Fatal Error on Install

[davidWalker]

Hi all,

Just trying to get the Harvester installed, and ran into this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getVersionString() on a non-object in F:\htdocs\harvester\lib\pkp\classes\template\PKPTemplateManager.inc.php on line 139

This same problem was reported by 'Arf' for OJS:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5096

But his solution (upgrading to the latest version of OJS) won't help me, since I've got the latest Harvester download.

My specs:

Windows 2003
Apache 2.2.13
MySQL 5.0.41
PHP 5.2.10

The steps I did:

Downloaded and unzipped OAI Harvester 2.3.0 (.tar.gz).

Uploaded to server.

Renamed the directory ‘harvester’.

Went to web install.

It says that ‘cache/t_cache’ and ‘cache/_db’ are not writeable, which is true. But, more importantly, they don’t exist. So created those manually. Refresh web install page, all is good.

Kept locale and security settings as-is.

Filled in the admin user info.

Filled in password for db user.

Hit ‘manual install’.

Copied the SQL text to a file. Note: It would be useful if the SQL had a ‘USE harvester2;’ statement after it creates the schema.

Run the SQL, all goes well.

Go back to the “login” link from the web install.

Get the error “DB Error: Access denied for user 'harvester2'@'localhost' (using password: YES)”. Makes sense, I didn’t grant privileges for this user. But what to grant?

Run: “GRANT SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE ON harvester2.* TO 'harvester2'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'not-what-I-actually-typed';”

Go back to the “login” link from the web install.

Get this error: “Fatal error: Call to a member function getVersionString() on a non-object in F:\htdocs\harvester\lib\pkp\classes\template\PKPTemplateManager.inc.php on line 139”

Any help appreciated. Thanks!

[asmecher]

Hi davidWalker,

Are there entries in the "site" and "versions" tables?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[davidWalker]

Hi Alec,

There are now. I started the web install over again, and put in my MySQL root user. That got me through the install process.

For obvious reasons, I'd prefer to user a different db user. But can't figure out what permissions that user will need. I'm looking through the code now, but any short-cuts would be appreciated.

[davidWalker]

I guess I needed to grant 'CREATE' privileges as well. That may have even been in the instruction.

[asmecher]

Hi davidWalker,

I tend to do a GRANT ALL on the database in question, i.e.:

Code: Select all

CREATE DATABASE myDatabase DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8;
GRANT ALL ON myDatabase.* TO myUser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'myPassword';

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team