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Well, this is about my fourth attempt to install Forums...I meticulously followed the directions & corrected several mistakes on previous attempts, went thru the archives in this forum with a fine-toothed-comb...same result, something's still wrong with my install.

Forums doesn't show up on the plugin admin page.

Any suggestions as to what I check? Which steps in the install cause this exact symptom, I'll check those specific ones again...

The one anomoly I know of is, I can't unzip the install package on the linux server, so I unzip on my local windows machine & WS-Ftp sends it all as binary, which "shouldn't" be a problem according to a previous post.

Thanks for any help!

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com

To get more specific, here's my install:


create (geeklog_dir)/htdocs/forum
mv public_html/* (geeklog_dir)/htdocs/forum/*

create (geeklog_dir)/htdocs/admin/plugins/forum
mv admin/* (geeklog_dir)/htdocs/admin/plugins/forum/*

create for ea theme (geeklog_dir)/htdocs/layout/(each layout)/forum
create for ea theme (geeklog_dir)/htdocs/layout/(each layout)/navbar
cp themefiles/forum/* (geeklog_dir)/htdocs/layout/(each layout)/forum/*
cp themefiles/navbar/* (geeklog_dir)/htdocs/layout/(each layout)/navbar/*

add add'al-forum.css (geeklog_dir)/htdocs/layout/(each layout)/style.css

mv lib-portalparts.php (geeklog_dir)/geeklog-1.3.8/lib-portalparts.php


Thanks again for any help!

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com

...and register_globals is ON, according to the admin/install/info.php page.

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com

...and I just stepped thru dailyquotes, it's much less complex & I wanted to see if the install would work there.

Same thing--plugins admin just doesn't see dailyquotes or forums--options to add the plugins don't appear.

File/dir protections look right, no new entries in log files, absolutely no clues are appearing...which should in itself be a clue...



To sum up I've double-triple-etc checked:
- target directory locations
- dir/file privs
- register_globals on
- 2 different plugins (forums multiple times)
- log in as admin
- log files getting no new entries

OK, I'm going to lunch! Any ideas, suggestions, help would be much appreciated.

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com

this may not be your problem, but..
did you run the install scripts? the plugins will not show up on the plugin admin page untilll you've run a plugin's install script. just type this addy in your bar, <site_url>/admin/plugins/dailyquote/install.php.... similarily for the forum. once the install script runs, geeklog well see the plugin.

if that's not your problem, sorry.

Run the install script manually?! Much laughter on this end, duh!

Machinari, you hit it on the head! As soon as I ran into them not showing up on the plugin admin page, I didn't read further in the instructions--both mention doing this.

Both scripts choke immediately, same problem in each, I'll post a new question on the board (unless I figure it out first) so the new problem has an appropriate title...I'm searching the archives & not finding hits on the keywords I'm using, maybe I'll help out the next people with this same new problem find their answer...

Thanks a million!
Tom

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com

OK, with machinari's great help, I finally discovered what's wrong.

Running the scripts manually revealled errors, which when corrected, caused these plugins to appear on the "new plugin" section in plugin-admin, with "install" options.

The docs say to uncompress to (geeklog-dir)/plugins, creating (geeklog-dir)/plugins/forum, I didn't realize it means ..../domain-name.com/geeklog-1.3.8/plugins/forum, so all my files were in ..../domain-name.com/plugins/forum. (Substitute dailyquote for forum, for that second plugin.)

As soon as I mv'd the directory, I achieved success. So be careful about where you uncompress.

Thanks again, Machinari!

HEY ALL--in a day or two after Jan 18 2005, visitwww.southparkcity.com if you're curious about the region in Colorado that spawned the cartoon, though this site isn't about the cartoon at all.

Tom

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com