Revolution Beta 4 install issue on Windows

Hi,

I’m trying to install MODx into a virtual directory on a Windows Server.

But I keep getting this error:

FATAL ERROR: MODx Setup cannot continue.

* Make sure you have specified a valid MODX_CORE_PATH in your setup/includes/config.core.php file; this must point to a working MODx core.
* Make sure your /core/cache directory exists and is writable by the PHP process.

I have double checked the permissions so I think it must be an issue with the path.

The browser path is this:

http://server/modxrevo/setup/

I have tried setting the path to this:



I’ve also tried "modxrevo/core/", "core/" and "/core/" but with no success.

Any ideas?

Thanks for looking.

Ok, have you checked this

Make sure your /core/cache directory exists and is writable by the PHP process.

?

Quote from: mwalsh at Oct 21, 2009, 06:12 PM

FATAL ERROR: MODx Setup cannot continue.

* Make sure you have specified a valid MODX_CORE_PATH in your setup/includes/config.core.php file; this must point to a working MODx core.
* Make sure your /core/cache directory exists and is writable by the PHP process.

The browser path is this:
http://server/modxrevo/setup/

I have tried setting the path to this:

<?php
define('MODX_CORE_PATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/modxrevo/core/');
define('MODX_CONFIG_KEY', 'config');

I’ve also tried "modxrevo/core/", "core/" and "/core/" but with no success.

Well, MODX_CORE_PATH must be an absolute path. I’m assuming you’re talking about editing the config.core.php in /modxrevo/setup/includes/config.core.php, which means your:


Wont work because that points to /modxrevo/setup/includes/modxrevo/core/.

You need:


Or something similar.

Thanks for the swift responses.

Yes I have double checked the permissions.

I’ve confused the issue as I pasted the code snippet from the config.core.php in the root in my first post rather than the setup one.

This is the code I have in the file here: /modxrevo/setup/includes/config.core.php



I have also tried the variants I mentioned in my prevous post here as well but with no success.

Thanks.

I’ve tried using this code in the setup config file:



The error massage changes to this:

FATAL ERROR: MODx Setup cannot continue.

* Make sure you have specified a valid MODX_CORE_PATH in your setup/includes/config.core.php file; this must point to a working MODx core.
* Make sure your D:\folder\folder\modxrevo\setup/core/cache directory exists and is writable by the PHP process.

The forward and backward slashes in that path are probably an issue?!

Just to completely rule out the permissions, I have run a quick test and I was able to create a file in the cache directory using PHP.

I’m sure this path can’t be too difficult to crack.

Do 3 dirname() calls instead of 2.

I have managed to get it installed but I’ve had to hard code the absolute file path using forward slashes but it does work using the 3 dirname() calls too. At the moment I’m getting a blank page again when I try to access the manager. This was happenning on the setup page as well until I got the paths working correctly.

I’ve taken a look in the core/config/config.inc.php file and some of the paths had a mixture of backward and forward slashes. I have changed them to all forward slashes which worked to get the setup process working but still no joy.