Answered Hosting hell!!!

HI There,

I have a customer who has already signed up for hosting on 1and1 (yes, I know...)

I cannot even install modx on there - when i try to run the setup, I get this error:

FATAL ERROR: MODX Setup cannot continue.

To use PHP 5.3.0+, you must set the date.timezone setting in your php.ini. Please do set it to a proper timezone before proceeding. A list can be found here.

I found the php.ini settings (there's no actual physical file I can access, just a settings page) but there is no option to update the date.timezone setting

Obviously I have tried to contact 1and1, but no response - what a surprise..

Just wondered on the off chance if anyone has come across this before, and found a way around it?!

Thanks in advance!

Andy

Hi Andy,

To setup a modx-page on an "1und1" host just edit the index.php file in the "setup" folder and add this line right before the other "@ ini_set" in the top:



Just edit your timezone from "Europe/Berlin" to your timezone. After that you should be able to setup your modx.

Jan

Jan,

You are a life saver - it worked perfectly.
Thank you so much!
I love the modx Community!

:)

It connected to my database fine:

Connecting to database server: Success!
- Checking MySQL server version: OK! Running: 5.5.44-0+deb7u1-log
- Checking MySQL client version: OK! Running: 5.0.11-20120503-$Id:15d5c781cfcad91193dceae1d2cdd127674ddb3e$

..but when I click → Create or test selection of your database I get this error;

Checking database: MODX could not create your database. Please manually create your database and then try again.

Any ideas?

Forget my previous comment - for some reason '1und1' decided to change the name of my database to the one I chose - of course they did!! lol

Thanks again for your help

Hi Andy,

i never had that problem. it is always a pleasure to work on a "1und1" server ... always new problems...

Does that post may work for you: https://forums.modx.com/thread/76142/error-on-installation-please-help

Jan

Yep all fine now thank you! (sory, I've just had nothing but problems with 1and1 - I think the problem is their tech support is bad - but then again, they are very cheap - you get what you pay for i guess!

Quote from: jdaehne at Oct 02, 2015, 05:15 AM

Hi Andy,

To setup a modx-page on an "1und1" host just edit the index.php file in the "setup" folder and add this line right before the other "@ ini_set" in the top:

@ ini_set('date.timezone', 'Europe/Berlin');

Just edit your timezone from "Europe/Berlin" to your timezone. After that you should be able to setup your modx.

Jan

i would set this in the php.ini file rather than in the index.php

Quote from: comp_nerd26 at Oct 02, 2015, 06:21 AM

Quote from: jdaehne at Oct 02, 2015, 05:15 AM

Hi Andy,

To setup a modx-page on an "1und1" host just edit the index.php file in the "setup" folder and add this line right before the other "@ ini_set" in the top:

@ ini_set('date.timezone', 'Europe/Berlin');

Just edit your timezone from "Europe/Berlin" to your timezone. After that you should be able to setup your modx.

Jan

i would set this in the php.ini file rather than in the index.php

Yep - if you check the thread the problem was that with the 1and 1 hosting, that timezone setting doesn't appear int he php.ini settings, and you cannot edit the actual php.ini file, hence the workaround.

in 1and1 control panel you can change the php.ini settings. i have 1and1 and have done this many times