Newbie Digibeet: Installing phpMyFaq on Suse 11.2
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:12 pm
Hello,
I read about phpMyFaq in linux magazine, and found it interesting, maybe to start as tool for my own notes.
I am using Suse 11.2 and 11.3.
This installation was not an easy task. It certainly does not run "out of the box". Altough I notice, the author has really tried to
make it as simple as possible.
It took me some hours to get it working. I had to add some code in the lighttpd config file, which I found somewhere on the internet.
Configuration of php.ini and cgi-php etc. I have no clue about what it all does. Finding the directory where to put the stuff was
already a big quest.
Then it took me a couple of hours to find out, I had to add a filename on the database file field in the main setup screen.
The error, about no connection to database, but not an error from database did not really help
Now it is very hard, to figure out what actually is going wrong, especially when I have no clue about how to find the error logs.
It is installed now, and I get some webpage, without any faq. Well, this is normal I guess, since I don't have added one.
I don't know if it is bad luck, but when I tryed a few times to send mail, I was unable to recieve any e-mail for over a day, in my normal
e-mail account. When it worked again, there are a couple of e-mails send to <webmaster@example.org> ??? I don't know how this all works, but the header got back looks very strange
This is NOT a complain, but more about providing some information about my struggle to install a sofware package, without knowledge
how things work ! I guess, this software is more for webpage administrators, who know exactly what all the stuff means.
The status now is, I can login, and go to administration mode.
However I always get back to the admin login, and then to the dashboard again.
This error I read in this forum already, and some answers about something in a php.ini file, and strange session.
But in the replay, there is NO real information for others, who get the same problem.
So I would like to have a php.ini file, which is know to work.
Then I can compare it with my ini file, and see if I can find what is going wrong.
php --version
PHP 5.3.3 (cli)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
Kind regards,
Rene
I read about phpMyFaq in linux magazine, and found it interesting, maybe to start as tool for my own notes.
I am using Suse 11.2 and 11.3.
This installation was not an easy task. It certainly does not run "out of the box". Altough I notice, the author has really tried to
make it as simple as possible.
It took me some hours to get it working. I had to add some code in the lighttpd config file, which I found somewhere on the internet.
Configuration of php.ini and cgi-php etc. I have no clue about what it all does. Finding the directory where to put the stuff was
already a big quest.
Then it took me a couple of hours to find out, I had to add a filename on the database file field in the main setup screen.
The error, about no connection to database, but not an error from database did not really help
Now it is very hard, to figure out what actually is going wrong, especially when I have no clue about how to find the error logs.
It is installed now, and I get some webpage, without any faq. Well, this is normal I guess, since I don't have added one.
I don't know if it is bad luck, but when I tryed a few times to send mail, I was unable to recieve any e-mail for over a day, in my normal
e-mail account. When it worked again, there are a couple of e-mails send to <webmaster@example.org> ??? I don't know how this all works, but the header got back looks very strange
This is NOT a complain, but more about providing some information about my struggle to install a sofware package, without knowledge
how things work ! I guess, this software is more for webpage administrators, who know exactly what all the stuff means.
The status now is, I can login, and go to administration mode.
However I always get back to the admin login, and then to the dashboard again.
This error I read in this forum already, and some answers about something in a php.ini file, and strange session.
But in the replay, there is NO real information for others, who get the same problem.
So I would like to have a php.ini file, which is know to work.
Then I can compare it with my ini file, and see if I can find what is going wrong.
php --version
PHP 5.3.3 (cli)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
Kind regards,
Rene