[Xerte] walkthrough for installing toolkits

[jventola at verizon.net]

Thanks RonM.  I will give that a try next week.


Date sent:	Wed, 20 May 2009 19:13:31 +0100
From:	"RonM" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
Subject:	RE: [Xerte] walkthrough for installing toolkits
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> Pat may beat me to this response but here goes anyway...
> 
> What do you see if via cpanel you access phpMyAdmin - you should see a
> toolkits database as you created it but does it have any tables? If it
> has tables does the sitedetails table have any entries?
> 
> I suspect you either have no tables or the insert into sitedetails
> didn't work.
> 
> You say "I created a user account on the next screen". The only
> account the installer created via the installer is the admin account
> for access to management.php.
> 
> If you're using cpanel my recommendation would be as follows:
> 
> 1. Using cpanel select the mySql databases icon.
> 
> 2. Create a new mysql user (and password) specifically for toolkits
> and make a note of the full username and password and the full
> database name. (you'll often find that both database name and username
> are automatically prefixed by your account name e.g. full database
> name equals: youraccountname_toolkits)
> 
> 3. Select Add user to database and give that mysql account full access
> to the toolkits database
> 
> 4. run toolkits setup and use the database and mysql account details
> 
> You'll know if setup has completed if you get success messages on the
> last page.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> jventola at verizon.net
> Sent: 20 May 2009 18:25
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> Subject: RE: [Xerte] walkthrough for installing toolkits
> 
> I actually managed to install it, but when I navigate to the site, all
> I see is the numeral 1 in upper left.
> 
> What I did was to take the advice to create a database in the cpanel. 
> 
> 
> On the "MySQL Database Creation page" of setup, I
> left first line blank, used my normal login for siteground and entered
> the new database name but left the prefix blank.
> 
> That seemed to work.  I created a user account on the next screen. 
> Then I hit Submit Query at the bottom and got a lot of text with a lot
> of access denied for user messages.  Still, at the bottom it says the
> Installation is complete and provides a link to my toolkits site.
> 
> But, as I say, the page is empty except for one digit.
> 
> 
> 
> Date sent:	Wed, 20 May 2009 08:50:33 +0100
> From:	Patrick Lockley <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk>
> Subject:	RE: [Xerte] walkthrough for installing toolkits
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> > What errors do you get?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > jventola at verizon.net
> > Sent: 20 May 2009 02:13
> > To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > Subject: [Xerte] walkthrough for installing toolkits
> > 
> > I have a hosted account (on Siteground) and would like to install
> > Xerte toolkit.  (I've managed moodle and drupal).  I am getting
> > errors about setting up the database when I run Setup. I am a tad
> > beyond total newbie status when it comes to mysql and php.
> > (Siteground has easy installers for the packages it supports.)
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a walkthrough tutorial that might make it
> > possible for me to install this? I've found information about
> > installing on XAMP but not on a hosted account.
> > 
> > BTW, I did at least check that the file permissions on the folders
> > mentioned in Setup were ok. But I could not find the Loaed
> > Configuration File's path as given in PHP Info using Filezilla.  
> > 
> > 
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