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Mrs. Flinger
Posted: 22 April 2008 04:17 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hi, I’m installing EE for a client at http://kidsfaith.org/member using an IIS server. I ran the wizard.php to check compatibility (http://kidsfaith.org/member/wizard.php) and all required fields passed.

I checked the forums and only found one instance of this error here: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/32820/

The solution here was to go in to IIS and set the user name. Since this is a remote server, is there another solution I can use? I checked permissions on the file itself, set to 777.  I manually inserted the information in the config file and uploaded it as well as the path.php file based on the information on both files in the WIKI. But EE still isn’t working properly and goes to the install.

(I’ve removed the install.php file for now)

Any help is welcome. I’m not use to IIS servers. (Ack, sputter! Use Unix…)
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Sue Crocker
Posted: 22 April 2008 05:10 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Mrs. Flinger, there are two issues with IIS servers.

One is that you have to Force Query Strings and you’ll need to check with the posting account on how to set the config.php to be the equivalent of Unix’s 666 setting.

EEKB: Main Page Content Appears on Every Page

Does that help?

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Posted: 22 April 2008 09:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Thank you, Sue. I’m off to check that out now… (And how did I miss that KB article? I thought I looked! Tsk Tsk.)
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Mrs. Flinger
Posted: 23 April 2008 12:38 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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I’ve done both of those suggestions and now I constantly get that the path isn’t set correctly. I have it set as ./edit because I changed it from system to edit. I’ve done every possible path I can think of to get to the edit folder and I always get that same error.

I’m noticing I get a 510 error when I try to change permissions on the server. This might be something I have to contact the sys admin about?
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Posted: 23 April 2008 12:51 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Are you meaning this setting in your path.php file?

$system_path = "./system/";

In my IIS install, that is what it is set to.

You’ll need to manually edit that file.

As far as writing to the config.php file, I usually modify that by hand on IIS servers too.

But yes, you should talk with the server admin.

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Mrs. Flinger
Posted: 23 April 2008 12:55 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Thanks, Sue. I’ve manually edited both the config.php and the path.php file and put them on the server. I still get a blank page so I changed the index.php - $qtype = 2; With no luck.

Is it because I have EE sitting in a subdirectory? I’ve seriously never had trouble with EE before on Unix servers. Baffled.
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Posted: 23 April 2008 01:03 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Would you be able to look at my index.php, path.php and config.php files to let me know if they’re correct? I can’t see an error but apparently there is one. Maybe fresh eyes will help?
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Mrs. Flinger
Posted: 23 April 2008 01:57 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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An update: I have the path set correctly now. Hi, windows servers? \ not / duh.

Anyway, now I’m getting an unexpected T_STRING on line four of path.php

Here’s the line:
$site_url =“http://kidsfaith.org/member/”;

I don’t see any freaky quotes or missing collons or anything. I’ve been staring at this too long, though. Is it obvious?
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Mrs. Flinger
Posted: 23 April 2008 02:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Hi, Ugh, Sorry.

I’m not sure if this is related to the first issue or not, but I keep getting parse errors in my path.php file. I’ve copied the core one from WIKI:

<?php
$system_path = "./system/"; //(I changed this to my folder)
$template_group = "";
$template = "";
$site_url = "";
$site_index = "";
?>


But I get a “path not set” with this file. So I do this:

<?php
$system_path = ".\system\";
$template_group = "";
$template = "";
$site_url = "";
$site_index = "";
?>

And I get a Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘“’

Help?
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Sue Crocker
Posted: 23 April 2008 05:03 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Who is the host?

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Posted: 23 April 2008 05:08 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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Try making a showpath.asp file and upload it to your system directory.

<%@LANGUAGE=VBSCRIPT%>
<%=Server.MapPath(".")%>

See what the path says there.

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Mrs. Flinger
Posted: 24 April 2008 10:52 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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c:\hosting\webhost4life\member\mcjimbo\member\edit

Is there any way I can have you look at the files? I have a deadline friday and I’ve been installing this for three days. Thank you. (My client is getting frustrated with me, understandably)
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Posted: 24 April 2008 10:57 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]  
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The directory EE is installed in is: c:\hosting\webhost4life\member\mcjimbo\member

The directory the system folder is: c:\hosting\webhost4life\member\mcjimbo\member\edit

my path.php had $system_path = “.\edit\”; and I got “path not set correctly”.
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Posted: 24 April 2008 12:21 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]  
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I’ve used webhost4life—they have a control panel if I remember correctly.

If you can send me an email with the following:

FTP login information
Your welcome letter for the account.
A link to this thread. Click on my profile link and send the mail that way.

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Posted: 24 April 2008 09:45 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]  
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Mrs. Flinger, you’re all set now. Please check your email.

It had to do with the file permissions on ISS. I had to reset them on a new directory.

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Housekeeping.

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