this message only to tell you that I did as jhermanns proposed and as I originally meant, ie. by simulating a post request, and this works pretty well.
I still think of going someday thru the installer as romulus suggested, but as for now it's ok.
Thank you all for your advices!
mircea

what you could do, mircea, is simulate the post request that is done when the user fills out the configuration. just read the nessecary variables from the original setup page and perform the http request with your script.
That's just what I thought I'd do if there was no other way, and I guess it ...

Thanks for the tip and indeed, I've noticed this file which stores all the information by default : ( serendipity_config_local.tpl by me ) but that would not avoid the step of the configuration file, just fill in all the fields with the appropriate values.
I'm afraid, this will still be to confusing ...

yes exactly this,
I would like to find a way to avoid going thru this page, as I'll take care of all these informations in the *back office* so to speak.

I would like to make all the process very smooth for my users that have no idea what a database is, or a path, or any configuration option.

When ...

Hi everyone,
and congratulations for all the good work ! the 0.7beta3 is just perfect!

I installed it as a shared installation so that I can host different blogs on the same box.
Everything went just fine, I log every new user in a mysql db, I have a set of perl and bash scripts which make ...