baaa! need some help!

[hello]

Trying to install this php script

Ok here are the instructions!

1) BACK-UP your database and, if upgrading, your current Geeklog installation
2) Unpack the tarball *within* your web tree
3) For *nix installations do a chown -R <webuser>:<webuser> /path/to/geeklog
4) For *nix installations cd into /path/to/geeklog and to the following:
- chmod -R 777 logs/
- chmod -R 777 public_html/backend/
5) Create the database you want Geeklog to reside in
6) Open a browser and navigate to http://<your_geeklog_url>/admin/install/install.php
7) Follow the instructions in the script

What dose 2 and 3 mean???


I try to open my browser and go to mysite/Portal/admin/install/install.php
but it dosn't let me It is under the Portal folder

then I moved the install script to just mysite/nstall.php, and it works but I think i have to leave it in its originaly place /admin/install/install.php


Please help guys

[El_Nino]

make sure you're putting everything under the public_html directory

[hello]

ya thanks a lot bro, I have already done that, any other help please!

[bilalak]

Unpack in the folder u like to use it for ur script means untar

u can do this using Winzip on Windows or untar from a shell Prompt

Then Chown -R to change the owner ship of all files and reusing Sub directories

Any thing else

[hello]

how do I go about - r Crowing?

[Aragorn450]

You need to log in via ssh (shell login) using PuTTY (provided through the control panel) and type the following when you log into your account through that:

bash$ chown -R <your user name>:<your user name> public_html/<geeklog location>/*
bash$ chmod a+rx public_html/<geeklog location>
bash$ chmod -R 777 public_html/<geeklog location>/public_html/backend
bash$ chmod -R 777 public_html/<geeklog location>/logs

And that seems to be it... Make sense? Oh, and don't type in the "bash$" of course.... I just put that in so you would know what to enter for each line...

[hello]

wait what do you mean about the BASH thing?

??? Just ignor it?

also, I put my username io twice?


thanks for the helpo!

[Aragorn450]

Yes and Yes :D

[hello]

ok this Is what my fist line looks like

chown -R <MYUSERNAME>:<MYUSERNAME>public_html/portal

It says NO such file or directory?


What Am I doing wrong??


BY THE WAY I REALLY REALLY appreciate your help!

[Aragorn450]

well... as long as <myusername> is your real user name, and you put a space after the second one and before the public_html/portal, you should be good...

[hello]

chown -R <ochroma>:<ochroma> public_html/portal

IS that what its supposed to look like?

Ochroma is my name for my acount with HR
Am I supposed to use the one for Mysql?

Iam confused

!???

(this is great you being able to help me so fast)

[Aragorn450]

now get rid of the < and the > and you're good to go...

IOW, make it like this:

chown -R ochroma:ochroma public_html/portal

[hello]

hmm seems to work

THanks buddy!

I Think you should be promoted to mod!!!!

HEy thu one question couldn't ihave done this through ftp?
All i was doing was changin the folder permissions right? Chmod

However I do not know what this did
chown -R <webuser>:<webuser> /path/to/geeklog

[Aragorn450]

Yea, the chmod you can do through ftp (usually), but the chown you can't... What the chown does is change the owner and or group to whoever you specify for a particular file... (in your case, you made both the owner and group yourself). This is used for permissions, so now nobody else can modify your files, because they arn't you...

[hello]

Damn after all this, now I get a Mysql problem

I swear this is the hardest thing to install!!!!!

Warning: Failed opening 'public_html/portal/system/classes/template.class.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/ochroma/public_html/portal/public_html/admin/install/install.php on line 672

Warning: Failed opening 'public_html/portal/config.default' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/ochroma/public_html/portal/public_html/admin/install/install.php on line 82

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: template in /home/ochroma/public_html/portal/public_html/admin/install/install.php on line 128


Any suggestions?????

This better be worth it!!

and thanks again

[Aragorn450]

Give up dude... It doesn't look like (after I looked at the stuff I downloaded from them) that it's for the kind of setup that we have... Rather more for if you have your own server...

Just delete all the files you added from it and use something else.... That's my thought anyway...

If you still wanna try, I'd suggest trying to get help from there (at http://www.geeklog.org/)

[hello]

ya ok I'll try somthing else thanks!