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Hello all,

Ok, I've searched the forum for hours, and read the installation guide over and over, but I'm still having problems:

I've setup the config, but I can't get to step two.

I get the following errror:

"Fatal error: Failed opening required 'system/databases/mysql.class.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/html/clan/system/lib-database.php on line 110"

I have read & tried this but I still have problems:
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/install.html#failed-to-open

According to step one:

The complete path to this file is /var/www/html/clan/public_html/admin/install/install.php
and it appears your Path to Geeklog is /var/www/html/clan

So for $_CONF, i have the following: (and I also did CHMOD 777 the appropriate files/folders)

$_CONF['/var/www/html/clan/public_html/'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'public_html/';

Am I supposed to edit the line after the "=" for $_CONF or before?

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Always change things after the '=', not before.

bye, Dirk

Thank you for the fast reply.

I changed the line, but I still get the same error.

The original line was:
$_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'public_html/'

And the new one I changed it to is:

$_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['/var/www/html/clan/public_html'] . 'public_html/';

Does this look correct, or did I still do it wrong?

Thanks

You're changing the wrong thing. Is the comment just above that line not clear enough?


$_CONF['path_html'] and $_CONF['path'] are variable names - you shouldn't change them.

bye, Dirk

Sorry, I thought I had to do it becuase the documentation says to verify $_CONF['path'] for the error above.

Any other ideas, since the problem still occurs?

I'm a newbie too, but maybe I can help.

First, it would help if you copy & paste exactly waht is in your
config.php for the 2 variables $_CONF['path'] and $_CONF['path_html'].

Second, did you move your geeklog files in (other than public_html)
somewhere else, as suggested in the documentation?
If so, you cannot use the form

$_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'public_html/';

-- it won't work.

For example, I moved my geeklog files to /usr/local/geeklog/.
So in my config.php are the 2 lines

$_CONF['path'] = '/usr/local/geeklog/';
$_CONF['path_html'] = '/var/www/html/geeklog/';


If you did not move your geeklog files.
then this should work for you:

$_CONF['path'] = '/var/www/html/clan/';
$_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'public_html/';


Note that this may be a security issue though,
as explained in the documentation.

Tom

Not to make light of your situation but it looks like others have taken care of you.

You didn't work at Bell-Northern Research did you?

They used to have (and still do as Nortel, though it is far less used) a proprietary programming language PROTEL which is the only language I've ever seen where = went the other way. Actually, it wasn't an '=' (usually pronounced 'gets') but was '=>' and was/is pronounced 'guzzinta' which is short for "goes into". So you'd say "value guzzinta variable" rather than "variable gets value"

@tomath2o

I did not change anything else, so I will try your suggestion. Thank you for your time.

@amckay

Lol, nope. It was a bad question I know, but I wanted to eliminate all problems.