Installing OJS under IIS6

[AndyP]

In the installation readme file it states:

'Install OJS so that the files directory is NOT a subdirectory of the OJS installation and cannot be accessed directly via the web server.'

then the first process of installation is to

'extract the OJS archive to the desired location in your web documents directory'

I know I'm probably being stupid but these seem to contradict each other.

Could somebody clarify for me.

Thanks

Andy

[asmecher]

Hi AndyP,

OJS itself needs to be somewhere the web server can host, but the directory OJS stores its files in -- e.g. submission documents, etc -- shouldn't be accessible except indirectly via OJS's PHP scripts. The files directory is configured in config.inc.php.

If your webroot is in /var/www, for example, you can extract OJS into /var/www/ojs, but your files directory should *not* be a subdirectory of /var/www or else remote users will simply be able to point their browsers into that directory and download potentially private information directly. (Alternately, you can use htaccess limits to prevent users from browsing your files path if it is a subdirectory of /var/www.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[AndyP]

Hi Alec

OK, thanks for that, I was misreading it - i'd already put the 'files' directory somewhere else.

I've got some harder questions though

when visiting my site via http://www.domainname.com/index.php I get the message "www.domainname.com\ could not be found"

note the \ instead of /

when i use the url http://[default web site ip address]/domaindirectory/index.php it takes me to the set-up.

any clues?

[asmecher]

Hello AndyP,

Are you using the most recent release of OJS (currently 2.1.0-1)? There's a fix in place that should've corrected this issue.

At any rate, try configuring OJS with the base_path[your_journal_path_here] and base_path[index] directives; this should circumvent the issue.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[AndyP]

The problem seemed to be related to using Firefox as everything worked fine in Internet Explorer.

It appears to have set up the databases correctly in MySQL.

I am now using Internet Explorer to avoid any other problems.

However when I try to login it either takes me to :

http://www.equinoxjournals.com//index.p ... dex%2Fuser

and does not log me in or it takes me to:

http://www.equinoxjournals.com//index.p ... gin/signIn

with the message 'The page cannot be displayed'

I have flicked between session_check_ip as on or off, with little success (we have a fixed IP so this shouldn't be a problem).

The current security config is:

force_ssl = Off
force_login_ssl = Off
session_check_ip = Off

Our server does not support HTTPS

The password checking seems to work OK. When I use an incorrect username or password the site performs correctly and says "Invalid username or password. Please try again"

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Andy

[asmecher]

Hi Andy,

The following should fix both your problems in Firefox and your login issue.

Edit classes/core/Request.inc.php, and find the getBasePath function (approx. line 89). Find the following line:

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if ($basePath == '/') {

and change it to

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if ($basePath == '/' || $basePath == '\\') {

This is caused by inconsistencies in PHP's dirname() implementation -- on Windows boxes, it'll sometimes return a backslash.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[BrianG]

I just wanted to point out that this change is not in OJS version 2.1. You may also want to consider posting this in the FAQ. This turned out to be the fix for me to get rid of the double-slash in the URL and the login-loop problems.

Windows 2000 Server
Apache 2.0.58
PHP 4.4.2
MySQL 5.0.22
OJS 2.1

[asmecher]

Hi all,

This fix will be released with OJS 2.1.1, which is due out shortly.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team