Automated fault finder

[essenz]

Hi

I've spent easter weekend doing this install.. and the procedure I followed is this:

unpacked into c:\apache\htdocs

CHMOD directories as per install instructions.

System is
Win xp pro
Apache 1.3.29
MySQL 4.15
PHP4.3.4

configuration file:
[code:1:f2287a93f3]$mosConfig_lang = 'english'; // Site language
$mosConfig_absolute_path = 'c:\apache\htdocs'; // No trailing slash
$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://192.168.0.2'; // No trailing slash
$mosConfig_sitename = 'Bizhhelp'; // Name of Mambo site
$mosConfig_shownoauth = '0'; // Display links & categories users don't have access to
$mosConfig_emailpass = '1'; // Send new registration passwords via e-mail
$mosConfig_offline_message = 'This site is down for maintenance.<br /> Please check back again soon.';
$mosConfig_UseBanner = '1'; // Use banners 0 = No, 1 = Yes
$mosConfig_lifetime = '900'; // Session time
$mosConfig_MetaDesc = 'Bizhhelp';
$mosConfig_MetaKeys = 'bizhhelp';
$mosConfig_debug = '0';
$mosConfig_locale = 'en_GB';
$mosConfig_offset = '0'; // Local time offset
$mosConfig_hideAuthor = '0';
$mosConfig_hideCreateDate = '0';
$mosConfig_hideModifyDate = '0';
$mosConfig_hidePdf = '0';
$mosConfig_hidePrint = '0';
$mosConfig_hideEmail = '0';
$mosConfig_enable_log_items = '0';
$mosConfig_enable_log_searches = '0';
$mosConfig_sef = '0';
$mosConfig_vote = '0';
$mosConfig_gzip = '0';
$mosConfig_multipage_toc = '0';
$mosConfig_allowUserRegistration = '1';
$mosConfig_error_reporting = -1;
$mosConfig_error_message = 'This site is temporarily unavailable.<br />Please contact your System Administrator.';
$mosConfig_link_titles = '1';
setlocale (LC_TIME, $mosConfig_locale); // Country locale[/code:1:f2287a93f3]

Copied Gayle's test.php script and ran it with these results:

Test Result Details
MySQL support in PHP Passed
MySQL login Passed
MySQL database selection Passed
Absolute path Passed
Live site Passed
Extra characters in configuration.php Passed
FTP client mangled filenames Passed

Now when I go to /administrator/index.php I get these errors:

Warning: main(c:\apache\htdocs.'/version.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\apache\htdocs\classes\mambo.php on line 28

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'c:\apache\htdocs.'/version.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in c:\apache\htdocs\classes\mambo.php on line 28

Warning: main(c:\apache\htdocs.'/classes/database.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\apache\htdocs\classes\mambo.php on line 30

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'c:\apache\htdocs.'/classes/database.php' (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in c:\apache\htdocs\classes\mambo.php on line 30

Is it a problem with the $mosConfig_absolute_path = 'c:\apache\htdocs'; statement or what is causing this?

BTW this is running on a local network.. hence the 192.168.0.2 address.

tia

essenz

[essenz]

Hi

I got this all working and I'm not sure what I did....

Anyway I'm at a admin login loop, I used the web based install programme and set the admin pass word, but it loops back to the login screen with a popup error saying "incorrect username, password or access level."

Now as I'm progressing this has got to be something simple that I overlooked in the ????

Any suggestions?

TIA

essenz

[thesprinklerguys]

Originally Posted by essenz

Hi

I got this all working and I'm not sure what I did....

Anyway I'm at a admin login loop, I used the web based install programme and set the admin pass word, but it loops back to the login screen with a popup error saying "incorrect username, password or access level."

Now as I'm progressing this has got to be something simple that I overlooked in the ????

Any suggestions?

TIA

essenz

I am not 100% on this but I seem to remember Mambo having some difficulty with IP addresses being used as the $mosConfig_live_site.

