I have successfully installed modx (it said)
Login.
I get to a screen with a top bar
with content media extra manage etc on it
and a big blank expansive space
I click on any thing (like import html) and nothing happens.
Nothing, nothing, nothing, no errors, no list of files and big complete absence of anything.
Not very encouraging.
I'm a new user very unskilled in fiddling with server stuff.
kevin
Also when the script set up the database it along the way it gave me a screen which had a database user name cl40-et-etc
and a ********* in the password field.
I had NOT been asked to set a password.
The screen also said 'DO NOT CHANGE ANY VALUES.
so I left things as they were but have no idea what the password was.
Any ideas what it would have been set to or where it would have got the value from?
kevin
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As far as the partial screen, that sounds like you'll have to go into the database, and in the modx_system_settings table, find the settings for compress_js and compress_css, and change them from 1 to 0.
I have no idea where that installation information came from. Perhaps from your browser caching a previous form, when you created the database?
Did you use a script that your host provided to install MODx?
Typically, with MODx installs, you first create your database, and then during the process of intalling MODx, you enter the user name, password, and path to the database.
If using phpMyAdmin to view the database... click on your database name. Then, click on the Search button. Type compress_js to search for that item. A bit lower on the screen you can select which tables to look in. Just click on modx_system_settings. Once a result is returned (probably will have found 3 items, click on "Browse"
Check the box next to compress_js and click "Edit"
If the setting in the value column is "1", click on the little pencil icon to edit, and change the "1" in the value column to a "0" (note: do not put the quotation marks)
Repeat the process searching for compress_css
So, if you're this far in and the settings were already 0, then try changing the name of the ht.access file that was installed with MODx to be .htaccess. (select the ht.access from within your hosting panel file manager and rename it from ht.access to .htaccess.
IMPORTANT: First, back up any .htaccess file in place, by renaming it to ht.access.bak in case you need to backtrack.
It sounds very much like you used a script provided by your host to install MODX, so the problems you're having are most likely the fault of whoever wrote that script. Such scripts don't always work, and when they don't, the host usually blames MODX.
I generally don't trust such scripts. There are a variety of methods for installing MODX, so if you don't get anywhere, you can just delete everything and try another method. Here's the one I use:
http://bobsguides.com/blog.html/2013/03/24/installing-modx-part-i/.
One note that might help: There are two sets of credentials involved. One set is the username and password of the database *user* created to access the database. That's done through cPanel and has nothing to do with MODX, except that MODX needs those credentials to connect to the database. The second set is the username and password that you use to log in to the MODX Manager.
It's possible that the script you used set the two sets of credentials to be the same, but I would consider that a bad idea with respect to security. A specific user should be created with full rights to the MODX database, but not to other databases in your account. Separate credentials should be used for the Manager.
Welcome to MODX.
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I will go a bit further here, and say that I have never had a MODX installation that was installed by one of these scripts work properly. Some more so than others, even using the same installer script, but there was always something wrong. Sometimes I could fix it, other times I couldn't and had to re-install.
I would have put it more strongly, but I only tried one (Scriptaculous, IIRC). It failed miserably and I never tried one again.
