installing problems 0.8

[beppo]

hi,
at first sorry for my english.
i tried to install serendipity 0.8 but i always get the same massage:

Prüfe ob Datenbank und Tabellen bereits bestehen... Negativ
Richte Datenbank ein... Fertig
Erstelle Hauptbenutzer 'beppo'... Fertig
Setze Standard-Template...

INSERT INTO serendipity_config (name,value,authorid) values ('template', 'default', '0')
/ Table 'usrdb_www0197.serendipity_config' doesn't exist Fertig
Installiere Standard-Plugins...
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /www0197/www.pletzundbrehm.de/serendipity/includ ... ks.inc.php on line 289

can someone please help me?
thanks a lot
beppo

[garvinhicking]

Are you trying to install Serendipity 0.8.5? 0.8 is really old.

Your problem seems to be that you uploaded corrupted files to your host. Please re-upload the serendipity files and make sure your FTP client reports any errors to you, and that all files are uploaded completely.

It seems that your trackback.inc.php file has corrupted file contents, hence the PHP error. And your db.sql file might be truncated, hence the error about a missing serendipity_config table...

Regards
,Garvin

[beppo]

of cause it´s the 0.8.5 version - sorry

i reloded the files but i get the same error message

thanks
beppo

[Guest]

hi,
at first sorry for my english.
i tried to install serendipity 0.8 but i always get the same massage:

Prüfe ob Datenbank und Tabellen bereits bestehen... Negativ
Richte Datenbank ein... Fertig
Erstelle Hauptbenutzer 'beppo'... Fertig
Setze Standard-Template...

INSERT INTO serendipity_config (name,value,authorid) values ('template', 'default', '0')
/ Table 'usrdb_www0197.serendipity_config' doesn't exist Fertig
Installiere Standard-Plugins...
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /www0197/www.pletzundbrehm.de/serendipity/includ ... ks.inc.php on line 289

can someone please help me?
thanks a lot
beppo

[garvinhicking]

Beppo,

can you please check what your this include/functions_trackbacks.inc.php file contains on your server at the mentioned line 289?

That file should be 11881 bytes in size, the sql/db.sql file should be 5122 bytes.

Regards,
Garvin

[Guest]

hi garvin

thanks for your help.
i hope i understand erverything correctly.

285 function report_pingback_success () {
286 print '<?xml version="1.0"?>' . "\n";
287 print <<<SUCCESS
288 <methodResponse>
289 <params>
290 <param>
291 <value><string>success</string></value>
292 </param>
293 </params>
294 </methodResponse>
295 SUCCESS;

the filesize include/functions_trackbacks.inc.php file is 11897 bytes

the sql/db.sql file is 5122 bytes

any idea what´s going wrong?

thank you
an regards
beppo

[garvinhicking]

Hm, this is strange. The filesize of the trackback file does differ, there might be a linebreak problem.

However the function code you pasted works alright and shouldn't create a parse error. Which PHP version are you using?

I can offer you more help if you want to give me temporary FTP access to your blog, then I could debug the situation...?!

Regards,
garvin