Version: 3.5.5 Reporter: judahnator —
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I am following the guide here: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/how_to/building_a_simple_news_site.html
My work has asked me to build an EE addon, but I have no experience with the platform. I thought maybe following how-to on setting up a simple site would be a good place to start, but I am getting an error in the “Creating a Channel” section. The error can be seen here: https://holdthis.net/files/15/Screenshot%20from%202017-04-12%2011-51-10.png
I can reproduce this fairly easily. Just follow these steps: 1. Setup a DigitalOcean droplet using their LAMP stack template 2. Upload the free version of EE from https://expressionengine.com/store#ee-core 2.1 I would use the paid version, but I cant afford to pay $299 just to learn how to use the platform 3. Follow the instructions to install from here: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/installation/installation.html 4. Follow the steps up to “Creating a Channel” from here: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/how_to/building_a_simple_news_site.html
I was able to get this error to occur on two separate servers, following the guides to the letter.
I must say I am a bit less than impressed so far, trying to learn a platform that breaks so easily when following the official docs. I hope this can get resolved soon!
~Judah
ExpressionEngine implements Markdown Extra and BBCode. Please see the Markdown Extra docs and the BBCode Wikipedia article for a full reference.
**bold**, __bold__, *italics*, _italics_, ~strike/del~, `code()`
bold, italics, strike/del, code()
Link: [link title](https://example.com)
Image: 
[blockquote]...[/blockquote], [quote]...[/quote], and Markdown style:
> Some quoted text. > > This is all one quote.
[code]...[/code], and you can also specify the language for syntax highlighting, [code=php]...[/code]
GitHub flavored Markdown code fences are also supported:
```
public function decoderRing($str)
{
return str_rot13($str);
}
```