Problems Installing Revolution (beta 5)

Quote from: OpenGeek at Dec 20, 2009, 09:23 AM

Ignore mhash/mcrypt, I don’t believe these are required for Revo; these were leftover requirements from Evo.

mhash and mcrypt are used by assorted PHP applications:

phpMyAdmin uses mcrypt for example.

You are running Centos -- are you by any chance running SELinux? What is the policy for httpd and mysql?

If the permissions needed changed and were updated on the fly -- this would explain the "not work" and "then works" weirdness you experienced.

I have mine set for enforced, and not allowed in user directories, etc...

Hi, first big thanks to the team who created this masterpiece! I am new to revolution, but very impressed with ModX evolution...
I am trying to do a clean install of this beta version on two different server installations, and I am experiencing the same problems; Cannot connect to the database, and both pulldowns (encoding) show only a single option. Prior to the installation I created an empty DB with an user account (fully authorized) on both systems.

Configurations:
1) Linux, PHP Version 5.2.3, MySQL - 4.1.20, Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora)
2) OSx, PHP Version 5.3.0, MySQL - 5.1.38, Apache/2.2.13 (Unix)

regards, Jeroen

I have the same issue.

Brand new server setup, never had any website or database installed on it before, and I get the same screen. I’ve attached an image for you to see what I am seeing.

I would be very grateful to resolve this soon.

Daniel

I have the same issue, too (fresh install):
In DIV ID: modx-db-step2-msg:

→ Create or test selection of your database.
Checking database:Could not connect to the mysql server.

Previously I had build the DB with phpMyAdmin manually. Charset/Collation utf8_general_ci

LAMP: Apache2, PHP 5.2.0, mysql 5.0.32, pdo_mysql, zlib,
magic_quotes_gpc:off, execution time: 120, memory limit: 128M,
safe_mode: off, Register_globals: off
Firefox 3.5.6

You’ll need to provide both your MySQL server and MySQL client API versions for anyone to assist further, but I can tell you that PHP 5.2.0 is full of bugs that could affect PDO, as is 5.2.3.

I don’t understand why people run such old software? IMO, you should be running at least 5.2.6 at minimum, and I try to keep up with latest so I get important bug fixes in PHP as quickly as possible.

Well, at home-office I develop on an local Debian 4 Etch.
In knowledge of this "old" system, I sat up a new fresh Debain 5 Lenny.
During the installation of MODx Rev Beta 5 the setup said, the MySQL-Client 5.0.51a is buggy.
But in the stable branch of Debian Lenny the highest MySQL-Client is 5.0.51a-24.
http://packages.debian.org/stable/mysql-client
Serveral times I try to install an other MySQL-Client (backports and testing branches, too) -
without success.
Now, I change my development-system to ubuntu (with the same package-management "aptitude" as
Debian). Now, ubuntu contains "up to date" packages - so as MySQL-Client, too. The install of
Revolution was without problems and now I can try the new MODx.

Quote from: Jeronemo at Dec 27, 2009, 10:19 AM

Configurations:
1) Linux, PHP Version 5.2.3, MySQL - 4.1.20, Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora)

Running F12 here.

Try going to http://localhost/ and see if it returns a 404 or something.

I’m not looking at apache as much as I am SELinux.

Post your SELinux Profiles for httpd and myqld

I’m still unable to install this on my own server. I did successfully install it on my shared account with Bluehost. Anything else that’s worth trying? Is it something where I should dig into the JIRA issues myself? (hey I’m willing)

Quote from: Everett at Dec 21, 2009, 01:09 AM

I just re-tried this with display_errors=On and with error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT
I didn’t see any errors, and there was nothing in the logs other than the favicon.ico missing.

Right after I click "Next" from the install contexts page, I end up on a white screen. I’ll try the various PHP configurations and see if I can’t make that work.

Everett, that really sounds like either your memory_limit is too low, or you have a corrupted file somewhere.

If it can create one table, it ought to be able to create all of them since it’s just repeating the same process.

Hi,

I had the same problem. I first installed Modx on one computer, and then tried to install it using the same set of files (minus the main config file) on another. I think that some temporary files are generated during the installation process, and this messes up subsequent installations.

I hope that helps someone else.

- Jay