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MultiformeIngegno

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Troubles during installation
« on November 6th, 2012, 06:50 PM »Last edited on November 6th, 2012, 07:04 PM
Alpha 2. I uploaded everything in a /forum/ dir owned by www-data (that runs PHP) and chmodded 777. Moved /forum/root files to /forum
When I go to /forum/install.php I get the error:
This installer was unable to find the installer's language file or files. They should be found under:
/forum/Themes/default/languages

They're there. I can even access via browser the file (for example) /forum/Themes/default/languages/Admin.french.php (of course a white page, but no 404 error).
PHP logs are blank

Setup:
PHP 5.4.8
nginx: 1.3.8
APC: 3.1.13
mysql: 5.5.28

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Re: Troubles during installation
« Reply #1, on November 6th, 2012, 07:06 PM »
I am unable to reproduce this one both with french and english setup options. The only thing I can think of is that you may be lacking the english language files?

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Re: Troubles during installation
« Reply #3, on November 6th, 2012, 11:41 PM »
Odds are it's your permissions. There is no reason everything should be 777.
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Re: Troubles during installation
« Reply #5, on November 7th, 2012, 12:01 AM »
Still think it's a permissions problem because if it weren't, it would have affected everyone...

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Re: Troubles during installation
« Reply #6, on November 7th, 2012, 12:15 AM »
Quote from Arantor on November 7th, 2012, 12:01 AM
Still think it's a permissions problem because if it weren't, it would have affected everyone...
I really don't know what else to try. :(
It's in the same VPS of a SMF install (same permissions and same user www-data)..
maybe I should try to reupload files..?

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Re: Troubles during installation
« Reply #8, on November 7th, 2012, 12:42 AM »
Folder perms should be 0755, not 755.
File perms should be 0644.

Or maybe it's the other way around... But don't forget the 0 which indicates it's an octal number. Otherwise your permissions will fail.

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Re: Troubles during installation
« Reply #9, on November 7th, 2012, 01:46 AM »
Quote from Nao on November 7th, 2012, 12:42 AM
Folder perms should be 0755, not 755.
File perms should be 0644.

Or maybe it's the other way around... But don't forget the 0 which indicates it's an octal number. Otherwise your permissions will fail.
Those are what mine are and the install of Alpha 2 went fine (Hostgator shared hosting).

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Re: Troubles during installation
« Reply #10, on November 7th, 2012, 08:16 AM »
Wondering if the missing 0 was the problem indeed... ;)
(I remember I got fooled by it for quite a few minutes, long ago.)

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Re: Troubles during installation
« Reply #12, on November 7th, 2012, 04:02 PM »
Arantor (I think) mentioned this somewhere:
Disable [Admin -> Server & Maintenance -> General -> Enable compressed JS/CSS].

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Re: Troubles during installation
« Reply #13, on November 7th, 2012, 05:14 PM »
Looks to me as though there are issues with the css and js folders and their permissions. Disabling it is merely a band-aid.

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