[closed] Installation won't start > white screen

[brutusmaximus]

Hello CMSMS Heroes!

I'm excited to try the Beta version of CMSMS 2.0.

Unfortunately the installation welcome screen isn't showed and gives a white screen.

This is described in the README-PHAR.txt:

You should now be presented with a welcome screen. If, instead, you see a white screen it probably means that your
server is running old, or incompatible software and that you may be forced to use the traditional installer.

So I'd checked the requirements with phpinfo();

1. Required > Present
2. PHP 5.4.11 > 5.4.27
3. PHAR > enabled
4. json > enabled 1.2.1
5. tokenizer > enabled
6. xml > active / libxml2 2.9.1
7. gd > enabled

What am I missing here ? What can I do to make the welcome screen start ?

I added the phpinfo file.

[brutusmaximus]

Error reporting shows:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PharException' with message 'phar "../public_html/cmsms/cmsms-2.0-beta1-install.php" SHA1 signature could not be verified: broken signature' in ..public_html/cmsms/cmsms-2.0-beta1-install.php:14 Stack trace: #0 ../public_html/cmsms/cmsms-2.0-beta1-install.php(14): Phar::webPhar(NULL, 'index.php') #1 {main} thrown in ../public_html/cmsms/cmsms-2.0-beta1-install.php on line 14

[cb2004]

Same fatal error for me.

[chandra]

The same here too ...

[velden]

My first and wild guess would be the installed Suhosin extension.

I had some troubles with Zend Guard Loader. After disabling that one, installation completed successfully.

[hgpdesign]

Also a white screen for us.

PHP Version 5.5.11

[Stikki]

Instead of white screen, could you enable PHP error reporting and set it to E_STRICT, this should generate some sort of message whats going wrong

Thanks

UPDATE: brutusmaximus already provided error, you guys could check its the same one.

[klenkes]

I had the same error. Then uploaded the archive in BINARY-Mode per FTP and the error was gone.

[cb2004]

Yep, that does the trick. If FileZilla is in the 'Transfrer type' > 'Auto' then because of the PHP file extension it gets treated as ASCII. Sure this will be the same for many FTP programs. An update of the README-PHAR.txt should be enough, but I suspect the forum will still get flooded.

[Stikki]

Oh man so its not PHAR installer itself but FTP XD

And agree that this is huge issue.

[calguy1000]

1. Install instructions explicitly state to expand the zip file ON the server using your web hosts control panel or a better technology than ftp.
2. Please move away from ftp which is probably the worst file transfer mechanism out there.
3. We have stated for YEARS that you should use binary mode to transfer files if you insist on using ftp.

[brutusmaximus]

1. Install instructions explicitly state to expand the zip file ON the server using your web hosts control panel or a better technology than ftp.

Yes after checking the instuctions I noticed expanding the package on the server. [edit] found the extract function in the filemanager of direct admin[/edit]

2. Please move away from ftp which is probably the worst file transfer mechanism out there.
- I don't have SSH access, but uploading with my control panel is an option.
3. We have stated for YEARS that you should use binary mode to transfer files if you insist on using ftp.
Then I missed that for a couple of years.

I uploaded the file with my DirectAdmin controlpanel and extracted it with the code above. Without success. I tried it for 4 times.

[calguy1000]

Most hosts have a control panel that allows uploading files, and an option to unzip files. Even the most crappy control panel I've used had that option somewhere.

And if your host doesn't have a web control panel that allows uploading and unzipping files, then it's probably time to consider moving to a host that doesn't suck.

[brutusmaximus]

1. Uploaded the file with the filemanager DirectAdmin.
2. Found the extract function in the filemanager.
3. Ran the file and the same error pops up.

I appreciate all the effort and time for helping me. Thanks in advance @calguy.

@cb2004, @candra and @hgpdesign did you manage to install CMS MS 2.0 by changing the FTP transfermode to binair ?

[hgpdesign]

We uploaded (with Fetch) the zip file and 'unzipped' it on the server with PHP UnZIP (unzip.zip-> unzip.php) and now we have our 'welcome screen'!