Installation need help: Few yellow warnings!

karla · Post by **karla** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:36 am

Hi,

I'm trying to install a freshly copy serendipity on my host server Window NT. I have a few yellow warnings before install. Please help me how to fix these. Thanks.

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PHP installation
Operating system Windows NT 5.2, i586
Webserver SAPI cgi-fcgi
PHP version >= 4.1.2 Yes, 4.4.4
Database extensions MySQL
Session extension Yes
PCRE extension Yes
GDlib extension Yes
OpenSSL extension No [?]
mbstring extension Yes
iconv extension No [?]
zlib extension Yes
Imagemagick binary Not found [?]

php.ini configuration
Recommended Actual
safe_mode OFF OFF
register_globals OFF ON [?]
magic_quotes_gpc OFF OFF
magic_quotes_runtime OFF OFF
session.use_trans_sid OFF OFF
allow_url_fopen ON ON
file_uploads ON ON
post_max_size 10M 8M [?]
upload_max_filesize 10M 5M [?]

Permissions
D:/Domains/mysite.com/wwwroot/ Writable
D:/Domains/mysite.com/wwwroot/templates_c Writable
D:/Domains/mysite.com/wwwroot/archives/ Writable
D:/Domains/mysite.com/wwwroot/uploads/ Writable

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:20 am

These look reasonably normal for an NT server, and shouldn't be too much of a problem for you. Go ahead and complete the installation. Be aware that if you plan to install the spartacus plugin that you will also need to make the plugins and templates folders writeable.

Carl

karla · Post by **karla** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:46 am

thank you for quick replied. After I installed it, everything went smoothly except a couple errors:

1. every links on the side menu are broken because they have extra '/'
example:
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?/archives/2007/01.html

you see the extra "/" right after "?"

2. After login the admin section, it logged me out everytime i clicked on the left site links (personal setting, New entries, Edit entries...ect...all of the link that have [adminModule] in the url.)

Please help.

Thank you so much.

Karla

Davy · Post by **Davy** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:56 am

1. That's normal if you don't use the rewrite engine.
2. Search these forums a bit.

karla · Post by **karla** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:29 am

I've been looking for all day and could not find one that could fix. Many have problem with wrong password and username, author group level, php session. I'm able to login the admin page with no problem. I think it not php session because I have no problem using other php apps on my current hosting.

However, I found one that have exactly the same problem I have, same version (newest one) I use. No solution to fix yet:

http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?t=8205

Any idea ?

Please help. I really like this serenpidity blog (because it has reply threads - exactly what I am looking for).

Thanks a lot.

Karla

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:25 pm

Hi!

That other topic is from a user who's using IIS, which emits invalid HTTP session cookies that are not usable for serendipity.

Which other PHP apps are you using on your webspace? It simply might be that others are not using PHP sessions.

Maybe you can post a link to your <?php phpinfo() ?> output, then we can see if sessions work.

Does it work for you if you check the "remember me" checkbox when logging in?

Regards,
Garvin

karla · Post by **karla** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:06 pm

Hi,

I'm using window too. I've tried php-nuke, wordpress, mybloggies and had no problem with them. php-nuke- very good app but too big many modules i don't need. wordpress - coding so messy, i don't like it. mybloogies - too basic and i have problem with displaying fonts.

Here is my php test page:

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I also tried 'remember me' , didn't work. didn't work on firefox either.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Karla

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:21 pm

Hi Karla!

Dang, that's bad. I have no possiblity to setup IIS here on my system. Are you fixed on IIS, or could you also use Apache on your server?

However, I'd love to fix this bug on Win-IIS. Would it be possible for you to give me temporary FTP access to your s9y installation? Then I could debug this thing and find out what exactly is getting sent wrong. It must be something related to IIS, I'm quite sure. Some oddity that only MS knows about.

Serendipity has made a huge effort to try to make the cookie-sessions as secure as possible, but this was developed on Apache-servers. So it might be that our security tightening had a bad effect on IIS-compatibility.

Best regards,
Garvin

karla · Post by **karla** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:29 pm

Hi garvinhicking,

IIS is the only option I have. My current hosting does not support apache. Please check your pm with my ftp username and pwd.

Thank you so much.

Regards,
Karla

karla · Post by **karla** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:35 pm

Found solution:

http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?t=8205

clean and nice the control panel.

Karla

Installation need help: Few yellow warnings!

Installation need help: Few yellow warnings!

couple errors

can't find the fix.

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