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

Thu May 9 18:32:55 BST 2013

I'll have a look. I'll do a test install on a Linux box tonight.

Op 9-5-2013 16:20, Smith, John schreef:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Yes the latest version from the community site. I had the exact same 
> error (yesterday) and after manually adding the details to 
> database.php and getting page4 to run it appeared to setup properly 
> however enabling db auth and going to management and trying to add a 
> user giver the error I posted yesterday so something still isn't right...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith
>
> Learning Technologist
>
> School of Health & Life Sciences
>
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Thomas Rochford
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 09, 2013 3:12 PM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte Installation on a Centos - Blank 
> Databaseerties
>
> Just spoke with Mark (We were both at another meeting today). They're 
> using the most recent, i.e. 2 days old, version. He's going to edit 
> database.php manually, restart the install and then go to 
> setup/page4.php if all else fails.
>
> Thomas
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> *From: *Tom Reijnders <mailto:reijnders at tor.nl>
> *Sent: *?09/?05/?2013 11:23
> *To: *For Xerte technical developers 
> <mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> *Subject: *[Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte Installation on a Centos - Blank 
> Databaseerties
>
> Do you happen to know what version of the installer you are using? See
> version.txt
>
> Tom
>
> Op 8-5-2013 16:19, Smith, John schreef:
> > 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
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Chaney, Mark
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 3:08 PM
> > To: Xerte discussion list
> > 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 <mailto:mchaney at bedford.ac.uk>
> > Learning Technologies Adviser
> > Bedford College
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