I am not trained or particularly experienced with coding, PHP, HTML, and the likes but I have tried to follow the setup and install instructions very carefully, and my hosting site appears to meet the specs. Alas, at the moment I am failing at the install.php step, as outlined below.
I am working with vB 5.4.5.
My site runs:
I've been using a simple text-editor (Notepad++) for most of my PHP file work ... although a few I did in Dreamweaver also. I used WinSCP for FTPing the installation bundle to the website although, again, I also did a few subsequent changes using Dreamweaver for the FTP.
My install effort to-date has been basically as follows:
Where to now? Is there some obvious error I can search out and correct? Should I start afresh? Is it a potential problem that my install.php file is located in a different place to that specified in the setup manual and documents?
I am working with vB 5.4.5.
My site runs:
PHP 5.6.38;
MySQL 5.7.24; &
I don't know how to check for the mod_rewrite and cURL status mentioned in the system requirements pages.
I've been using a simple text-editor (Notepad++) for most of my PHP file work ... although a few I did in Dreamweaver also. I used WinSCP for FTPing the installation bundle to the website although, again, I also did a few subsequent changes using Dreamweaver for the FTP.
My install effort to-date has been basically as follows:
Download the bundle from the vBulletin website;
Decompress the bundle and copy the upload folder over to my local-drive public_html directory and rename it "forum";
Setup a MySQL database;
Inserted the database details into the upload/core/includes/config.php file
I edited:
Decompress the bundle and copy the upload folder over to my local-drive public_html directory and rename it "forum";
Setup a MySQL database;
Inserted the database details into the upload/core/includes/config.php file
I edited:
dbtype to mysqli - it was built with MariaDB;
dbname to userprefix_vBulletin - the name of the database I had built;
tableprefix to 'vb_';
technicalemail to [email protected];
username to userprefix_DatabaseAdmin - the login master username for the database;
password to PasswordForThatUsername;
modcpdir to 'mod_cp';
and left everything else untouched.
dbname to userprefix_vBulletin - the name of the database I had built;
tableprefix to 'vb_';
technicalemail to [email protected];
username to userprefix_DatabaseAdmin - the login master username for the database;
password to PasswordForThatUsername;
modcpdir to 'mod_cp';
and left everything else untouched.
Renamed htaccess.txt file to .htaccess;
Renamed the /-directory file from config.php.bkp to config.php;
FTPd the entire 'forum' (renamed upload directory) directory into the html_public directory on the web-server;
Tried http://www.my-domain_name.org/forum/install/install.php via a browser, and got some error messages;
Searched and found install.php at ~/forum/core/install/install.php, one level deeper than explained in the unstallation guide.
Used my browser to access the install.php file. The browser returned the following response
Renamed the /-directory file from config.php.bkp to config.php;
FTPd the entire 'forum' (renamed upload directory) directory into the html_public directory on the web-server;
Tried http://www.my-domain_name.org/forum/install/install.php via a browser, and got some error messages;
Searched and found install.php at ~/forum/core/install/install.php, one level deeper than explained in the unstallation guide.
Used my browser to access the install.php file. The browser returned the following response
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator at [email protected] to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator at [email protected] to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I set config.php to debug positive and loaded the site in Chrome with developer tools active. I'm not sure of what I am looking at but the only entry with a error code reads as follows:
Request URL: http://www.website-name.org/forum/co...ll/install.php
Request Method: GET
Status Code: 500 Internal Server Error
Remote Address: 139.99.189.115:80
Referrer Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
Request Method: GET
Status Code: 500 Internal Server Error
Remote Address: 139.99.189.115:80
Referrer Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
Where to now? Is there some obvious error I can search out and correct? Should I start afresh? Is it a potential problem that my install.php file is located in a different place to that specified in the setup manual and documents?
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