I’m trying to complete an installation of MODx. The host is SuSe 10.1 with php 5.1.2. The installation instructions for MODx were followed...
1. Unzip files
2. Chmod 777 assets/cache, assets/export, assets/images and chmod 666 assets/cache/*
3. Open url, follow the instructions on the screen.
When it gets to the "Connection Information" page, I enter the database name and user and click the test connection button, it just hangs with a "Testing connection" message.
If I open a terminal session, I can open the database up with the username and password.
If I go back to the "Connection Information" page and put garbage in for the database name, username and database host, I get the same results... "Testing Connection" just stays there, but no error messages. I’ve tried it in IE6, IE7 and FireFox 1.5.
I searched the forums and found a post about php 5.1 not being supported and that was likely the cause. But I also read some posts where people said they were running php 5.1.
Do you think its PHP 5.1 thats causing this? Is there something I could check? Any work arounds?
Thanks
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I’m running on 5.1.2 on my MAMP installation with no problem at all. I don’t know how to help with your problem, but just want to let it be known that it does work.
Since the test of the connection tries to validate your DB-Configuration (username/pass/name of db) perhaps the problem is rather with the MySQL version not the php version? Which MySQL version are you running?
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MODX Staff
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Another possibility is that the mysql extension is not configured on your PHP installation; by default, mysql extensions are no longer configured/included in PHP 5.1+, replaced instead by PDO and a PDO driver for MySQL (and various other db platforms).
