Installation 0.9 with welcome screen ... but nothing happens

[ckby]

Hi,

after upload on server and the first step of installation nothing happens. After click on the installation-button, the installation is shown.

the database-tables are not generated, but the database-login was correct.

what is to do?

thanks,
CK

[garvinhicking]

This sounds like either a segfault or some other PHP error. Can you check your Apache and PHP error logfiles?

Tell us something about your environment, so that we can help.

Regards,
Garvin

[ckby]

maybe this can help...

This sounds like either a segfault or some other PHP error. Can you check your Apache and PHP error logfiles?

Tell us something about your environment, so that we can help.

Regards,
Garvin

[garvinhicking]

You have a CGI PHP interpreter, which seems to generate errors. Can you please ask your provider for the ErrorLog to be able to see which error is caused?

Best regards,
Garvin

[ckby]

Hi,

I ask my provider. But he reffers to the logs and means a folder for errorlogs has to be set up in the installationscript. But there is no option.

I used serendipity 0.85 for another project in another webspace at the same provider. It is working fine there.

You have a CGI PHP interpreter, which seems to generate errors. Can you please ask your provider for the ErrorLog to be able to see which error is caused?

Best regards,
Garvin

[garvinhicking]

Hm, your provider is acting strange there. The errorlogs are configured in the HTTP Server, not within any PHP application like Serendipity. He needs to configure his PHP CGI properly and set the error logging directives there, as well as the Apache ErrorLog directive.

Some things have changed since Serendipity 0.9, but you are yet the only one who has this problem, so there must be some error caused on your setup. It might very well be related to Serendipity, but to fix it, we first need to know what the error is about!

Regards,
Garvin

[ckby]

I tried to install wordpress. That was no problem.
After installling wordpress i tried to install serendipity in another folder. but also no chance for installation.

the answer of my provider:
"...ein Zugriff auf diese logfiles ist wie gesagt nicht möglich.
Überprüfen Sie bei Ihren Installationsskripten alle notwendigen Angaben und führen Sie die Installation dann erneut durch.
Da Sie selbst sagen, dass es im Webmaster-Tarif bereits einmal erfolgt ist, ist unsere Konfiguration ja für die Installation geeignet."

[garvinhicking]

Da stellt sich Dein Provider aber ganz schön zickig an!

Ohne Errorlogfile weiß ich nicht wirklich, was da schiefläuft. Ich kann Dir nur Hilfe anbieten das zu debuggen, wenn Du mir (temporär) FTP-Zugriff gibst?

Ich denke, dass irgendwo ein PHP-Befehl aufgrund von Sicherheitseinschränkungen einen Fatal Error wirft, oder dass ein Verzeichnis keinen Zugriff erlaubt und einen Fehler wirft. Da aber PHP als CGI solche Fehlermeldungen nicht an den User durchreicht (und AFAIK auch nicht per .htaccess umgesetzt werden kann), wüsste ich nicht, wie man sonst da dran kommen soll ohne das oben angesprochene Debugging via FTP.

Viele Grüße,
Garvin