If I may suggest you make a small change to your Apache httpd.conf.
Change [code:1:2b3d445258]ServerName 192.168.0.2[/code:1:2b3d445258]
To something like [code:1:2b3d445258]ServerName bizhhelp[/code:1:2b3d445258]
Save your changes and restart Apache.
Change your $mosConfig_live_site to $mosConfig_live_site = 'http://bizhhelp'
Now you should be able to reach your site by going to http://bizhhelp

[essenz]

to thesprinklerguys,

Since I posted the previous message and you posted yours, I've managed to get the "whole" thing to work, what was causing it was a faulty p/w, I read on the Administration forum somewhere about editing the mos_users -table and I pasted the md5 password from the mambo.sql file into the database using phpMyAdmin..

I noticed that when I was logged in I was getting a php error saying that the "include_path" syntax was wrong..

I knew it would be something simple...

This is getting better and better... but I must admit, this ain't for the faint of heart.. you do need to be prepared to perservere and you will be rewarded.

Thanks for all the help, directly and indirectly, which I'd like to add - all the problems seem to have been encounted before, so for anyone wishing to get answers to their particular install issues, scan this forum, I'm sure you'll find the answer.

essenz

[debocracy]

(Below is the code to an experimental fault finder. The idea is that you copy the code into a file, save it to your host in your Mambo root, then point your browser at the script and do as it suggests. )

When it says copy code into file, I understand that I must paste the code into notepad and save it, but what do I name the file? What file extension name do I use?

Is it something like help.php? ops:

[tonyskyday]

Originally Posted by debocracy

(Below is the code to an experimental fault finder. The idea is that you copy the code into a file, save it to your host in your Mambo root, then point your browser at the script and do as it suggests. )

When it says copy code into file, I understand that I must paste the code into notepad and save it, but what do I name the file? What file extension name do I use?

Is it something like help.php? ops:

Name it whatever you want, and give it the extension .php.



-Tony

[benrudolph]

I was stumped until I ran this script. THANK YOU!!!

[hwint]

Wow, that script really helped!! :P Thank you!!

However, first I had to get your "problem finder" script above to work!

The problem was I copied from Internet Explorer and paste into WordPad. This is a no no! The PHP system was not able to parse it correctly. So I copied and paste your script into my PHP editor (Crimson Edit), saved it to my web host, and it worked fine.

Your script found that my problem had to do with the text formatting of the file "configuration.php"

I had previously edited it using WordPad. Again, I cut and paste the text of "configuration.php" into Crimson Edit, saved, uploaded to my site, and it worked!

Thanks for the great script!

[AjnabiZ]

Thanks for the excellent script

[dmnk]

heya,

I have a big problem...in the first post I see be script like this:

[code:1:7ec6dd1b71]<?php
require "./configuration.php";

// Database connectivity tests
if (!function_exists( 'mysql_connect' )) {
$mysql_support = 0;
}else{
$mysql_support = 1;
if (!(@$mysql = mysql_connect( $mosConfig_host, $mosConfig_user, $mosConfig_password ))) {
$mysql_login = 0;
}else{
$mysql_login = 1;
if (!mysql_select_db($mosConfig_db, $mysql)) {
$mysql_select = 0;
$mysql_select_errno = mysql_errno($mysql);
$result=mysql_query("SHOW DATABASES", $mysql);
$databases=mysql_num_rows($result);
for ($i=0;$i<$databases;$i++){
$mysql_databases[$i]=mysql_result($result,$i,0);
}
}else{
$mysql_select = 1;
}
}
}

but the real one have to look like:

<?php
require "./configuration.php";

// Database connectivity tests
if (!function_exists( 'mysql_connect' )) {
* $mysql_support = 0;
}else{
* $mysql_support = 1;
* if (!(@$mysql = mysql_connect( $mosConfig_host, $mosConfig_user, $mosConfig_password ))) {
* * $mysql_login = 0;
* }else{
* * $mysql_login = 1;
* * if (!mysql_select_db($mosConfig_db, $mysql)) {
* * * $mysql_select = 0;
* * * $mysql_select_errno = mysql_errno($mysql);
* * * $result=mysql_query("SHOW DATABASES", $mysql);
* * * $databases=mysql_num_rows($result);
* * * for ($i=0;$i<$databases;$i++){
* * * * $mysql_databases[$i]=mysql_result($result,$i,0);
* * * }
* * }else{
* * * $mysql_select = 1;
* * }
* }
}


does anybody have an ideea about how to view the full good script?

