Install Application-Newbie

Archived from the Xataface Users forum.

oneotaIT — Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:41 am

I used the Xataface Installer to create an application. I downloaded the tar.gz file to manually upload to my server- but I don’t know where to place it. Do I unpack it first and then how to access the application?

Thanks!

shannah — Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:32 am

If you have shell access then you can untar/zip it on the server. If you only have FTP access and your admin panel doesn’t give you a feature to untar/zip on the server, then you’ll need to extract it on your computer and upload the files individually.. could take a while.

Steve

oneotaIT — Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:39 am

Upacked the file in the xatabase directory. went to my domain/xataface/bulkproducts/index.php and told me I needed to make a templates_c folder. did that. now when I try to access it I get: Server Error. The website encountered an error while retrieving the domain It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.

shannah — Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:56 am

Best advice is to read one of the manual pages. Check out:
http://xataface.com/wiki/about
or
http://xataface.com/wiki/How_to_build_a … es_of_code
or
http://xataface.com/documentation/tutor … pplication

Typically you don’t want to place your application inside the xataface directory. You want to do it the other way around.

-Steve

oneotaIT — Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:04 am

Gotcha. That’s what I thought.

I’ve read all of those manuals…all morning

When I put the Xataface files into my app directory- do I leave them in the xataface folder or paste them in without the xataface directory?

shannah — Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:15 am

I guess you’re referring to this line:

Download the latest version of Xataface and copy it into your application directory that we just created. (i.e. myapp/xataface)

This means that you copy the xataface-1.3.2 directory into your application directory. In this example it has you renaming the directory to just “xataface”.

So your structure will look something like:

Code: Select all: /path/to/myapp/ +---- .htaccess +---- conf.ini +---- index.php +---- xataface/

oneotaIT — Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:20 am

Thanks. That is my exact setup and I’m still getting the server error. Hmmm………

shannah — Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:47 am

Check your error log

oneotaIT — Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:52 am

No clue how to do that

shannah — Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:11 am

You can check the troubleshooting page for some tips on seeing some error output… but this may or may not work in your case.
http://xataface.com/wiki/Troubleshooting

Your error log is your friend. If you don’t know where it is, then FIND IT! You can’t do much with your web server without it.

Common locations are /var/log/httpd/error_log,
but many hosting services will provide the error log in other locations relative to your home directory. If you don’t know where it is, then you need to find out from your host.

oneotaIT — Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:30 am

Thanks.

This is self hosted on a Synology Nas box. On a web host the error log is easy to find. This server-not much. Thanks. I’ll do some digging.

shannah — Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:49 am

What version of PHP and MySQL does that server run? Is it running Apache or some other web server?

oneotaIT — Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:30 am

Thanks.

This is self hosted on a Synology Nas box. On a web host the error log is easy to find. This server-not much. Thanks. I’ll do some digging.

shannah — Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:49 am

What version of PHP and MySQL does that server run? Is it running Apache or some other web server?