Problems installing

Archived from the Xataface Users forum.

Tim_Myth — Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:43 am

I downloaded the tarball, and unzipped in a folder in my WAMP www directory (WAMP 2.0). I granted Write and Modify permissions to the Users group (Windows XP Pro SP 3). I installed Pear and enabled short_open_tags then restarted WAMP. To install Pear I followed these directions(in case the tag is stripped: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 251AAbk6kz) and installed the .reg file created by go-pear.bat. Now when running http://localhost/xataface/dataface_info.php or http://localhost/xataface/index.php I get this error:

Code: Select all: `Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0
Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required ‘C:/wamp/www/xataface/dataface_info.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\php5\pear’) in Unknown on line 0`

I’m certain the issue is in the include path since c:\php5\pear does not exist, but since the error occurs in an unknown file, I don’t know which file to edit to fix that.

I’ve tried finding the troubleshooting section (http://framework.weblite.ca/documentation/error which redirects to http://xataface.com/documentation/error) referred to in the installation instructions (http://xataface.com/documentation/tutor … stallation), but that link (http://xataface.com/documentation/error) is broken. Does anyone have a functional link to a troubleshooting section? I have a feeling that I’ll need.

Also, looking at the source for index.php, I see lots of settings that are obviously specific to Steve Hannah’s machine (ie: init(__FILE__, ‘/~shannah/lesson_plans’);). Did I somehow get a beta distribution or a development distribution? Where’s the latest stable release?

shannah — Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:39 am

The error suggests that the file that it failed to open was dataface_info.php not your pear files. One thing that I have run into in the past is sometimes webservers won’t allow you to access PHP scripts directly if they are writable, as a security measure.

The correct permissions for the entire xataface folder and its contents are 0644 (i.e. readable only). The only thing that needs to be writable is your application’s templates_c directory.

On a side note, the dataface_info.php file isn’t really all that helpful. You might as well just try to make your first app and then troubleshoot the errors you get from there.

-Steve

shannah — Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:51 am

Sorry. Directories need to be 755. All files can be 644. The key is the the files/directories should not be writable.

Tim_Myth — Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:52 am

Silly me. I saved the zip file to my desktop first which caused it to be encrypted which of course caused the unzipped files to be encrypted. Unencrypting the files fixed my issue.

Company policies can be such a hassle.

mauxin — Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:07 am

Hi,

I am trying to create an application with an exisiting database. But I ma getting this message.

Warning: include(install/install_header.inc.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\xataface\install\mainMenu.inc.php on line 1

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘install/install_header.inc.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:lib’) in C:\xampp\htdocs\xataface\install\mainMenu.inc.php on line 1

Please select your installation action

Create application for existing database

Use this option if you already have a database on your server and you would like to create an application based on this database.

Install a pre-built application

Use this option if you have a ready-made Dataface application that you wish to install on this server.

Warning: include(install/install_footer.inc.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\xataface\install\mainMenu.inc.php on line 27

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘install/install_footer.inc.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:lib’) in C:\xampp\htdocs\xataface\install\mainMenu.inc.php on line 27

Please help.

shannah — Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:26 am

Check the permissions on the install/install_header.inc.php . Make sure that it exists and is readable by the web server.

-Steve