Installation problem

[prismukcom]

Hi there

When we are trying to install phpmyfaq onto Windows 2003 Server with IIS6.0 when we try to setup, it is saying the database.php file is not writeable. When we rename database.php-dist to database.php it then says the database is already isntalled and we cannot get any further with the setup and installation.

We have tried to run the update script but it says we have the latest version already.

Any ideas anyone?

Many thanks.

[Thorsten]

Hi,

the folder config/ have to be writable by IIS.

bye
Thorsten

[prismukcom]

Hi Thorsten,

Thanks for your quick reply. I've just double checked and the installation directory and configuration file are both writable but we still achieve the same error message,

Thanks again for your continued support

[Thorsten]

Hi,

if the message still appears, it's not writable for the IIS user.

bye
Thorsten

[prismukcom]

Hi

We have set that folder as writable now and it creates the database.php file then comes up with the following error


Error: Please install your version of phpMyFAQ once again or send us a bug report.

DB error: Incorrect string value: '\xE2\x88\x9A\xE2\x80\xA2' for column 'stopword' at row 1

Query:

INSERT INTO faqfaqstopwords (id, lang, stopword) VALUES (171, 'da', 'f��')

Any suggestions. Thanks again for your help.

[Thorsten]

Hi,

which database server do you use?

bye
Thorsten

[prismukcom]

Hi there

It is MySQL 5.1 running on PHP5 with IIS6 on Server 2003.

We have tried already deleting and recreating the db.

Also tried different table prefixes.

Thanks again. Ben

[Thorsten]

Hi,

please try it using UTF-8 as charset when creating the database.

bye
Thorsten

[prismukcom]

Hi there,

That worked and the installation has completed successfully.

Thanks again for your support