Installation prob with cmps_index.php

[Raitsa]

Hey guys, this all too familiar prob with me too, and i cant seem to be able to solve it.

The installation seemed to go 100% smoothly, until i visited

http://forum.hitechplace.com/cmps_index.php

Then i got this:

Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/.fluffball/mraitio/forum.hitechplace.com/cmps_index.php on line 19

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/.fluffball/mraitio/forum.hitechplace.com/cmps_index.php
Line: 19


I´ve read the faqs & forum posts, but still no go after countless retries.
It must be the path to the forums, which in my case is a subforum to hitechplace: forum.hitechplace.com


This is how my cmps_index.php looks like now:

<?php
// ++=========================================================================++
// || vBadvanced CMPS v1.0 RC2 ||
// || © 2003-2004 vBadvanced.com & PlurPlanet, LLC - All Rights Reserved ||
// || This file may not be redistributed in whole or significant part. ||
// || http://vbadvanced.com ||
// ++ ========================================================================++

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'adv_index');
define('VBA_PORTAL', true);

// ============================================
// Enter the full path to your forum here
// Example: /home/vbadvanced/public_html/forum
// ============================================

chdir('./home/mraitio/forum.hitechplace.com');

// ============================================
// No Further Editing Necessary!
// ============================================

require_once('./global.php');

print_portal_output($home);

?>

Any ideas, please?

[Raitsa]

And some more error reporting, if its any of use to determine on whats wrong:



Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/.fluffball/mraitio/forum.hitechplace.com/cmps_index.php on line 19

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/.fluffball/mraitio/forum.hitechplace.com/includes/functions_calendar.php on line 1557

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[DarknessDivine]

I believe the path is definately wrong..you don't need the .com at the end..
see here's what mine looks like
chdir('/home/madmadd/public_html/forum')

[mholtum]

chdir(): /home/.fluffball/mraitio/forum.hitechplace/ I beilve

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[Raitsa]

I believe the path is definately wrong..you don't need the .com at the end..

Hmm, notice that my forum is on a subforum to hitechplace:

forum.hitechplace.com

so the .com has to be there?

[Raitsa]

chdir(): /home/.fluffball/mraitio/forum.hitechplace/ I beilve

Thanks mholtum, but any of the following:

/home/.fluffball/mraitio/forum.hitechplace/
/home/.fluffball/mraitio/forum.hitechplace
/home/mraitio/forum.hitechplace/
/home/mraitio/forum.hitechplace

dont seem to make any difference. :(

[Raitsa]

By the way, _SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]
gives me this:

/home/mraitio/forum.hitechplace.com/info.php

[mholtum]

somewhere here there is a php file that after loaded and navigated to will give the the exact path.. Someone help me out here. info.php I believe?

[DarknessDivine]

Yeah mholtum inof.php is correct..But I think he's done that if he already has SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"] ..

:confused:
I'm trying here :o

[mholtum]

Yeah mholtum inof.php is correctSERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"] ..
My bad, i thought it was info.php :D

[Raitsa]

Yes, thanks guys for the poiinters, but all these hints have been done, any ideas on what i should try next?

[Raitsa]

Now, that my cmps_index.php is set like this:

<?php
// ++=========================================================================++
// || vBadvanced CMPS v1.0 RC2 ||
// || © 2003-2004 vBadvanced.com & PlurPlanet, LLC - All Rights Reserved ||
// || This file may not be redistributed in whole or significant part. ||
// || http://vbadvanced.com ||
// ++ ========================================================================++

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'adv_index');
define('VBA_PORTAL', true);

// ============================================
// Enter the full path to your forum here
// Example: /home/vbadvanced/public_html/forum
// ============================================

chdir('/home/mraitio/forum.hitechplace.com');


// ============================================
// No Further Editing Necessary!
// ============================================

require_once('./global.php');

print_portal_output($home);

?>


i get only this:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/.fluffball/mraitio/forum.hitechplace.com/includes/functions_calendar.php on line 1557

But changes have been made as they should in functions_calendar.php

I am lost on how to proceed.

[Raitsa]

I keep bugging you guys:
the readme file says:

In your cmps_index.php file:

Now open your cmps_index.php file in this folder and find:
chdir('./forum');

Replace this with the full path to your forum on your server.
Not sure what this means?

Note: If you are installing this script in the same directory as your forums then you may simply comment out this line.

So i should leave cmps_index.php as it was originally?
BTW, i am not using the calendar at all on my forums, does it matter?

Cos now it seems calendar could be the one thats causing these probs?

I put the calendar on and lost my forums: i got the same error message then, that scared the hell out of me, but luckily, when i put the calendar off from the settings, the forum was ok again.

[Raitsa]

Still more notes:

the calendar, that is included in the VB3.01, does not work from my forum either, when i click the link http://forum.hitechplace.com/calendar.php? all i get is this error msg:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/.fluffball/mraitio/forum.hitechplace.com/includes/functions_calendar.php on line 1557

The cmps_index.php & my VB3.01 forum index.php are located in the same folder.

[attroll]

So I am confused. Is this in the same directory as your forums?

[Raitsa]

Yes.

[attroll]

Yes.

I started to do this to a new site I was creating on my existing site because I am running two forums on my site. So I realized I was going to have these problems. So I moved the second forum into a directory that looks like this:

/home/mysite/public_html/geomaine/forum/ect..

I put the cmps_index.php into the /home/mysite/public_html/geomaine directory and put all my forums in a forum directory under that.

Sorry I could not help. I don't know why you want to have it in the same directory as your forums. That would only seems like it would casuse problems later.

[Raitsa]

Now that they are on the same folder (i did not see any info on not to install vBadvanced CMPS like i did), cant the cmps_index.php be named something else like portalindex.php after it hopefully working as it should?

I am uncertain, if both these files can be on the same folder or not?

Are my problems related to my forum´s index.php & cmps_index.php being in the same folder?

[attroll]

Well the reason I did it like I did was because when someone types in your sites doamin name for example www.mysite.com. When it goes to that loaction it automatically looks for a file named index.php and executes it. It will not do this if the file is named cmps_index.php. So what I did was rename it to index.php. But you can not do that if you have it in the same directory as your forums because the forums already has a filed called index.php. so when someone types www.mysite.com then it will execute the forums.

I hope this made some sense. I am off to bed now. Wish I could help you some more. But I don't know anything about having them in the same directory. You will have to wait and maybe Brian will let you know how to get this working.

[Raitsa]

Hi guys.

Happy to report that my probs are now over:

post by Brian:
"The problem was caused because you modified your functions_calendar.php file incorrectly. I've fixed the problem for you and it seem to be working fine now. :) "

Nevertheless, you should see my wide smile now, huge thanks to Brian and thanks for everyone else who helped me out :D