On Wed, Oct 11 2017, Blair Alper wrote:
> I installed dl. When I got to creating a user, I get the message
> "cannot initialize database." I also get the same message when
> attempting to access the web interface. The database file exists and
> the permissions appear correct.
So you did initialize the DB using sqlite3 -init ... and then used
useradmin.php to create an initial user?
> /var/spool/dl
> drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Oct 10 21:06 data
> -rw-rw 1 www-data www-data 17408 Oct 11 07:09 data.sdb
Check that /var/spool/dl itself is owned by www-data.
sqlite needs to be able to create lockfiles in it.
> user and password to NULL in confwrap.php. Is there a missing step in
> the instructions about creating a database user?
The main steps are:
- create directories
- initialize the empty database (sqlite3 -init ...)
- create first user (using useradmin.php)
