post installation - no GUI

[iowamf]

After the TinyPortal installed, I can't get back to a GUI.

Local host is fedora4 (practicing at home 1st).

1.) Installed smf1-1-beta3 into a "smf" directory under /var/www/html
and verified forum operation ... all OK, checked the logs, posted some examples, didn't change anything.

2.) Uploaded Tinyportal0_65b-smf11.tar.gz and it was listed as: "Tiny Portal v0.6.5 beta" in the SMF package UI

3.) llisted the ~103 files ... hit "apply mod" - all looked normal.

4.) hit "install now" and got success prompts:

   Tiny Portal v0.6.5 beta
   Checking first if settings table already exists ...
   <more>
    Atricles table was created successfully.
    ======
    The package was installed successfully (etc.)

5.) poked around the file system, can cd to smf/Packages and the file "installed.list" says TinyPortal is installed.

Now, when I go back to the original URL - it's a blank screen.

Any ideas of what to try next?

Thanks (and I know it's beta - no probs ... this is not a production server).

[bloc]

I would assume forum/Themes/default/index.template.php is not modded correctly. Try to first replace that one from the smf install files - to see if it works. if not, try Sources/Load.php too and thirdly forum/index.php. Those 3 are the files that are modified by TP.

[iowamf]

Thanks - I'm looking at those - but I think I solved it.

Here is how:

  mv index.php index.php.TP
  cp  index.php~ index.php

and I got the board (mostly) back to a stock SMF install.

Most importantly, I could login as admin and go to the Forum Error Log.

There were nine errors at the time of install and they were all file system protection issues - "Permission denied" in the "Forum Error Log".

I tried again and got it to install - with two changes to my local file system (Fedora4/RedHat knockoff).

  after re-installing SMF in a WEBROOT/smf directory I issued these two commands in WEBROOT before installing TinyPortal:

    chown -R apache.apache smf
    chmod -R 777 smf

  Now after installing TinyPortal I'm looking at a portal - cool.

I'm a newbie to SMF - but I think the package adder daemon runs as apache.apache and the TinyPortal scripts encountered some filesystem errors that were detected in the error log but not detected during the TinyPortal installation.

My first impressions are awesome ... but since it's beta I know I have to offer feedback.

The 1st feedback I can offer would be for the TinyPortal installation routines to check the SMF log before and after the "mod".  I think the TinyPortal mod got fooled into thinking it was installed because it mostly worked.

Keep up the good work - more later now that I can kick the tires - Thanks.

[bloc]

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the permission errors with package manager are something I am aware of, many have reported the same thing. Showing the error log might be an idea..but it can be filled with all kinds of errors, so I am not sure it will be beneficial...

What could be done is to check that files actually got modified or have the right permissions - in the the same file that installs database entrys(thats a separate TP file that runs by itself). But it should really be the task of package manager to report that...