[RainMan]

Thnx Gayle,

Here's your code with a bit of color (just a little ). Sometimes a little color can make the difference...

Grtz,
RainMan

====== code ======

<?php require "./configuration.php";

// Automated fault finder v1.0
// author: Gayle
// date: February 25th, 2004, 09:26 PM
// minor edit: RainMan 11-06-04
// - added some layout

// Database connectivity tests
if (!function_exists( 'mysql_connect' )) {
$mysql_support = 0;
}else{
$mysql_support = 1;
if (!(@$mysql = mysql_connect( $mosConfig_host, $mosConfig_user, $mosConfig_password ))){
$mysql_login = 0;
}else{ $mysql_login = 1;
if (!mysql_select_db($mosConfig_db, $mysql)){
$mysql_select = 0;
$mysql_select_errno = mysql_errno($mysql);
$result=mysql_query("SHOW DATABASES", $mysql);
$databases=mysql_num_rows($result);
for ($i=0;$i<$databases;$i++){
$mysql_databases[$i]=mysql_result($result,$i,0);
}
}else{
$mysql_select = 1;
}
}
}

// Absolute path
$abpath = getcwd();
//if($mosConfig_absolute_path!=$abpath)
$config_abpath = 0;
// else
// $config_abpath = 1;

// Live site
$host = $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"];
$path = pathinfo($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$path = $path["dirname"];
if(strlen($path)==1)
$path = "";
$livesite = "http://".$host.$path;
if($mosConfig_live_site!=$livesite)
$config_livesite = 0;
else $config_livesite = 1;

// Spaces in configuration.php
$configfile = implode("", file("configuration.php"));
if(strlen($configfile)!=(strrpos($configfile, ">")+1))
$config_blank = 0;
else $config_blank = 1;

// FTP client filename mangling
if(!file_exists("administrator/js/ThemeOffice")){
if(!file_exists("administrator/js/themeoffice")){
$ftp_mangling = 0;
}else{
// No FTP mangling, still a potential problem though
$ftp_mangling = 1;
}
}else{
$ftp_mangling = 1;
}

// Output gathered data

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Automated fault finder v1.0</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
}
h1 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-style: bold;
}

th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: bold;
}


/* PASSED */

h2 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-style: bold;
color: green;
}

/* FAILED */

h3 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-style: bold;
color: red;
}
-->
</style>

<body>
<h1>Automated fault finder v1.0</h1>
<hr />
<p>The script
MUST be in your Mambo root and you must have a configuration.php file. It's
kind of hard to diagnose problems without one.<br />
If you are having troubles with the automated installer then create your configuration.php by hand before running
the script.</p>
<p>Current faults it can diagnose are:</p>
<p>
*Incorrect live site<br />
*Incorrect absolute path<br />
*No PHP support for MySQL<br />
*Invalid MySQL username/host/password<br />
*Incorrect database name (suggests valid names)<br />
*Incorrect MySQL user privileges<br />
*Extra whitespace characters after ?&amp;gt; in configuration.php<br />
*Filenames mangled to lower case by FTP client
<br />
<br />
In all cases the script will advise you on what further action to take in an attempt to resolve the issue.</p>
<hr />
<br />

