Brand New 1.5 Install Problems...

[wkitty42]

i've read many of the messages in this forum concerning a new 1.5 install... the problem that i'm seeing doesn't seem to have been discussed or fixed in the fixes and updates from 1.5b4f1 all the way up thru the latest 1.5b5f2... namely, that problem is that the data in the server info screen is black on black!

for example, i click on "server info" under utilities. at the top of the screen, i get a black box titled "basic information"... in the bottom left corner of that box, i see "Display full PHP info" in blue text. when i move the mouse over that, it turns green with an underline.

i see the same thing with the graphics modules box...

viewing the source for that page shows the TD tags ending with bgcolor="#" so it appears to me to be a stylesheet problem but i can't locate it at the moment.

FWIW: i'm accessing the site with Mozilla 1.4 if that means anything.

[wkitty42]

i thought i'd drop back by and see if there were any answers yet... seeing that there aren't, i thought i'd work on this thing a bit more...

here's the method i followed...

1. Exhibit Engine 1.5 beta 4 (incl. fix pack 1) FULL INSTALL

edited the two needed files and then copied everything over my LAN to my server into /TheGallery so as to not mess up my existing EE v1.22 setup in /gallery

2. Exhibit Engine 1.5 beta 4 fix pack 2

ran 15_b4_fix_pack_2.php as required...

3. Exhibit Engine 1.5 beta 5 (this file updates only from 1.5 beta 4 fix pack 2)

ran 15_b5.php as required... also went into the EE input editor index page one time after this update as the docs state... then exited and went to the next step...

4. Exhibit Engine 1.5 beta 5 fix pack 1
5. Exhibit Engine 1.5 beta 5 fix pack 2

copied the above to the server as required...

6. went straight into /TheGallery/input to set up and test the ftp servers... that's where i am now because the text in the boxes is black on black and i cannot see it unless i drag over it to hilite it.

7. i've gone ahead and added a new server and then updated it to my needed settings. clicking on the test link gets me one page refresh with nothing in the ftp results... further clicks on the test link don't do anything at all...

i've even gone back to ground zero and cleared everything out and started again... several times... even going all the way back to clearing out the database in mysql and recreating it again... maybe i'm flailing at nothing... i dunno... what i do know is that the ftp server doesn't even register an attempt by the system to log in so i must be missing something in the ftp capabilities in my php... however, dragging across that black box seemed to tell me that i do have the needed ftp capabilities...


[BASIC INFO]

Server signature: Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.xxxxxx.com Port 80
Server name: www.xxxxxx.com
Server protocol: HTTP/1.1
Http accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
Http accept encoding: gzip, deflate
MySQL version (reported by MySQL server): 3.23.58
PHP version: 4.3.4
Database in use: gallery

[GRAPHIC MODULES]
GD


GD 2 STATUS IS: OFF
TO MAKE SURE THAT GD 2 REALLY WORKS, AND TO SET ITS STATUS FOR EE, PLEASE RUN THE TEST PAGE

GD 1 STATUS IS: OFF
TO MAKE SURE THAT GD 1 REALLY WORKS, AND TO SET ITS STATUS FOR EE, PLEASE RUN THE TEST PAGE


Imagick Pear

IMAGICK WRAPPER MODULE IS NOT INSTALLED ON THIS SERVER.


ImageMagick

EE HAS FOUND IMAGEMAGICK OR GRAPHICSMAGICK FROM SAVED PATH.

IMAGEMAGICK STATUS IS: OFF
TO MAKE SURE THAT IMAGEMAGICK REALLY WORKS, AND TO SET ITS STATUS AND PATH FOR EE, PLEASE RUN THE TEST PAGE


EXIF


EXIF STATUS IS: OFF
TO MAKE SURE THAT EXIF REALLY WORKS, AND TO SET ITS STATUS FOR EE, PLEASE RUN THE TEST PAGE



FTP

EE HAS DETERMINED THAT PHP FTP MODULE IS INSTALLED ON THIS SERVER.


FUNCTIONS: ftp_connect | ftp_ssl_connect | ftp_login | ftp_pwd | ftp_cdup | ftp_chdir | ftp_exec | ftp_mkdir | ftp_rmdir | ftp_nlist | ftp_rawlist | ftp_systype | ftp_pasv | ftp_get | ftp_fget | ftp_put | ftp_fput | ftp_size | ftp_mdtm | ftp_rename | ftp_delete | ftp_site | ftp_close | ftp_set_option | ftp_get_option | ftp_nb_fget | ftp_nb_get | ftp_nb_continue | ftp_nb_put | ftp_nb_fput | ftp_quit |

TO MAKE SURE PHP'S FTP INSTALLATION IS WORKING PLEASE DO ALL FTP TESTS ON FTP SERVER PAGE. SECURE FTP IS NOT YET SUPPORTED.


IPTC


IPTC STATUS IS: OFF
TO MAKE SURE THAT IPTC REALLY WORKS, AND TO SET ITS STATUS FOR EE, PLEASE RUN THE TEST PAGE

so what am i missing? i know that the FTP stuff is available and i know that GD2 is built in... EXIF is also available... what am i missing? :? :cry:

[wkitty42]

while digging thru the code, i saw that the "problem area" was in the ui_color stuff and the ee_hexcolorshifter... seems that that stuff wasn't being called or included or something... i tried adjusting the include path as allowed in fetchsettings but that failed... in looking at why that was failing, i suddenly noticed that the /input/ index page should have been printing the version number but it wasn't... hummm... looking closer, i suddenly realized that there were many portions of the code that were

<? print something ?>
rather than

<?php print something ?>
whoa! :shock: :shock:

i specifically keep short_open_tag turned off in my php so as to not confuse things with other scripting lanuages... as a "quickfix" i added "php_value short_open_tag on" sans quotes to the .htaccess file in the root of the gallery installation...

geezzzzzzz... a whole darned day "wasted" just because of that one setting :shock: :shock: oh well, it ain't the first time! now maybe i can get the ftp stuff tested...

[Pekka]

Sorry for sleeping while you pondered this question (time difference) :)
I will make all tags <?php in next version so that this does not confuse people and you can keep short tags off.

If you still want to keep short tags disabled in your php.ini, you can use any regexp search/replace tool (I use Homesite) to search and replace all the EE's short tags <? or <?= (short hand for "<?php print") with <?php

The regular expression to find all short tags in a file is

<\?[^ph]

[wkitty42]

Sorry for sleeping while you pondered this question (time difference) :)
I will make all tags <?php in next version so that this does not confuse people and you can keep short tags off.
thank you, pekka... its not a problem, really... at least now i know what the problem is/was... i can wait till your next release... or not... its no matter to me, really... as i said, i just put the setting the the .htaccess file in the installation directory and that took care of it... just make sure that it is documented as one of the needed php settings... it can be set in the php.ini (which requires a restart of the server and php) or it can be put in the .htaccess file where it takes effect immediately...

i'm just trying, now, to figure out how i want to put the exhibits into the gallery... i'm not sure if i want to do it the same way i was with 1.22 or not... and i'm curious as to how the thumbs and microthumbs come out 8)

i've got to get some pics in and see how it compares to 1.22 speedwise... my database is running on a linux box while the server and EE are installed and running on an OS/2 box... no, that's not a mac or apple thing... ;) OS/2 is an IBM thing that win95 and up are derived from...