Downloading Revolution via SVN

You’re sure the build process was successful? The setup page should be a usual MODx installation start page.

As far as I could see it executed successfully. It took 1.66805 seconds to complete (not unrealistic for a quad core with 8Gb ram), I then checked to make sure all the outlined files existed. eg manifest.php etc and they were all in place.

Just to double check what I did to execute the command was use shell and log in as root then browsed to the directory where my desired site is. Once I browsed tot eh directory I executed this line

php transport.core.php

from putty line and as I say I get a message saying it was completed within 1.6 seconds.

Even more than usual since this is alpha software, it helps if you include platform information regarding OS, web server, PHP and MySQL versions, etc., whether you have other systems already setup. And yes, to make sure, you need full write permission to the directory you are installing in from the user running the PHP process.

Ok,

CentOS 4.6 Final
Apache 1.3.39
php 5.2.5
MySQL 4.1.22 Standard

I have 0.9.6 running on this spec just perfectly (sweet as a nut). As for folder permissions, do you mean I should CHMod everything setup directory downwards or the main directory downwards?

Regards,

Tom.

Main directory downwards; just want to rule out permission issues first.

Hmm, ok I can confirm I have changed all files and directories to 777 fromt he main directory downwards and ran the execution of transport.core.php again.

Unfortunately however I am still seeing a blank white page when navigating tot he setup directory with the browser...

Guess #2, you have PHP configured with PDO, but without the mysql PDO driver?

I have the same problem like user "goldeagle". Setup is completly blank, nothing. So this mean I don’t have PDO driver installed. Apparently so.
phpinfo said > PDO drivers "no value"

Indeed I have checked also and I dont have PDO enabled in PHP and neither do I have the drivers installed for mysql.

At the risk of sounding daft, could I ask what these are used for and what they do? And also what they are subject to attack from (if anything)?

Many thanks,

Tom.

The non-techie version is that PDO allows you to use a unified way to access a variety of different databases (abstraction) in an object oriented way, but still giving you the option to execute optimzied native Database tools. The reason we’re using it in 097 and beyond is that we’ll eventually roll out versions of MODx that happily run on other databases such as MS-SQL or Postgres. PDO is a very good thing ... sorta like AdoDB, but a lot more robust and a much more modern take on the issue.

PDO (from Zend itself) and our own PHP 4-compatible (or if you don’t have the right drivers installed it _should_ still work) implementation/fallback form what’s the data access part of MODx via another opensource project. xPDO contains a lot of really cool capabilities for the super-geek-elites to reverse engineer databases and create APIs to access that data to incorporate into their projects. For instance and for reference, we’ve created API for internal use and testing to use the data stored in osCommerce (building our own catalog presentation), Mambo and a custom event tracking application.

The current 097 install from SVN will be completely blank, free of resources and add-ons. You’ll have to add them in yourself manually for now. You should get a blank page on the front end and you should get nothing in the trees in the Manager (context).

Come to think of it, I wonder if an empty site should at least display a "No website configured..." message?