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getting "file expired" message in trying to install 30 day trial of EE2

John St-Amand — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:21:40 GMT

Hi there - I just downloaded the EE2 trial and tried to upload it to my new account on Engine Hosting and when i go to complete the install, i get the following error:

Fatal error: This file has expired. in /www/eh13436/public_html/system/expressionengine/installer/core/Installer_Config.php on line 0

What do I do now? I’m really anxious to get started familiarizing myself with EE2.

Thanks,
Jean

Moved to 2.0 beta trial support by Moderator

Your config file does not appear to be formatted correctly.

chrisx — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:51:43 GMT

Thank you for reading. Trying to get a feel for EE, I have downloaded the EE 2.0 trial,
unzipped the files in an Apache htdocs directory, and right away I get an error:
Your config file does not appear to be formatted correctly.

If I do this with CodeIgniter, I get the Welcome view.
I do not have any htaccess rules defined anywhere.
This is the software I am using, if it helps.

EE 2.0 30-day Trial with Zend Optimizer
ZCE 5.0 (ZendServer-CE-5.0.1_RC29-5.3.2-Windows_x86)
—- Apache/2.2.15 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.8n
—- PHP 5.3.2
XP Pro SP3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100216-1514: Service Pack 3)
Zend Optimizer 3.3.3
Also Zend Guard 5.1.0 EA, after reading a different thread:
http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/138453/

And, taking a peek for myself…

system\core\Common.php on line 241 reads:


if ( ! isset($config) OR ! is_array($config))

Yet system\expressionengine\config\config.php is a zero-byte file

Am I to create the $config array here to bypass the error?

Thank for your help!

Chris

“A PHP Error was encountered” while installing a fresh copy of EE

GuettaBlaster — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:28:50 GMT

This question may be related to a resolved thread.

While installing a fresh copy of demo EE on linux with PHP 5.2.9 and Zend Optimizer 3.3.9 I get following errors after submiting the installation process:
—-
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Use of undefined constant AJAX_REQUEST - assumed ‘AJAX_REQUEST’
Filename: core/EE_Exceptions.php
Line Number: 56
——
——
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Use of undefined constant AJAX_REQUEST - assumed ‘AJAX_REQUEST’
Filename: core/EE_Exceptions.php
Line Number: 62
————

Standard Global Variables Question

PeeTER — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:48:36 GMT

Hi,

I’m converting a 1.x site to 2.x and I make use of the {bio} tag as a standard global in my templates. I noticed in the docs for 2.x beta the {bio} variable, among several others, is no longer listed as as standard global variable. I’m wondering if this is an oversite or it is it a depreciated feature.

Currently the global works even though it’s not listed. Please let me know what’s up with this.

Thanks!

Peter

Change captcha colours

simontmitchell — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:27:44 GMT

I want to change the default captcha colours to match my website design.

I read another thread on how to do this in 1.* but the file structure seems different in 2.0.

I’ve found the file captcha_pi.php in ./system/plugins/captcha_pi.php and made the the following changes (should now be blue-green not pink),

// -----------------------------------
    //  Assign colors
    // -----------------------------------
    
    $bg_color        = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
    $border_color    = imagecolorallocate ($im, 191, 218, 218);
    $text_color        = imagecolorallocate ($im, 70, 173, 172);
    $grid_color        = imagecolorallocate($im, 122, 182, 183);
    $shadow_color    = imagecolorallocate($im, 236, 238, 238); 

but it has had no effect. Any advice?

Simon

What template tags are allowed in an entry?

twaddington — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:43:24 GMT

I’m trying to use a snippet tag in a channel entry and it doesn’t seem to be working. What template tags are allowed in channel entries?

A PHP Error was encountered when trying to create a custom field

alandickinson — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:40:41 GMT

Having this same problem - Can I update my trial version to the full version without doing a full reinstall?

Thanks.

[Mod Edit: Split into a new thread from here

Garbled characters in 2.0 Public Beta Trial when unzipped

Garden-variety Fool — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:57:35 GMT

I just tried downloading the Trail version of the public beta with the aim of installing it for a client to try out, but when I unzipped the files and uploaded them to the server, I encountered the following message when attempting to install EE:

Fatal error: Unable to read 16234 bytes in /path/to/system/expressionengine/core/EE_Config.php on line 0

Looking at that file, I see that everything from line 11 onward looks something like this:

・ﾍ}[・G描NUﾍﾐT3ｨ･;ZYﾗﾘKﾛ@ｻ3#2"#ﾍﾚ焉ｼcl醤ﾆｰﾝ跛VUvﾕ賓ﾝ{ｹ塁ｲ焜・齣ZBB鑓XB4鎤ﾏFｰdﾏﾇ0Vk%ｾ,$>@xﾌ葦眦{Ndfﾄ烏・wwﾕ9拓:q箴・､ﾙ數dｼ|dｴ;xxｺgｨ<岾BI!yﾁU剳ｩLｴ$G_ｿ4)ｾ・・ﾂﾟ,g'ﾃjｱ・>p!K9蹕JU<ｼ7;椣ﾎf"ﾏﾋ\ﾂ'5Y]OｪaxｹZ槝ﾊ2Wｹ・C    俍砧咐4+dｩ･ﾀ8Z,Fﾗﾏf9胙 

At first I thought maybe I had uploaded the files incorrectly, but I checked the local copies and found out they are the same way. Is it supposed to look like this? I’ve tried a number of different ways of unzipping the files, but the results always seem the same.

Are there any special steps to unzipping/uploading the Trial files that I should be aware of?

Rss Template Error

geisterwerker — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:28:42 GMT

Hi,

Im trying to generate my feed with with RSS 2 Atom. Here is the template:

{assign_variable:master_channel_name="portfolio"}
{exp:rss:feed channel="{master_channel_name}"}

="1.0" encoding="{encoding}"?>
<rss version="2.0"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
    xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">

    <channel>
    
    <title>{exp:xml_encode}{site_name}{/exp:xml_encode}title>
    <link>{site_url}link>
    <description>{channel_description}description>
    <dc:language>{channel_language}dc:language>
    <dc:creator>{email}dc:creator>
    <dc:rights>Copyright {gmt_date format="%Y"}dc:rights>
    <dc:date>{gmt_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}dc:date>
    <admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://expressionengine.com/" />
 
{exp:channel:entries channel="portfolio" limit="10" rdf="off" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
    <item>
      <title>{exp:xml_encode}{title}{/exp:xml_encode}title>
      <link>{site_url}link>
      <guid>{title_permalink=site/index}#When:{gmt_entry_date format="%H:%i:%sZ"}
      
<description>{exp:xml_encode}{excerpt}{/exp:xml_encode}description>
      <dc:subject>{exp:xml_encode}{categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories}{/exp:xml_encode}dc:subject>
      <dc:date>{gmt_entry_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}dc:date>
    item>
{/exp:channel:entries}
    
    channel>
rss>

{/exp:rss:feed} 

Here is the error:

“This page contains the following errors:
error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.”

What am I doing wrong here? Running v2.0.2pb01

Many thanks,
G

Frustrating format problems!

philipdring — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:16:43 GMT

Hi,

Despite hours and hours of lost production time reading forums and the beta documentation, I am unable to resolve a critical problem concerning unwanted tags in my edit form. Apparently, any custom field tags, regardless of the channel or field configuration, add paragraph tags to data added using the standalone entry form. I’m using the latest version of the public beta 2 and urgently need to resolve this problem. Please can you help?

[Mod Edit: Moved to the EE 2.0 PB: Trial Support forum]