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I seem to be falling down on my very first step.
On my server, I do not have a directory public_html
Am I understanding that I am to upload the CONTENTS OF the public_html folder INTO the root of my domain OR am I supposed to upload the DIRECTORY 'public_html' into the root?

The second part of the installation, everything outside the public_html directory, do I create a new DIRECTORY on my server, name it something, then place everything except the contents of public_html into IT and then edit my path on config.php accordingly? (config.php would then be INSIDE this directory whatever I call it)?

Sorry for these (probably) stupid questions and Thanks!

If you are installing geeklog on a hosted site, you probally have a directory like htdocs that would be the target directory for your site URL. So if I placed a index.html file in that htdocs directory it would be display when I entered my sites URL - such as www.example.com.

This is your public_html directory then. The files like lib-common.php, index.php, admin diretory and layout directory - just to name a few would be located in this directory. These are public accessible files and accessed directly by a URL.

The non-public files like config.php, and directories like system, language, logs, plugins etc ... are not accessed directly by the user via a URL. The webserver needs to be able to access them but they are included in via the PATH and not a URL. So this allows you to place the config file and other system related files outside the webtree.

I hope that helps

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Very Much so!
I'll see what I can do....
Thanks!

I may be out of my WEB tree: not sure 'outside the webtree' is, obviously.

Fatal error: Failed opening required '/web/sites/rav4rvn/lowcarbmania.com/config.php/system/databases/mysql.class.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /web/sites/rav4rvn/lowcarbmania.com/system/lib-database.php on line 110

Thanks for your patience!

It appears you may not have your $_CONF['path'] set correctly. I can see from the error message that you have config.php (the filename) as part of the path.


Let us know what your $_CONF[path] and $_CONF[path_html] variables are set to

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Wow, you guys are great!

I've made changes now but before I attempt an install I'll wait to hear back from you as I had to drop the tables and clear the db to start over. Here's what i have the settings and they reflect where these directories are:
$_CONF['path'] = '/web/sites/rav4rvn/geeklog/

$_CONF['path_html' = '/web/sites/rav4rvn/lowcarbmania.com/

my fingers are crossed and I'll await your verdict.

Those settings look good

You should not have to re-install or anything that effects the database. Running the install.php makes any needed database changes and would generate an error if it was not able to find your site config.php. If the install script completed you can safely change your $_CONF parms afterwards. Sometimes after a site has been installed, I may re-organize the site files. All thats needed is to update the $_CONF settings.

Although, if this is a new site, there is no harm in deleting all the tables and re-installing. It's good practice to get familiar and really the only way to learn.

Many first time users can safely just restore all the files under the one site directory and they would only need to set $_CONF[path]. They could then at a later time move the non public_html files to a directory outside the public accessible area and update the $_CONF[path] and set $_CONF[path_html].

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Geeklog components by PortalParts -- www.portalparts.com

thanks, Blaine!

I'm off to give it a go.

Fatal error: Failed opening required '/web/sites/rav4rvn/lowcarbmania.com/config.php/system/classes/timer.class.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /web/sites/rav4rvn/lowcarbmania.com/lib-common.php on line 113

hmmmmmmmm. I guess maybe these directories (backups, docs, language, logs, plugins, sql and system) should be outside the public_html but NOT inside a directory named 'geeklog' which is outside the web tree and IN which I placed the config.php. am I right? anyway, I'm not going to keep asking you to do this for me, I'll just keep at the darn thing till I make it work.

I DID IT!!!
Thank YOU!

oy! that was before I looked at the plug-ins!

I'm sure I'll be back. Thanks in advance.