<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Test</th>
<th>Result</th>
<th>Details</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL support in PHP</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_support==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_support==0) echo "If you are on a hosted webserver then please contact your host.<br/>" ."If you are hosting yourself on Windows then I suggest trying miniserver" ."as your PHP/MySQL/Apache solution. Download from " ."<a href=\"http://miniserver.sourceforge.net\">http://miniserver.sourceforge.net</a>.</br>" ."If you are self hosting on *nix then either recompile PHP with MySQL support or check" ."your distro docs on how to add it in using the provided packages.";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL login</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_login==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_login==0) echo "Access was refused.<br/>Check your database username/password in configuration.php.<br/>" ."Check that the user exists on your MySQL database and has the correct password." ."Check that the hostname is correct and not being blocked by a firewall.";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL database selection</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_select==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_select==0){ if($mysql_select_errno==1049){ echo "The database $mosConfig_db does not exist. Current valid databases " ."are listed below</br></br>"; foreach($mysql_databases as $row){ echo "$row<br/>"; } echo "<br/>If none of these is the database you wanted and you are " ."certain the database exists then make sure you have granted the correct " ."permissions to your user.<br/>" ."If the database does not exist then you must first create it."; } if($mysql_select_errno==1044){ echo "User $mosConfig_user does not appear to have the correct permissions granted " ."on database $mosConfig_db.<br/>Grant the user the appropriate privileges."; } }?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Absolute path</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_abpath==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_abpath==0) echo "Your absolute path appears to be wrong in configuration.php. Please " ."change it to the following.<br/></br>\$mosConfig_absolute_path = '$abpath';";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Live site</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_livesite==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_livesite==0) echo "Your live site appears to be wrong in configuration.php. Please " ."change it to the following.<br/></br>\$mosConfig_live_site = '$livesite';";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Extra characters in configuration.php</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_blank==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_blank==0) echo "Your configuration.php seems to have characters after the final closing >.<br/>" ."This is not allowed and will cause errors with session handling. Remove everything</br> " ."after the final >.</br>" ."Do not use the cpanel text editor, it hasd a known bug that inserts blank lines at " ."the end of the file.";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>FTP client mangled filenames</td>
<td>
<?php if($ftp_mangling==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($ftp_mangling==0) echo "Files that should be contain upper case characters appear to be all in lower case.<br/>" ."Please ensure your FTP client is not set to convert all filenames to lower case and reupload Mambo.";?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<p>made by <a href="http://forum.mamboserver.com/member.php?userid=385">Gayle</a>, February 25th, 2004, 09:26 PM</p>
</body>
</html>

====== end code =====

[terry73]

Hello, great script, maybe someone could help me troubleshoot mine. I am attempting to install mambo on a windows 2000 machine, with apache/mysql/php bundled in EasyPHP. On trying the faultfinder this is the error I get:

Your absolute path appears to be wrong in configuration.php. Please change it to the following.
$mosConfig_absolute_path = 'c:\program files\easyphp1-7\www\koreanschool';

Copying the above line to my configuration file doesn't resolve the error.

Any help would be highly appreciated^^:
My configuration file is as follows:
<?php
// $Id: configuration.php-dist,v 1.26 2004/02/05 14:35:32 saka_car Exp $
/**
* Example configuration.php
* @package Mambo Open Source
* @Copyright (C) 2000 - 2003 Miro International Pty Ltd
* @ All rights reserved
* @ Mambo Open Source is Free Software
* @ Released under GNU/GPL License : http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
* @version $Revision: 1.26 $
**/
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
// If you are installing Mambo manually i.e. not using the web installer
// then rename this file to configuration.php e.g.
//
// UNIX -> mv configuration.php-dist configuration.php
// Windows -> rename configuration.php-dist configuration.php
//
// Now edit this file and configure the parameters for your site and
// database.
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Database configuration section
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
$mosConfig_offline = '0';
$mosConfig_host = 'localhost'; // This is normally set to localhost
$mosConfig_user = 'root'; // MySQL username
$mosConfig_password = ''; // MySQL password
$mosConfig_db = 'koreanschool'; // MySQL database name
$mosConfig_dbprefix = 'mos_'; // Do not change unless you need to!
//
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Site specific configuration
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
$mosConfig_lang = 'english'; // Site language

$mosConfig_absolute_path = 'c:\program files\easyphp1-7\www\koreanschool';
// $mosConfig_absolute_path = '/path/to/mambo/install'; // No trailing slash

$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://localhost/koreanschool';
// $mosConfig_live_site = 'http://your_mambo_site.com'; // No trailing slash

