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1. eattheword
   Member
   9 posts

   I've finally managed to get the install package to run on OS X (installed in ~user-name/Sites rather than Library/Webserver/Documents) but now when I access index.php I get the error message:

   The PEAR package "MDB2" is missing or not installed

   I am running OS X 10.4.10, PHP 5.2.4 and PEAR 1.6.2

   which php gives /usr/local/php5/bin/php
   which pear gives /usr/local/php5/bin/pear

   and sudo pear list shows:
   Installed packages, channel pear.php.net:
   =========================================
   Package Version State
   Archive_Tar 1.3.2 stable
   Console_Getopt 1.2.3 stable
   DB 1.7.13 stable
   DB_DataObject 1.8.7 stable
   Date 1.4.7 stable
   HTML_BBCodeParser 1.2.2 stable
   MDB2 2.4.1 stable
   MDB2_Driver_mysql 1.4.1 stable
   MDB2_Driver_mysqli 1.4.1 stable
   Mail 1.1.14 stable
   Mail_Mime 1.5.2 stable
   Mail_mimeDecode 1.5.0 stable
   Net_SMTP 1.2.10 stable
   Net_Socket 1.0.8 stable
   PEAR 1.6.2 stable
   Structures_Graph 1.0.2 stable

   What's going on????

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. dancallaghan
   Member
   13 posts

   It looks like you might have more than one installation of PEAR. If you go into your php.ini file which should be located in the /etc directory there should be the line include_path=".:/usr/share/pear" or something along those lines which tells PHP where to look for your PEAR libraries. You can either change this include path to include_path=".:/usr/local/php5/bin/pear" or install the PEAR packages to this specific installation of PEAR. Hope this helps.

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. eattheword
   Member
   9 posts

   No joy.

   I've had a beast of a time trying to install omnium all round. The auto install *doesn't* create a folder on the web server with the name of the project. The manual install won't let me create a symbolic link to codebase/index.php and trying to access that file directly gives a 403 error. The auto install appears to work until you access index.php at which point I get the MDB2 error.

   There was an old version of Pear from PHP 4 on the system, but I thought I had got everything pointing to the new version. In any case, both versions of Pear have MDB2 installed. On my OS X system PHP5 is installed in /usr/local/php5. Can someone give me a list of *all* the settings needed to ensure harmonious working? That is, what should pear config-show give me back, and what folder should include_path in php.ini point to?

   Posted 2 years ago #

4. eattheword
   Member
   9 posts

   Update

   I scrubbed all evidence of Pear and PHP and reinstalled entropy's PHP5 and then installed the pear packages. After dealing with increasing the various file upload size settings I got *something* to run. I browse to localhost/~user_name/index.php and it takes me to localhost/~user_name/base and presents me with a login screen. I enter the username and password created during the install and it tries to take me to:
   http://localhost/~user_name/modules/news/
   whereupon I am told:
   You don't have permission to access /~user_name/modules/news/ on this server.
   Sigh.
   What am I missing?

   Posted 2 years ago #

5. eattheword
   Member
   9 posts

   Another update

   Ok, solved the last problem too. OS X 10.4 has a sub folder users in /etc/httpd. Although the main httpd.conf may be allowing symlinks to be followed, the individual user_name.conf file may not. A quick edit of the relevant /users/user_name.conf file to include FollowSymLinks in the Options section and all is well.

   Phew

   Posted 2 years ago #

6. dancallaghan
   Member
   13 posts

   Thanks for the updates and feedback. We are currently working on improving the installer and the installation instructions of the Wiki. We'll have to take these into things into consideration.

   Posted 2 years ago #

7. sambauers
   Administrator
   28 posts

   User directories are generally more restrictive in Apache than the Apache root directory.

   Most of the problems you are experiencing have to do with the funky OS X way of configuring Apache. A bit of digging around the Apache documentation should help you get the user directories opened up a bit.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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