PP5, New Installation, No Integration, Problems at Step
 

Hi,

I am new to Photopost and all the backened stuff (MySQL, PHP, etc.). I am running PP5 on a Win2003 box with IIS and PHP 4.3.10 and MySQL 4.1. I have correctly setup my photopost database in MySQL and have created an account with full permissions to the database. I have given all of the photopost directory files and folders read & execute, read, and write permissions. I have mananged to get through all 4 of the first steps. After I enter enter the admin account details and click next for the final setup, I get a bunch of fopen errors:

Warning: fopen(c:\inetpub\wwwroot/data/thumbs/index.htm): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line <b>965<br />

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line 966

Warning: fopen(c:\inetpub\wwwroot/data/medium/index.htm): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line 971

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line 972

Warning: fopen(c:\inetpub\wwwroot/data/mini/index.htm): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line 977

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line 978

Warning: fopen(c:\inetpub\wwwroot/data/500/thumbs/index.htm): failed to open stream: Permission denied in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line 965

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line 966

Warning: fopen(c:\inetpub\wwwroot/data/500/medium/index.htm): failed to open stream: Permission denied in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line 971

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line 972

Warning: fopen(c:\inetpub\wwwroot/data/500/mini/index.htm): failed to open stream: Permission denied in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line 977

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\install.php on line 978

etc. It goes on for a bit going through data directories 1 + 2 as well. At the bottom it says installation finished and lets me go to the admin page, but I think something is messed up and not working as once I try to login with my created admin account from the main page, it says my account doesn't exist and asks me to register. I obviously has my old account as if I try to register with that username, it says it already exists.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much!

opps, forgot to mention that I think it could be a directory issue, as the errors seem to have the incorrect backslashes, but my install directory is c:\inetpub\wwwroot because it is windows but the install.php wants to use forward slashes. I have tried changing the install directory to c:/inetpup/wwwroot but that doesn't seem to work either...

The uploads and data directories need to be set to linux 777 or in a windows world this would be

EVERYONE,IWAM,IUSER have READ WRITE AND EXECUTE TO THOSE DIRECTORIES

Thanks Omegatron, I know you have said numerous times in teh forums to check the permissions and I had like a dozen time so I apologize...stupid windows, I had done them all but for some reason data and uploads didn't get the correct permissions... okay, so next issue is once I click to the admin-main.php page, I get these errors:

Warning: opendir(c:inetpubwwwroot/data): failed to open dir: Invalid argument in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\adm-main.php on line 19

Warning: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\adm-main.php on line 21

Warning: closedir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\adm-main.php on line 29

now it looks to me like the $dir variable in admin-main is having issues since it is throwing opendir errors. any thoughts? I assume it should be c:\inetpub\wwwroot but it hasn't put in that backslash but I don't know how I should fix that.

Finally, as I mentioned previously, once I exit the admin screen and try to login from the front page, it says:

Invalid login. Please check your username and password, or register.

I have checked the MySQL database and the admin user is listed there under usergroups with a groupid of 5. My admin user is listed under the users with a groupid of 5, so I assume I should have full admin access and be able to login, but I can't.

Thanks omegatron, I appreciate it greatly!

nevermind on the $dir problem, it was in the settings, fixed that, so now only the login issue... :-) Thanks!

Depending on your integration I would check cookie values

If you let me know what forum your integrating with I can post the norms

I have no integration, I am using just PP5 for everything. I correctly entered (and double-checked) the same database information for the PP database and the User database and the same login infomation. I have tried clearing my cookies from the login problems screen on three different computers. I have searched the forums here, but everyone seems to be using vb3 or some other forum with integration, while I am just using PP5. Thx!

Do you have the ability to use phpmyadmin to view the database?

yep, its my machine, so sure, I am having difficulties getting it to connect to the database... are you looking for a GUI MySQL program? Because I have Aqua Data Studio installed to browse the db and tables...

nice, I am into phpmyadmin, had to set old password garbage for the root account, I had already done it for my photopost MySQL user...

so, yes, I have phpmyadmin, just let me know what I should be doing or checking...

Check and see what the password field says for your password in the users table. I was just curious what was in that field

You can from the login screen of your photopost install reset your password.

Under the password column for my admin user in the user table is my plain text password which I put during the PP5 installation in step 4.

Is that okay? Should it be encrypted?

Exactly it should be encrypted. Renew the password as I staged by hitting the forgot password link on your installs login page

okay, I changed my password on the forgot password portion of the first page of the install.php. It let me change it and dropped me back into the admin-main.php. I then logged out, tried to login and had the same problem. I then checked the user table and my password is still plain text.

Is there something else I should try?

okay, so what I have learned in the past 24 hours, is that when I change the password through the install.php it drops me back into admin-main but does no encode the password. However, once in admin-main, if I edit users, and reset my password, then it is encoded and emailed to me (needed to configure my php.ini send_mail). And then I can login with full permissions as I should. So I guess for now everything is working but I don't understand why the install.php can't encode the password you give it. Oh well, at least it is working now... Thanks for all of your help