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For whatever reason I'm having one hell of a time trying to get this to work on my host (uplinkearth). They have it so you're given your main www root where it's read only, then you have a data directory outside of that for anything needing write permissions. The problem I'm having is with pathing. When I run that install.php it wants me to give the path at the bottom, but it won't accept what I take. It's a windows server and my host said that the path was "O:Hosted Web Sitesusernamemysite_comdata"
but geeklog isn't liking it. Any ideas to this one?

Hmm...that path didn't come out right...lets try this

Try using forward slashes, i.e. O:/Hosted Web Sites/username/mysite_com/data

bye, Dirk

Nope, still no luck. Sorry.

Okay, so now is the time where quoting the error message you get would be helpful ...

bye, Dirk

Okeeday, here's what install.php gives me:

Geeklog Installation - Error
Geeklog could not find config.php in the path you just entered: O:/Hosted Web Sites/username/website_org/data
Please check this path and try again.

And If found that if I replace that path with just a relative path like "../../../../data" then it'll work and setup the database, but after that all of the pages include that lib-common.php file and I guess whenever it tries to include it the whole thing bombs. It doesn't even give me an error message, just displays nothing at all. I'm sure that it's that include that's messing it up b/c if I put an echo line before and after the include only the one before displays. I'm guessing that what's not working is the data path inside that lib-common.php file. Anyhoo, I hope that's enough info for yah. Sorry it took so long to respond, I wrote that last message right before I went to work.

Hmm, well it sounds like it must be the wrong path. Is O: what your webserver uses, or is that your own mount point?

Stupid resale.
I HAD the same problem. I had to *censored* like hell to let me in the www. The easy way to say this is they made like a shortcut to your web files outside the of the path.
like so
var/something/www
and your config is
var/totalynewpath/memberfile
And thin there will be a file in it that will jump you your html file.
If they will not let you in, (and they can) no matter what you do.
There is only 2 other things you can do.
Re-code everything to go down 1 path and up one.
(I don't even know if it can be dune, and if it can be. It will not be fun)
2.Putting your files in the public html file and start the root from there. Mind you that is a big security risk.

The reason some of the host do this is cuz they put files in the www that can interrupt your service if you miss with them.
But it will only interrupt your service.
So just till them you will be responsible for those files.
And make sure to back them up if they agree.
I gessing this is what your talking about. And I am in now way good at coding.
So the GL staff may have a better Idea.
It just sounded like the problum I had.

Hmm...well the junky part is that the www folder they gave me is read only with no exceptions. So I can't put the stuff that needs writing in there no matter what. And yah, you're kinda right how they handle the file system. They give me "O:Hosted Web Sitesusernamemysite_comdata" for all the writing stuff and "O:Hosted Web Sitesusernamemysite_comwww" for all the other stuff. And as I said it won't wrok to just use relative pathing. I'm gettin really annoyed with this =.

Woohoo...looks like I finally got it sorted out. They gave me this as a path: O:Hosted Web Sitesusernamewebsite_comdata. But what heppened is when they sent it for whatever reason it didn't show up that there's actually 2 spaces between 'Hosted' and 'Web.' So adding that in solved everything. Thanx for tryin to help everyone. I appriciate it a lot.