I tried installing TP today. As I already managed fine on another server I thought not biggie. Well the tiny little details are what brings you down in the end they say, anyway, turned out that 2nd server seems to have a bad mysql/php combo, at least much worse then the one I succeeded with my 1st install.
OK, what did I try:
SMF 1.1.1 + TP 0.9.7.1
SMF 1.1.2 + TP 0.9.7.1 (changed the xml in the zip)
SMF installed without pain, but after uploding the TP package and installing it and saying everything went fine I get the problem that I cant visit certain key pages anymore after the upgrade like:
/index.php?topic=1.0
/index.php?action=admin
although front page works fine and some pages even inside the admin panel like:
/index.php?action=viewmembers (but clicking on the only user there does not -> blank page)
So my guess is the templates are screwed up somehow or the installation didnt succeeded so nice as printed out, my problem though: I dont see any error messages put out.
So my first question would be: any advice on how to convince the server to put out more then a blank page?
Of course if you know a shortcut to end my pain, I would take the solution as well :-)
What I could find was safe_mode turned on (the manual installation php told me that). TP installation borked till I put that off, but said it worked 100% afterwards.
Markus
edit: just tried the manual method explained here (http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=12118.0), same result.
Do you have any other mods installed? If not, and TP is the only one then you have something else going on. A manual install entails, First uploading the TP "Files Only" package, Second upload the pre-made files for SMF (altered for TP), Third running the manual_tp_install.php from your browser by accessing it like this: http://www.domain.com/forum/manual_tp_install.php.
If this doesn't get your forum working I think you have problems with SMF or your server before you have anything to do with TP.
its a fresh install. vanilla SMF does what it should. I even installed some smaller packages for testing the whole procedure, works as well.
The packaged version of TF installs correct it seems and I never got any errors, so I would assume the installation process was correct, yet I cant access certain pages after installing TP. I doubt its the installation process as well which screws up my forum, I suspect more some weird php or mysql setting i am not aware of or some other stuff around that.
I am fully aware that giving a "blank page" as error description is a hopeless case. Just a bit desperate here as it was all so easy in earlier installs.
I noticed a difference in mysql and php on my working and non working servers. could the problem lie there?
working: php 5.1.2 + mysql 5.0.22
not working: php 4.3.4 + mysql 4.0.18
which puzzles me is that some pages work, some not. the main page looks well for instance, so part of it is doing what it should while crucial pages like the admin start page is not loading.
ok, i researched a bit more. Every webpage which includes some new stuff from TP besides the front page will not show (admin page, user profile for instance).
Front page looks fine though.
* Upshrink table created
* Settings table created
* Settings table updated
o Added 74 new setting(s)
* Blocks table created.
o some sample values were added to the blocks table
* Variables table created.
o some sample values were added to the variables table
* Articles table created.
o some sample values were added to the articles table
* DL manager table created
TinyPortalÃ,´s table structure is now installed/updated.
i get after a fresh install and uploading and executing the TP package, looks fine to me.
http://www.lieblingsdoc.de/smf/index.php
if you wanna take a look. You will see the front page is loading fine but try making a new user, it already borks at the second register page or try accessing one of the posts in the forum i made before uploading the TP package.
Any help solving this puzzle realy appriciated, thanks.
edit: i just tried IE for the first time and it seems that i dont get a blank page back from the server but no page at all (IE throws the "couldnt connect to server/unable to load page" error while firefox gives out a blank page).
Download the manual install files from the download section and upload/replace them with the old ones.
The installer probably missed or skipped files during the install.
tried already on friday and tried again just now (yes, overrode all :-) ). although the manual install php say updated one tabel at a certain point the outcome is the same; no output on some pages. I can send you the admin user if you wanna have a look around.
* Upshrink table exists
* Settings table exists
o Updated version to 097
* Blocks table exists
* Variables table exists
o Changed value5 in variables table
* Articles table exists
o Updated body in articles table
* DL manager table exists
Did you upload the files from the package manually ?
And also, did you make the proper changes (manually modify the SMF files) to ?
If not, you need to eather copy and paste the code for TP into the SMF files manually (recomended if you have other mods besides TP installd) or use the premade files from the sticky post in this board.
Extract the files and upload them as they are and overwrite the old ones.
ok, it seems my mental grumpyness let me shrink my posts to much, so lets elaborate in details what i did so far one-to-one:
M0
1) created an new database
2) created a new database user with proper permission for the created db in 1) (everything with the exception of GRANT)
3) move the tarball smf v 1.1.1 to my server, untared it and chown the files to the apache user
4) installed smf over the usual webpages, created the admin user in the process
5) logged into the forum made some new boards, childboards, test posts, everything fine so far
variant A
TP part (this is where it branches of into different approaches, I think I tried them all by now)
1) installed the SMF PACKAGE of TP 0971 in the admin section
2) this gives me no errors but the problems I tried to describe in my first post; some pages dont create any output at all (admin pages, forum posts, member details)
ok, didnt work, back to square one, I removed the files from the webserver and droped the table database and started again at M0.
variant B:
1) i uploaded your (G6) manual installation zip to the webserver, unpacked it and copied them over the normal SMF files.
2) executed the manual_install_tp_0971.php
3) same result as variant A, some pages dont produce output.
Summarize:
I never modified any file by hand nor is any other package installed in SMF at any time. Basic SMF is working without a flaw (posting topics, new board, new users, everything seems to work).
After installing TP I get the shiny front portal with default settings and at a first look everything is all right. But if you try to visit the admin section or cruise down into the forum you seem to hit a brick wall.
ok, problem solved, case closed.
apperently there were some unfortunate php mem settings, which happen to let smf live while killing smf+tp.
anyway, thanks for trying to help me out!
ok now even got it a bit more detailed, maybe someone else stumbles over it and does use search :-)
- the memory_limit directive set to at least 8M.
changed that to 18M, did the trick.