The files don't have to exist - they will be created if the server has write permissions on the parent directory.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:16 PM, dh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
