Running Win2k, IIS with PHP 4.3.2 and MySql 3.2.3 Get to step 3 where it goes to create the entries in the db and process all the info that I entered. After clicking NEXT I get nothing but the following in my address bar. ?step=5 I have tried just about everything, but no luck... The documentation is SERVERLY lacking on entering this information. In fact all it states is the following: "Follow the steps of web-based setup screen." Also in Chapter #3 under step #3 it says: "Create two empty files in the scripit directory and make them also writeable: config.inc.php" But if this files exists the web based setup does this . So I tried alternate procedure (a.k.a manual installation)... It states to copy "config_plugins-dist.inc.php to config_plugins.inc.php" Of course this file does not exist at all inside the zip file.... After wasting 2 hrs attempting to install this "simple" script, I have given up... and am very :angry:
Did you order PRO version? If so, there is no config_plugins.inc.php in PRO version. Could you contact me at support@cgi-central.net with your host ftp-info. I will check it.
I have contacted Alex and am waiting on another response, but I wanted to post some other info here. I tried the free version and noticed the following vs the pro version: Setup.php Step #1 Basic config information I had the following additional prompts vs the "pro" version. Encrypt Admin Password? Send Signup Mail? Substitute member password in urls? Template Cache Level? Setup.php Step #2 Database Info same both versions Setup.php Step #3 Payment Options Did not receive this screen on the pro version, after clicking NEXT on step #2 all I got was my website URL like the following: http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?step=5 After clicking NEXT in step #3 on the "free" version I get the same URL as the pro version: http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?step=5 Any ideas???? Thanks
The program seems to be great and for free...ya can't beat it. Yer right about the documentation though...Someone who speaks English as a first language should rewrite it. They did a pretty good job, but it's a little hard to follow at times.
I got the Pro... Alex sent me an email about the ioncube installation. I have a test server I was setting this up on and it was not exactly the same php version as what my real server is. So I happened to have an extra IPB installation on the "real server" to test with. When I went to download the ioncube loader program, I noticed that my php version on the production box was different than my test box. So I downloaded a different ioncube version, instaled it and ran through the installation. I still got the weird issues like ?step=5, but there was a difference this time... When I went to the admin page it work without giving me all kinda of session errors. My impression is that either the php version or the ioncube version for that php version has an issue. I am building another test box to duplicate the production enviroment, and will be testing the installation again. But I'm ALOT better off than what I was a couple of days ago... Thanks for the assistence Alex. But what I don't understand is why I get the ?step=5 issue with pro in once place, but a different place in the free version. Assuming that the installation is complete at that point, there should be a redirection to the admin.php page instead. Because the same thing happens in the free version, but not until a later step... And at that time the installation seems complete as well. I still need to snoop around the admin interface to make sure that everything is working, but I want to build a new test box before flipping switches. Don't like playing on my production box. Cheers
I installed this on my production box, because I could not seem to figure out why I was getting misc errors on my test enviroment. Before doing this I tested it on an additional invision forum DB I had on the production box. On the test forum it worked decent, but still had the ?step=5 issue after clicking the next to execute the DB settings. So I installed it on my production enviroment DB... After installing I tried to go into the admin pages and finish setting things up. I attempted to login and got a "Error 405 Resource Not Allowed". I have seen this in the past playing around trying to install the product, but other times it worked just fine. So I went back to my "test site" and went to the admin login page... Well it worked. So I went back to the "production site" and type in the same address, and it worked!?! I thought wait a minute, I just got a 405 resource not allowed error, wtf? Then I looked closely at the URL string and found this: The 405 Resource Error only appeared if I used the address http://www.mysite.com/amember/admin After attempting to login the error would display... But if you use http://www.mysite.com/amember/admin/index.php everything works fine... Go figure... So off I go attempting to configure the software, I have learned something and wanted to share it: 1. If you are using a BB snap-in like Invision you have to put those directories and files under the -plugins-protect- directory. Once there the admin interface will show invision as an option under the plugin section. 2. Stormpay does not seem to be an option for payment. I thought this was developed some time ago? 3. I selected SMTP for email process to use, but when I attempt to sign-up a user, I get these errors: Warning: "sendmail_from" NOT set in php.ini in C: directoryA amember common.inc.php on line 339 Warning: "sendmail_from" NOT set in php.ini in C: directoryA amember common.inc.php on line 339 Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at C: directoryA amember common.inc.php:339) in C: directoryA amember plugins paymentfreefree.inc.php on line 39 I set the email as SMTP not "default", I assumed that default meant SendMail. Also I thought with the invision plugin that the user tables for invision would be updated to create a user using the sign-up process of amember. Maybe these errors kept this from occuring, but they were not in the ib_members table. Yet they existed in the amember table somewhere, because I could login to amember with the test account, but not invision. Note to board admin Why are the slashes not being posted? Example c:testtest1test2 = garbage
Look like I found the email issue... I did some research on the board looking for "sendmail" and found an old issue in the archive that looked somewhat similiar. That archived issue was that it would not send an email out... it was not the error I had, but it did involve the email component function. It pointed to a php article that talked about the php.ini file that dealt with smtp / sendmail options. Well I run IPB and am having no issues with email from the board, but I decieded to give it a shot and setup in the php.ini the smtp host, and sendmail address. Afterwards I went to the admin console and turned the email functions back on again via SMTP. Next to the signup page to register another user, and did not get the errors!! Yeah, one more issue fixed... But I did get a page not found after submitting the info for the user, but I did not get the sendmail errors... So I checked my smtp logs and saw the email goto the test hotmail account and my admin email account. Sweet! But of course I still got the "page not found" error, but at least the sendmail error is gone now. The battle continues...
Here was the URL that was not found: www.yoursite.com/plugins/payment/free/thanks.php?payment_id=6&vcode=edef7673db927b9b5d1a5244d7fcb0fd My aMember was installed under the amember directory, so there should be a amember before the plugins directory. BINGO! Found the issue... Under the admin console, config section I had the Root URL and Secure URL incorrect. I forgot to put the / amember after the site address. Stupid me.... The user register screen does not give any errors anymore. B)
Found something else I screwed up on... Since I have IPB plugin it did not seem to create the user account on signup. I checked the Invision section in admin console -- config and it looked correct, but it was not working. Well I had only put in ib_ for the value of the table field, but the program brought up the groups like it was talking to the DB correctly. I changed it to databasename.ibf_ (which is the correct string) and everything is working correctly now!!!! I'm having a good day working through my screwup's :lol: But I think maybe I noticed a bug, maybe... When a user signs up via amember, the user account is created (I think) in the Invision member table. But if you delete the user out of amember the user still exists in the Invision member table. Is this correct? I don't see any security risk here, because the user on my board was set to "Vaildating" so they could not read anything. I guess worse case scenario is if you deleted them in amember by accident you could just re-create them. But if the user was automatically deleted from Invision it is alot harder to "fix" that, because if you create another user, they get a new user # on the BB and none of the posts are associated with that user anymore. Loving this program more and more... Nice job Alex! :wub:
Thank you! It is not good idea to delete records from third-party applications, like boards. For example, if I delete user records from board, who will own these messages? It may broke your board.
What happens in IPB is the user # is the unique key everything is driven by. So if the user gets deleted the posts by that user are then as posted by "User X Unregisted". So if the user pays again you have to go into the DB and set all those posts to the new user #. I have done this and it is a pain... Thanks again for not deleting them... For us dummy admins whom may delete someone within amember by accident. B)