Vanilla 0.9.3 Beta Installation Instructions

Bergamot

Yeah, but no sense in writing an uber-installer when 1.0 may not be feature complete.

Ben

But surely the database is finalised now? What is still changing is the XHTML, CSS and some of the objects/delegates. Those wouldnt't affect the install script, would they?

Bergamot

Yeah, but as soon as he writes the install script, someone will show up with an awesome feature idea that requires a database change, and he'll swear at the monitor for a few hours.

Also, with our precious forum databases at stake, I'd be paranoid about some little bug in the SQL wiping out the data for 5% of users.

bobulator

bob@edubuntu:~$ svn propedit svn:externals trunk
svn: 'trunk' is not a working copy

am i missing something?

ithcy

your copy of the svn?

thank you! try the shrimp!

bobulator

bob@edubuntu:~$ svn export http://lussumo.com/svn/vanilla/trunk
A trunk
A trunk/account.php
A trunk/ajax
A trunk/ajax/sortroles.php

.....

Exported external at revision 40.

Exported revision 391.
bob@edubuntu:~$ svn propedit svn:externals trunk
svn: 'trunk' is not a working copy

i dont get it guvnor

Bergamot

Once you export, you're left with a folder that has all the files inside. You just drop that on your server and install.

rhoekmanjr

You said "There have been a number of cases recently where users did not have the php-mysql link libraries installed on their server which results in them getting entirely blank screens when trying to setup vanilla (after stage 3 of the installer, if in use) If you are getting a blank screen please ensure your server is correctly setup and that php and mysql are functioning happily together." Do you have any info on what libaries need to be installed? My web host is looking into this, but I need to able to tell them what to install. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

jsanders

it's not really specific libraries, it a complete installation problem. create a file on your server (name doesn't matter, as long as the extension will be executed by php), and put:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

then go access the page you created with your webbrowser. if you get a big php configuration list, then php is working. if mysql is correctly installed, it will be in the list someplace.

beyond this simple check, there's a lot of subtleties that i'll leave to the more experienced.

rhoekmanjr

I do get the big PHP config list by running info.php. Any insights into the other subtleties? I really need to get this thing up and running soon. Thanks very much ...

ithcy

is there any mention of mysql in that config list? are you able to run other mysql-dependent applications?

rhoekmanjr

I am running a PHP/MySQL app in a different directory on the same domain, and yes, there is a section in the info.php file called MySQL. Here's the content from that box: MySQL Support enabled Active Persistent Links 0 Active Links 0 Client API version 4.1.7 Directive Local Value Master Value mysql.allow_persistent On On mysql.connect_timeout 60 60 mysql.default_host no value no value mysql.default_password no value no value mysql.default_port no value no value mysql.default_socket no value no value mysql.default_user no value no value mysql.max_links Unlimited Unlimited mysql.max_persistent Unlimited Unlimited mysql.trace_mode Off Off What am I missing? Thanks so much for your help.