[Xerte] Re: Problem with installer

[Brian Chivers]

I realise that one is supposed to to fail but this problem is after this
test that it fails.

I'll contact the developers list for help and to offer help.

Thanks
On 25 Jan 2013 21:02, "Pat @ Pgogy" <xerte at pgogywebstuff.com> wrote:

> One of the test scripts is designed to fail, but if you can make /setup
> better feel free too.
>
> You might also like the dev list as that is more techie
>
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> On 25 Jan 2013, at 15:46, Brian Chivers <brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > I've just tried to install Xerte toolkit 1.9 onto a freshly setup Ubuntu
> 12.04 LTS server running the latest mysql / php stack and have run into a
> problem with the installer php scripts.
> >
> > The server has a FQDN of xerte.portsmouth-college.ac.uk and when I run
> setup/mysql_test.php on the test where it checks connectivity I get this
> error
> >
> > Due to the following error - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check
> the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right
> syntax to use near '-college.ac.uk' at line 1 - 1064 we cannot ascertain
> whether we can create this database
> >
> > It would appear that it isn't escaping the FQDN correctly causing the
> mysql statement to fail.
> >
> > If I rename the server to use our secondary domain tpc.ac.uk the
> installer goes through fine so I know there is nothing wrong with the
> install.
> >
> > I still have the first server so if required I can test altered php
> files.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Brian Chivers
> >
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