to docs/instructions.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Mark Chaney
mchaney at bedford.ac.uk
Learning Technologies Adviser
Bedford College
Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AH
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