$mosConfig_sitename = 'Mambo Open Source'; // Name of Mambo site
$mosConfig_shownoauth = '1'; // Display links & categories users don't have access to
$mosConfig_emailpass = '1'; // Send new registration passwords via e-mail
$mosConfig_offline_message = 'This site is down for maintenance.<br /> Please check back again soon.';
$mosConfig_UseBanner = '1'; // Use banners 0 = No, 1 = Yes
$mosConfig_lifetime = '900'; // Session time
$mosConfig_MetaDesc = 'Mambo Open Source - the dynamic portal engine and content management system';
$mosConfig_MetaKeys = 'mambo, mambo open source, Mambo, Mambo Open Source';
$mosConfig_debug = '0';
$mosConfig_locale = 'en_GB';
$mosConfig_offset = '0'; // Local time offset
$mosConfig_hideAuthor = '0';
$mosConfig_hideCreateDate = '0';
$mosConfig_hideModifyDate = '0';
$mosConfig_hidePdf = '0';
$mosConfig_hidePrint = '0';
$mosConfig_hideEmail = '0';
$mosConfig_enable_log_items = '0';
$mosConfig_enable_log_searches = '0';
$mosConfig_sef = '0';
$mosConfig_vote = '0';
$mosConfig_gzip = '0';
$mosConfig_multipage_toc = '0';
$mosConfig_allowUserRegistration = '1';
$mosConfig_error_reporting = -1;
$mosConfig_error_message = 'This site is temporarily unavailable.<br />Please contact your System Administrator.';
$mosConfig_link_titles = '0';
setlocale (LC_TIME, $mosConfig_locale); // Country locale
?>

[terry73]

No idea what happened, I watched a DVD and came back, it's working now. Excellent, but a little disconcerting.

[Gayle]

Originally Posted by RainMan

Thnx Gayle,

Here's your code with a bit of color (just a little ). Sometimes a little color can make the difference...

Weeeeh...shiny things

[Gaoshan]

A few changes needed to be made to Rainman's version of Gayle's code to get working properly under 4.5.1. Cut and paste, save it into your root as whatever.php
Here it is:

<?php require "./configuration.php";

// Automated fault finder v1.0
// author: Gayle
// date: February 25th, 2004, 09:26 PM
// minor edit: RainMan 11-06-04
// - added some layout

// Database connectivity tests
if (!function_exists( 'mysql_connect' )) {
$mysql_support = 0;
}else{
$mysql_support = 1;
if (!(@$mysql = mysql_connect( $mosConfig_host, $mosConfig_user, $mosConfig_password ))){
$mysql_login = 0;
}else{ $mysql_login = 1;
if (!mysql_select_db($mosConfig_db, $mysql)){
$mysql_select = 0;
$mysql_select_errno = mysql_errno($mysql);
$result=mysql_query("SHOW DATABASES", $mysql);
$databases=mysql_num_rows($result);
for ($i=0;$i<$databases;$i++){
$mysql_databases[$i]=mysql_result($result,$i,0);
}
}else{
$mysql_select = 1;
}
}
}

// Absolute path
$abpath = getcwd();
if($mosConfig_absolute_path!=$abpath)
$config_abpath = 0;
else $config_abpath = 1;

// Live site
$host = $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"];
$path = pathinfo($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$path = $path["dirname"];
if(strlen($path)==1)
$path = "";
$livesite = "http://".$host.$path;
if($mosConfig_live_site!=$livesite)
$config_livesite = 0;
else $config_livesite = 1;

// Spaces in configuration.php
$configfile = implode("", file("configuration.php"));
if(strlen($configfile)!=(strrpos($configfile, ">")+1))
$config_blank = 0;
else $config_blank = 1;

// FTP client filename mangling
if(!file_exists("administrator/includes/js/ThemeOffice")){
if(!file_exists("administrator/includes/js/themeoffice")){
$ftp_mangling = 0;
}else{
// No FTP mangling, still a potential problem though
$ftp_mangling = 1;
}
}else{
$ftp_mangling = 1;
}

// Output gathered data

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Automated fault finder v1.0</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
}
h1 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-style: bold;
}

th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: bold;
}


/* PASSED */

h2 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-style: bold;
color: green;
}

/* FAILED */

h3 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-style: bold;
color: red;
}
-->
</style>

