Installation problem

[hive]

Hey all;

I was able to get the software up and running no problem with my ISP about 2-3 weeks ago. Since then the server they had me on started acting up something fierce and I lost the install. Today I've tried to reinstall it, and I've encountered the following error:

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Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in /home/nealthom/public_html/avenuejournal/classes/core/Registry.inc.php on line 38

Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in /home/nealthom/public_html/avenuejournal/classes/core/Registry.inc.php on line 38

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/nealthom/public_html/avenuejournal/classes/core/Registry.inc.php:38) in /home/nealthom/public_html/avenuejournal/classes/core/Request.inc.php on line 33

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According to my CPANEL the PHP Version is 4.4.1.

Has anyone encountered this before? A cursory search on the error message brought up a PHP bug for 4.4.0.

Any ideas?

Neal

[asmecher]

Hi Neal,

Are you running the most recent release of OJS (currently 2.1.0-1)?

If so, check your phpinfo output and see if you're running Zend Optimizer. There's a version of Zend Optimizer that some ISPs run that is buggy. See http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?t=704 for more information.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[hive]

Thanks for this, they updated zend optimizer and all is well.

[tmreyno]

Hello,

I have been trying to install v2.1 and having a very difficult time. the errors I am recieving prevent the installation to continue. I changed the directory location for security purposes. This is a standard install to be used to upgrade and migrate a journal on v1.9.

Please help explain what these errors are and possible fixes. I get 53 tables in the database but not sure if this is a sucessful installation since it returns to the install page with errors every time and never completes install.

This error message is above the install input information.

Errors occurred during installation:

* A database error has occurred: Error parsing the database installation file .

and above the top header these lines error occurs

syntax error
Notice: Undefined variable: fileName in
/directory/location/for/ojs/v.2.1/classes/install/Installer.inc.php on line 388

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /directory/location/for/ojs/v.2.1/classes/xml/XMLParser.inc.php:68 ) in /directory/location/for/ojs/v.2.1/classes/template/TemplateManager.inc.php on line 179

My server setting are:
OS: Linux w
ServerAPI: Apache
PHP: 4.3.11
Zend Engine 1.3.0
Zend Optimizer: 2.5.7
MySQL: 4.0.26-standard-log
Caching: Enabled
GZIP: Enabled

This is a shared server so root access is not possible.

Thanks,

Terry

[asmecher]

Hi Terry,

If you look at dbscripts/xml/install.xml, you'll see a series of instructions that the OJS installer follows to complete the system installation. The error message you're receiving indicates that one of the files referred to in a <data ...> node couldn't be installed.

The XML data that needs to be installed is in the following files:

• dbscripts/xml/data/email_templates.xml
• dbscripts/xml/data/locale/{$installedLocale}/email_templates_data.xml
• dbscripts/xml/data/currencies.xml

Check to make sure that these files exist and can be read by the web server. (The {$installedLocale} token is replaced by the name of the actual installed locale, e.g. en_US.)

If you're still having trouble, try inserting a few debug statements in classes/install/Installer.inc.php near line 384 to determine what is happening.

The error message you quoted only affects the error message; it'll be corrected in the next release, but it doesn't explain the problem you're encountering.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[tmreyno]

Hi Alec,

Sorry for the long time to respond but I think I have a solution that appears to have worked. As you stated I checked the xml files and they are correct in placement and readable. So, I stuck the old print debug code line into the classes/install/Installer.inc.php and it indicated that the install was okay. However I was receiving weird errors in red on top of the install form all with database access problems.

I never mentioned this but my SQL server is on a separate server and IP and erroneous errors such as these occured.

error: database not responding or cannot be found,

error: database not accessible at 'username@% ' 'database' 'password=yes'

and so on..... These errors did not make any sense and your code is fine.

So I tried a series of 1.x installs and they worked fine. Next I started a series of 2.x installs and every time an error of some sort with the database or script errors.


I pondered this last night and decided to run a clock on execution times and found what I think the problems may have been. As I stated this is a shared server running apache and php. the PHP install has a low script execution time that have been set with some default execution timeouts that prevented the ojs scripts from fully executing.

I create a .htaccess file on this site with the following php rewrite codes to allow large access file and execution times:

php_value max_execution_time 1200
php_value memory_limit 200M
php_value post_max_size 20M
php_value upload_max_filesize 20M

Viola, this has appeared to resolved this auto installation problem of the scripts not fully executing. This .htaccess file is the only thing I changed and appears to have resolved this issue.

Terry

[asmecher]

Hi Terry,

Glad to hear it; thanks for posting a resolution.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[renate]

Good day,
I upgraded my OJS installation from version 2.0 to versio 2.1 with patch file just now. No problems were reported.
I changed the permissions as indicated, but now we can't login anymore - see the error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getlocalefilename() in /var/www/html/ndj/classes/i18n/Locale.inc.php on line 49

What can I do get it up again asap.
Thanks for the help.
Regards
Renate

[asmecher]

See http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?t=984 for a response to this posting.