Invalid default value for 'DateExpires' (Vanilla 2.5)
There's no Vanilla 2.5 Help category so I had to create this in Vanilla 2.3 Help.
I've never used Vanilla before and this is the first time I'm setting it up.
I get this error when I enter my DB credentials / admin username / password etc in /dashboard/setup:
Invalid default value for 'DateExpires'
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Can you get to
/utility/structureand Scan to see what it says?If that fails, can you run
/utility/update?If that doesn't work, can you look at your database and see if
DateExpiresis a column on both theAccessTokenandInvitationtable?I can get the same problem, when I try to install Vanilla 2.5 on fresh server setup (Ubuntu 16.04) running VestaCP.

This is what DB structure looks like:
@Linc: That PR must be backported.
@All
As long as that haven't been done, you need to make a few changes to your installation. Search in the files below for "DateExpire" and manually replace it with "DateExpires". Watch out for the upper and lower case spelling
/applications/dashboard/controllers/api/AuthenticateApiController.php
/applications/dashboard/models/class.sessionmodel.php
/applications/dashboard/settings/structure.php
Run /utility/structure afterwards.
Merry Christmas to everybody?
How to run these utility commands? Are they shell commans? I can't find such file structure and such executables? Ar they API? If so, how to run them?
This is now fixed in the release. Thanks, @R_J.
I redownloaded the release and I'm still getting the same error.
I can't run
/utility/structureor/utility/updatesince it redirects me to/dashboard/setup.This is what the DB structure looks like:
Here's the full error:
Invalid default value for 'DateExpires' ## /var/www/html/forum/library/database/class.database.php(407) #0 [internal function]: gdn_ErrorHandler(256, 'Invalid default...', '/var/www/html/f...', 407, Array) #1 /var/www/html/forum/library/database/class.database.php(407): trigger_error('Invalid default...', 256) #2 /var/www/html/forum/library/database/class.databasestructure.php(442): Gdn_Database->query('create table `G...') #3 /var/www/html/forum/library/database/class.mysqlstructure.php(313): Gdn_DatabaseStructure->executeQuery('create table `G...') #4 /var/www/html/forum/library/database/class.databasestructure.php(509): Gdn_MySQLStructure->_create() #5 /var/www/html/forum/applications/dashboard/settings/structure.php(292): Gdn_DatabaseStructure->set(false, false) #6 /var/www/html/forum/applications/dashboard/controllers/class.setupcontroller.php(248): include('/var/www/html/f...') #7 /var/www/html/forum/applications/dashboard/controllers/class.setupcontroller.php(86): SetupController->configure() #8 /var/www/html/forum/library/core/class.dispatcher.php(832): SetupController->index() #9 /var/www/html/forum/library/core/class.dispatcher.php(261): Gdn_Dispatcher->dispatchController(Object(Gdn_Request), Array) #10 /var/www/html/forum/index.php(29): Gdn_Dispatcher->dispatch() #11 {main}I suggest deleting all the tables + the
conf/config.phpand starting again.I tried that and received the same error again.
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04, using PHP 7.1 and MySQL 5.7 if that matters.
I believe your MySQL install is in strict mode. Are you able to change that?
See https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/issues/5832
It worked after I turned strict mode off.
Thanks!
I ran in to the same issue and after disabling strict mode in MYSQL now the v2.5 installer results in this error:
Invalid log level: Failed to insert {type} ({content}): {error}.
I'm running a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04, MYSQL 5.7 and PHP 7.0.22 and using a database from a Vanilla instance on another server.
Sorry ignore me, I just copied over the old config file and it ran fine without going through the install
structure.php
line 290
->column('DateExpires', 'timestamp', false)change it to
->column('DateExpires', 'datetime', false)