re-installation prevention?

javart1

Hi,
I am a newbie to vanilla. I installed it in an PAAS environment with no problems. Everything seemed to be working fine. I then added a new theme and uploaded the project along with the new theme to my PAAS. This seems to have over-written an important file, because now when I hit the URL for the application, it is attempting to do the installation all over again. This is a problem since I already have content in my database.
What do I need to change to prevent the re-installation?

HalfCat

Why did you re-upload everything and not just the theme? Anyways, do you have a config.php file in the /config folder?

javart1

Good question. It turns out I only uploaded the theme. However, it appears to go to a staging area on the server. So then the staging area over wrote something. My local copy does not have a config.php file in the conf directory (Im assuming that is where I would find it).

peregrine

yep  config.php needs to be in conf/config.php

you could copy config-defaults.php to config.php and modify the four lines.

$Configuration['Database']['Host']                             = 'dbhost';
$Configuration['Database']['Name']                             = 'dbname';
$Configuration['Database']['User']                             = 'dbuser';
$Configuration['Database']['Password']  = 'pass';

or you might use this as a base and modify accordingly  ...

and change the above....

<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();

// Addons
$Configuration['Addons']['Version'] = 'Undefined';

// Conversations
$Configuration['Conversations']['Version'] = '2.0.18.4';

// Database
$Configuration['Database']['Name'] = 'vanilla';
$Configuration['Database']['Host'] = 'localhost';
$Configuration['Database']['User'] = 'user';
$Configuration['Database']['Password'] = 'vanilla';

// EnabledApplications
$Configuration['EnabledApplications']['Vanilla'] = 'vanilla';
$Configuration['EnabledApplications']['Conversations'] = 'conversations';

// EnabledPlugins
$Configuration['EnabledPlugins']['HtmLawed'] = 'HtmLawed';


// Garden

$Configuration['Garden']['Title'] = 'Your Title';
$Configuration['Garden']['Cookie']['Salt'] = '';
$Configuration['Garden']['Cookie']['Domain'] = '';
$Configuration['Garden']['Email']['SupportName'] = 'Your support Name';
$Configuration['Garden']['Version'] = '2.0.18.4';
$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = FALSE;
$Configuration['Garden']['CanProcessImages'] = TRUE;
$Configuration['Garden']['Installed'] = TRUE;
$Configuration['Garden']['Menu']['Sort'] = array('Dashboard', 'User', 'Activity', 'Discussions', 'Applicants');
$Configuration['Garden']['EditContentTimeout'] = '-1';
$Configuration['Garden']['Format']['Hashtags'] = FALSE;
$Configuration['Garden']['InputFormatter'] = 'Markdown';
$Configuration['Garden']['Theme'] = 'EmbedFriendly';
$Configuration['Garden']['MobileTheme'] = 'mobile';

// Modules
$Configuration['Modules']['Garden']['Panel'] = array('UserPhotoModule', 'UserInfoModule', 'GuestModule', 'Ads');
$Configuration['Modules']['Garden']['Content'] = array('MessageModule', 'Notices', 'Content', 'Ads');
$Configuration['Modules']['Vanilla']['Panel'] = array('NewDiscussionModule', 'SignedInModule', 'GuestModule', 'Ads');
$Configuration['Modules']['Vanilla']['Content'] = array('MessageModule', 'Notices', 'NewConversationModule', 'NewDiscussionModule', 'CategoryModeratorsModule', 'Content', 'Ads');
$Configuration['Modules']['Conversations']['Panel'] = array('NewConversationModule', 'SignedInModule', 'GuestModule', 'Ads');
$Configuration['Modules']['Conversations']['Content'] = array('MessageModule', 'Notices', 'NewConversationModule', 'NewDiscussionModule', 'Content', 'Ads');




// Plugins
$Configuration['Plugins']['GettingStarted']['Dashboard'] = '1';
$Configuration['Plugins']['GettingStarted']['Discussion'] = '1';
$Configuration['Plugins']['GettingStarted']['Plugins'] = '1';
$Configuration['Plugins']['GettingStarted']['Categories'] = '1';
$Configuration['Plugins']['GettingStarted']['Profile'] = '1';
$Configuration['Plugins']['GettingStarted']['Registration'] = '1';


// Routes
$Configuration['Routes']['DefaultController'] = 'discussions';
$Configuration['Routes']['DefaultForumRoot'] = 'discussions';
$Configuration['Routes']['Default404'] = array('dashboard/home/filenotfound', 'NotFound');
$Configuration['Routes']['DefaultPermission'] = array('dashboard/home/permission', 'NotAuthorized');
$Configuration['Routes']['UpdateMode'] = 'dashboard/home/updatemode';

// Themes
$Configuration['Themes']['EmbedFriendly']['SingleColumn'] = FALSE;

// Vanilla
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Version'] = '2.0.18.4';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Discussions']['PerPage'] = '10';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comments']['AutoRefresh'] = '0';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comments']['PerPage'] = '10';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comments']['AutoOffset'] = TRUE;
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Archive']['Date'] = '';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Archive']['Exclude'] = FALSE;
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Categories']['MaxDisplayDepth'] = '3';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Categories']['DoHeadings'] = FALSE;
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Categories']['HideModule'] = FALSE;
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Discussion']['SpamCount'] = '3';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Discussion']['SpamTime'] = '60';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Discussion']['SpamLock'] = '120';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comment']['SpamCount'] = '5';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comment']['SpamTime'] = '60';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comment']['SpamLock'] = '120';

javart1

Hi peregrine,
I attempted to use your file, with changes to the database lines. I got the following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function DefinePermissions() on a non-object in /var/lib/openshift/33b96e22edb64faa8d95f1661d9bf8ea/app-root/runtime/repo/php/library/core/class.session.php on line 318

Looks like we got further than I did before, but something is still missing.

peregrine

@javart1 said:

This is a problem since I already have content in my database.

try deletingall your ini files in your /cache. It may or may not solve.

otherwise

also check with phpmyadmin if you have data in your permissions tables and other tables.

It sounds like a quagmire. Perhaps the easiest solution

Backup your database. Reinstall vanilla. Import your database.

peregrine

I would also read this carefully and all of the links provided in the thread...

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/168277/#Comment_168277

javart1

Thank you. I got some good practices to follow from that discussion thread.
For my installation, I decided that my database did not have any critical content, so I just threw it out and did a reinstall. Everything is back up and running. This time I got a backup of my config.php.