[ SOLVED] installation problem (blank page during setup)

With the advanced distribution, the files outside of /core/ are extracted from the core transport package via the PHP process, and thus they are owned by the user executing the PHP process. Because of this, these files will be manageable by the PHP process, but not necessarily by your user account (in environments where PHP runs as the apache user).

Thank you for the insight. I noticed that some files have different permissions after installation. My workaround to delete and reinstall revo was to work on a subdomain and delete the whole subdomain in the control-panel.

Is it possible to check from phpinfo() whether php runs from apache user?

Is it the following??

apache2handler
User/Group apache(48)/48

Hello,

my installation doesn’t work, either. Installing on a web hoster server (1und1).

MODx 2.0.0 beta 3

MySQL Seerver Version: 5.0.67-log

PHP 5.2.10 (CGI)
memory_limit 128M
max_execution_time 30
MySQL Client API version 5.0.67

I can start setup, I enter DB user and password, I can connect to the DB. Then I continue. All pre-installation tests run successfull. Then I continue and get the blank screen. Well, it is not really completely blank, I get a 500 server error.

First I suspected memory_limit, but this is okay. Can it be the max_execution_time? I already changed it in the php.ini to 0, but this had no effect (however, I do not know if the php.ini was parsed at all).

What else could it be?

Thanks
Martin

There are some things to try with an Error 500 here: http://bobsguides.com/modx-installation-faq.html

Also, If your host uses suPHP, you need a line in .htaccess to specify where the php.ini file is:

Thanks!

But it still does not work. All required directories are writeable, config-file is writable (DB connection is stored), the suPHP directive throws a different error, so I won’t need it.

I’ll try it on a different hoster’s server.

Martin

same error here -= installation fails at with an empty white page!!

I’m running Mamp - all the necessary directories are writeable - I really don’t know what else to check.

Quote from: mmjaeger at Jul 29, 2009, 04:23 AM

same error here -= installation fails at

http://modx.mydomain.com/cms/setup/index.php?action=options

with an empty white page!!

I’m running Mamp - all the necessary directories are writeable - I really don’t know what else to check.

http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/revolution/Fresh+Installation
http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/revolution/Troubleshooting+Installation

still no luck

1. What is your server environment? (MAMP is not specific enough, tell us PHP version, MySQL version, Apache version)
2. What browser/OS + version are you on?
3. Are there any errors in core/cache/logs/error.log?
4. Is this a fresh installation?
5. Is this beta3? Advanced or Traditional?
6. Is PDO configured properly? Is the pdo_mysql extension installed?

Quote from: splittingred at Jul 29, 2009, 01:02 PM

1. What is your server environment? (MAMP is not specific enough, tell us PHP version, MySQL version, Apache version)
2. What browser/OS + version are you on?
3. Are there any errors in core/cache/logs/error.log?
4. Is this a fresh installation?
5. Is this beta3? Advanced or Traditional?
6. Is PDO configured properly? Is the pdo_mysql extension installed?

1. PHP: 5.2.6, Apache 2.0.59, Mysql 5.0.41, PDO Driver for MySQL, client library version
2. tried latest Safari as well as Firefox
3. no error.log - no logs directory in the cache folder
4. fresh installation
5. beta3, traditional
6. PDO seems to be installed.

anything else you need to know

What’s the contents of your:

setup/includes/core.config.php

and what’s your memory_limit set at.