My forum is redirecting to the setup page

gasface

Im guessing it has to do with the recent suckiness of dreamhost ?

Anyone else want to guess as to why this would this occur.

http://www.bayridgetalk.com/

Minisweeper

Has it wiped all your settings (check conf/settings.php)?

ithcy

^^
check the permissions on conf/settings.php... if it's a new setup, and it can't write to that file, it can't record the bit that means setup has been completed.

gasface

hmmm, the site has been live for a few months.. not new...pretty active site with over 300 members

ill peep the settings.php

gasface

settings.php is set to 644

Mark

You'll want to make sure that this line is in there at the very least:

$Configuration['SETUP_COMPLETE'] = '1'

If there are no lines in there, then it got wiped somehow and you'll need to redo all of your settings. If you made any backups of the file, any of them should do just fine. The settings rarely change except for extension preferences - which can be easily reset.

alnokta

Download Filezilla ftp client ... browse to your conf folder .. change file attributes to '777' and do that fast because I think anyone now can start the installer again(or not?)

gasface

hmm, mark where should that line of code be ?

Dinoboff

check the permission of conf/. 644 is fine for conf/settings.php but conf/ need 755.

Mark

that line should be in conf/settings.php

gasface

gulp.. i dont see it .. here it is...

settingsphp.txt

so am i screwed ?

gasface

so should i just reset it up ?

i was using 1.0... whats the best way to move to 1.01 at this point ?

onetwentyeight

ive had this problem too. for security reasons i renamed the setup/index.html page so it just gives a 404 but its annoying.

Mark

gasface: Not the /settings.php file. The /conf/settings.php file.

gasface

ahhh... well, i fixed.. i was able to upgrade to 1.01..

was ok until a few minutes ago... getting error wehn starting a new discussion...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: discussionform_validateattachments() in /home/.lafayette/mrshitty/BAYRIDGETALK.COM/library/Framework/Framework.Class.Delegation.php on line 36

Mark

Looks like a problem with the attachments extension.

gasface

yeah, interesting.. i turned it off.. all good again..

thanks for all the help all

stinger

I have the same problem as gasface.... now what?

ragingapathy

I have this happen all the time after i screwed up the invite extension, which I've been told how to fix, but have yet to do so. Just make sure you back up your config folder pretty routinely, or at least any time you make successful setting changes. When that screen does come up, replace the folder with your backed up config folder and you should be golden. Then you can figure out what's doing it.

Phantasos

I'm having a simmilar issue but can't find the root. 90% of the time the forum appears fine but every once in a while you'll follow a link to another place in the forum (such as a new discussion thread) and it'll redirect you to the setup screen. I haven't seen any correlations between this unusual behavior to any specific input on my part. It appears completely random... I've checked ~/forum/conf/settings.php and the "Setup_Complete" line seems to reflect a successful setup. Any other ideas on what might be causing this?

iamglenn

yes same problem,

Phantasos above me explained it.. exactly. I'm using DreamHost if you've found any correlation with them.