<body>
<h1>Automated fault finder v1.0</h1>
<hr />
<p>The script
MUST be in your Mambo root and you must have a configuration.php file. It's
kind of hard to diagnose problems without one.<br />
If you are having troubles with the automated installer then create your configuration.php by hand before running
the script.</p>
<p>Current faults it can diagnose are:</p>
<p>
*Incorrect live site<br />
*Incorrect absolute path<br />
*No PHP support for MySQL<br />
*Invalid MySQL username/host/password<br />
*Incorrect database name (suggests valid names)<br />
*Incorrect MySQL user privileges<br />
*Extra whitespace characters after ?&amp;gt; in configuration.php<br />
*Filenames mangled to lower case by FTP client
<br />
<br />
In all cases the script will advise you on what further action to take in an attempt to resolve the issue.</p>
<hr />
<br />

<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Test</th>
<th>Result</th>
<th>Details</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL support in PHP</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_support==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_support==0) echo "If you are on a hosted webserver then please contact your host.<br/>" ."If you are hosting yourself on Windows then I suggest trying miniserver" ."as your PHP/MySQL/Apache solution. Download from " ."<a href=\"http://miniserver.sourceforge.net\">http://miniserver.sourceforge.net</a>.</br>" ."If you are self hosting on *nix then either recompile PHP with MySQL support or check" ."your distro docs on how to add it in using the provided packages.";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL login</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_login==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_login==0) echo "Access was refused.<br/>Check your database username/password in configuration.php.<br/>" ."Check that the user exists on your MySQL database and has the correct password." ."Check that the hostname is correct and not being blocked by a firewall.";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL database selection</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_select==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($mysql_select==0){ if($mysql_select_errno==1049){ echo "The database $mosConfig_db does not exist. Current valid databases " ."are listed below</br></br>"; foreach($mysql_databases as $row){ echo "$row<br/>"; } echo "<br/>If none of these is the database you wanted and you are " ."certain the database exists then make sure you have granted the correct " ."permissions to your user.<br/>" ."If the database does not exist then you must first create it."; } if($mysql_select_errno==1044){ echo "User $mosConfig_user does not appear to have the correct permissions granted " ."on database $mosConfig_db.<br/>Grant the user the appropriate privileges."; } }?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Absolute path</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_abpath==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_abpath==0) echo "Your absolute path appears to be wrong in configuration.php. Please " ."change it to the following.<br/></br>\$mosConfig_absolute_path = '$abpath';";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Live site</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_livesite==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_livesite==0) echo "Your live site appears to be wrong in configuration.php. Please " ."change it to the following.<br/></br>\$mosConfig_live_site = '$livesite';";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Extra characters in configuration.php</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_blank==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($config_blank==0) echo "Your configuration.php seems to have characters after the final closing >.<br/>" ."This is not allowed and will cause errors with session handling. Remove everything</br> " ."after the final >.</br>" ."Do not use the cpanel text editor, it hasd a known bug that inserts blank lines at " ."the end of the file.";?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>FTP client mangled filenames</td>
<td>
<?php if($ftp_mangling==0)echo "<h3>Failed</h3>"; else echo "<h2>Passed</h2>";?>
</td>
<td>
<?php if($ftp_mangling==0) echo "Files that should be contain upper case characters appear to be all in lower case.<br/>" ."Please ensure your FTP client is not set to convert all filenames to lower case and reupload Mambo.";?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<p>made by <a href="http://forum.mamboserver.com/member.php?userid=385">Gayle</a>, February 25th, 2004, 09:26 PM</p>
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My site has been running fine for 3 years, but suddenly I can't load any modules, templates etc. getting the install error 'Installation file not found:'

I copied the site to wamp (DB and files), and everything locally works fine, so I gues something up on the server.

I ran this code and it told me that my absolute path in my configuration.php file was wrong.

It told me it should be:

$mosConfig_absolute_path = '/home/dirnamechanged/public_html';

I checked my config file and the path is the same as the code has suggested it should be, exactly the same.

I then ran this:

<?php echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; ?>

and it also told me that the path was the same as I have in my config file.

So:
Path the fault finder code suggests I change to is already in configuration.php file.

Has anyone got any ideas on where next I can look to diagnose my problem?