Hello guys, I have written a small installation guide for habari with mysql today (in German on my own habari blog :-).
To do this I had to create a new mysql database and of course a new habari test installation. I used the habari_head (about 3 days old). When I launched the habari installer it first told me that it didn't have the rights to edit my ".htaccess" file. So I thought I might just add these rights via my ftp client, then i saw that habari didn't even have an empty .htaccess file in its package. The same with the config.php file which is necessary later in the installation process. The problem here was that after I entered all data (name, servername, password, blog-name and so on) habari showed me this error that it couldn't write to config.php - because there was no config.php. I had to create an empty config.php file, load it up to my ftp server, give it the rights and then re-enter all the data. So I thought maybe other (new) users would maybe have the same problems as they don't know that these files must exist. My question: why don't we bundle these two empty files in the habari package so the user uploads them automatically with all the other files? Maybe we could even tell the user before the installation that these files need to exist with proper write priviliges. I wrote this whole stuff so that maybe the installation process gets a bit smoother. The rest of it works really like a charm now (especially since the installer credential check has been rewritten). Hope you don't mind me asking these questions. Thanks again for a great product, dh Btw.: Creating a .htaccess file in windows is really difficult for normal users because they have to do this via the command shell. Windows itself can't create such a file (a shame by the way). Btw. 2: Why does habari need 777 instead of 755? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
