smf install borked?

Submitted by midol on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 11:52

I tried to install a smf forum using the install scripts feature and when I tried to access it got the message described here:

http://www.virtualmin.com/node/12540

I then made a new folder in the document root for the domain called forum and it worked as expected. I also did this for another domain to check. In both cases the manual install produced a working smf forum while the script led to the message:

Connection Problems Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

So choked.ca/smf (the script's default name) gives the error, choked.ca/forum doesn't.

It seems to me that this script may need tuning. It was the point of getting VMPro that I wouldn't need to do the tuning.

Dave

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 12:33

Odd, it works fine for me. Was this SMF 1.11.1 you were installing?

Also, which PHP execution mode is set at Server Configuration -> Website Options ?

Submitted by midol on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 13:27

Apache mod_php (run as Apache's user) is set in website options

Powered by SMF 1.1.8 is the one I was able to successfully install by hand.

Dave

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 18:14

Ok, I see the bug now .. some permissions were not set correctly for mod_php mode.

This will be fixed in Virtualmin 3.76. A work-around till then is to use fcgid mode for the domain.

Submitted by midol on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 13:11

Thank you very much. That works nicely.

Dave

Submitted by Issues on Fri, 12/25/2009 - 19:19

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.