27 February 2009, 12:17

27 February 2009, 13:13

27 February 2009, 14:12

Hi George,

copy the files from htdocs to your directory

please post here the path of this direcory and please don't forget the config.php snippet

cheers
Heinz

27 February 2009, 14:17

thanks Heinz,

these are my settings:

/ database connection details
// valid values for dbtype are 'postgres8' and 'mysql5'
$cfg->dbtype   = 'mysql5';
$cfg->dbhost   = 'localhost';
$cfg->dbport   = null;
$cfg->dbname   = 'otsocial_demo';
$cfg->dbuser   = 'otsocial_user';
$cfg->dbpass   = '**********';

....

// applications (this happens most often on shared hosting)
$cfg->dbprefix = '';

....

// this is a big security hole.
$cfg->dataroot = '/var/www/vhosts/onyx-sy.net/httpdocs/otsocial';

the mahara is going to be on www.onyx-sy.net/otsocial

27 February 2009, 14:54

take care, that /var/www/vhosts/onyx-sy.net/httpdocs/otsocial  has permission 0777

What happens if you try to install? There will be created some di inside the dataroot folder

27 February 2009, 16:20

Greetings,

i got the same msg, and it did create a new folder "sessions".

 any clues ?

28 February 2009, 8:56

28 February 2009, 10:08

George , as I said to you - the problem is that you are confusing where your mahara installation files (php files) are, with the directory on the disk that needs to be created in another place, which is where files that are uploaded by users go.

This file is not allowed to be inside the folder that mahara's source code lives in.

 So if you have your mahara directory like

 /var/www/yoursite/htdocs/

you cannot put your data directory at /var/www/yoursite/htdocs/data

It must live some where else, for example, /var/www/yoursite/data.

28 February 2009, 11:39

the root of my website is "httpdocs" and i always place my files in it, i only have created a subfolder called "otsocial" and put them in it and direct the config file to that place, i dont know where is my mistake here !

and if i put mahara outside "httpdocs" i will not be able to call it. 

so "httpdocs" is usualy the place where i start to put my website files in.

28 February 2009, 13:24

i think the problem is solved it was a miss configration in the config file:

from:  $cfg->dataroot = '/var/www/vhosts/onyx-sy.net/httpdocs/otsocial';

to: $cfg->dataroot = '../otsocial';

now  i only need to upgrade MySQL versio, which give me a questioncould be so different between those two versions of MySQL that he couldn't make it run on both? "5.0.22" and "5.0.25" ?