Unable to create/write to http://www.mysite.com/photopost/data!

[photopostuser123]

Hello,

I'm tring to install PhotoPost and I always get this error message after the "Step 4: Configuring PhotoPost":

We're sorry, but we encountered an error during the installation process...

Unable to create/write to http://www.mysite.com/photopost/data! Check your data directory permissions before continuing.

When you have fixed your permissions Refresh this page to try again.

If you have corrected the error, you may hit GO BACK and try again.


I have Apache, PHP 4.3.11 and MySQL 4.0.27.

I have Linux on a shared server.

I need to integrate it with vBulletin 3.5.3


The info that I entered at Step 4 is the following:

Your Forum Integration: VB3

Url to Forum directory: http://www.mysite.com/forums/

Forums database table prefix: left it blank

Forum Cookie Prefix: left it blank

URL to PhotoPost main script directory: http://www.mysite.com/photopost/

Also, I chmod'ed all the Data dir and sub cats to 777.

Any idea what is wrong?

Thank you

[Chuck S]

It looks to me like you have specified in the config the server path to Photopost as a url and not server path. In the config file make sure $PP_PATH is server path not url to photopost

[photopostuser123]

Hi Chuck,

I have changed it to:

Path to PhotoPost Installation : /photopost

instead of ...//www.mysite.com/photopost

in step 1, and it's not working. I'm I writing it correctly?

Thanks

[Sybaris]

no you need to see what the server path is, something like home/kjlkjdfsjs/public_html/photopost

imagine its on your home machine and it would be similar to c:/programme_files/photopost thats a server path..

[Chuck S]

Yes server path is like /var/www/html/photopost

[photopostuser123]

Hello Chuck and Sybaris,

It worked! Installation completed!

Thank you very much!

One more thing: How do I change the look of it, it's all black and white?

How can I make it to have the look of my forum: stylesheet, header, footer?

In Forum Settings:

Use Integrated forum stylesheets? Yes

But nothing happened.

In vB3 INTEGRATION
Do you want to enable the vB3 Integration which uses your vB3 headers, footers and styles? Off (I tried to put it On, but I get an error message)


Thank you

[Chuck S]

Do you have a valid url for us to see

[photopostuser123]

Hello Chuck,

here is a picture attached of what I'm getting.

Thx


UPDATE: Got it!
I added my forum css info in the default.css in the "Stylesheet" Folder!

Now, I just want to add the Header & Footer of my VBulletin Board. I've look in this forum, and the threads are talking about is with non vb. What are the procedures, taking into consideration that in
VB3 INTEGRATION
Do you want to enable the vB3 Integration which uses your vB3 headers, footers and styles? Off (I tried to put it On, but I get an error message)

Thx again,

[Chuck S]

You need to enable the vb3 integration. If you get an error you would need to post that here but more than likely it is because you do not have the correct path to your forum in the path settings above in edit integration.

[photopostuser123]

Hello Chuck, it worked so that it now shows! But the links are not working properly (links in the nav bar and my logo at the top).

It now redirect to
http://forum.mysite.com/index.php
http://forum.mysite.com/usercp.php
http://forum.mysite.com/faq.php
...

instead of

http://www.mysite.com/forums/index.php
http://www.mysite.com/forums/usercp.php
http://www.mysite.com/forums/faq.php
...

Also, the Quick Style Chooser in my footer on the left is not working (it shows but does not work).

Also, when I log on into as a user in the forum, when I click the link to reach my PhotoPost gallery, it doesn't recognize me as a user, it continue the session as the admin (my previous login). Is that a cookie issue?

Here are my input in CONFIG-INT.PHP Integration Variables:

/home/content/i/b/e/ibeabcd/html/forums

/home/content/i/b/e/ibeabcd/html/photopost

vB3 INTEGRATION: on, on, on


Thank you for your help, it's trully appreciated

[Chuck S]

Your style thing I would think is a result of a relative path to that file in your footer for that style

As far as your forum url in admin => Forum settings set the forum url as it should be.

[photopostuser123]

Hi Chuck,

was not able to make it work that way. What I did is I added Http://www.mysite.com/forums in front of every link that are in the Nav template of my Vboard so that the links could work when I'm in PhotoPost. It's not the best way to do it, but it's working! (except for the pop up menu of Search and Quicklink, I'll try to figure it out later.)

Thank you again.

[Chuck S]

You must have your bburl value in your vbulletin stored as forums.mysite.com so change it to the other url in your vbulletin options

[photopostuser123]

I did the change, and now it's working! Thanks a lot!

[Chuck S]

No problem