Problem after installation

[TO]

Dear All,

First of all: This CMS system looks very nice and I cannot wait to get started with it. After running through the installation guide without any problems, I get the following fault message when I visit the site or try to login the admin system. (see www.olsengroup.dk as well)

string(50) "Smarty error: problem creating directory 'd:/home'" string(50) "Smarty error: problem creating directory 'd:/home'"
Warning: fetch(d:\home\olsengroupdk\www/tmp/templates_c\%%D8\D86\D862692E%%template%3A4.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in d:\home\olsengroupdk\www\lib\smarty\Smarty.class.php on line 1265

Warning: fetch(): Failed opening 'd:\home\olsengroupdk\www/tmp/templates_c\%%D8\D86\D862692E%%template%3A4.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in d:\home\olsengroupdk\www\lib\smarty\Smarty.class.php on line 1265


Look forward to hearing from you and thanks in advance.

TO.

[cyberman]

Which version of CMSms you are using ?

[TO]

Thanks for getting back to me. I am using the latest release.

TO

[cyberman]

string(50) "Smarty error: problem creating directory 'd:/home'" string(50) "Smarty error: problem creating directory 'd:/home'"
Warning: fetch(d:\home\olsengroupdk\www/tmp/templates_c\%%D8\D86\D862692E%%template%3A4.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in d:\home\olsengroupdk\www\lib\smarty\Smarty.class.php on line 1265

Have you set right permissions to template_c folder (chmod 777)?

[TO]

My webhotel provider said that the permission should be okay, but I will check it with them again.
Will come back...

Thanks
TO

[Mike8888]

I am having a very similar problem using version 0.13 (the latest zip) after installation:

string(54) "Smarty error: problem creating directory 'C:/Websites'" string(54) "Smarty error: problem creating directory 'C:/Websites'"

This directory already exists on my server.  This directory is also in the path to the CMS installation directory.  Regardless of the rights on templates_c, why is CMS trying to create it?  And why is it trying to create/write to anything outside of its document root?

[cyberman]

Regardless of the rights on templates_c, why is CMS trying to create it?

It's needed for smarty caching. Smarty is CMSms template engine.

[Mike8888]

That doesn't explain why CMS is trying to make directory "C:\Websites" when it already exists.  Also, security-wise, CMS should't be allowed to do anything outside of the "C:\Websites\CMS\" directory.

I am not a PHP coder, but ...

Looking through the script code though, I see one "Smarty" module ("[root install]\lib\smarty\internals\core.create_dir_structure.php") is trying to load a setting ("open_basedir") from some "php.ini" file.  When I checked what it was loading during execution, it was an empty string, which obviously isn't correct.  I looked though the installation code and saw nothing actually setting INI values using "ini_set."  Am I correct that the installation is supposed to set some of the INI settings?

[Dr.CSS]

running windoze or linux...
went thru the installation as put fourth in the "handbook" ?

[Mike8888]

Hello,

I'm remotely administering Windows 2000 Server using IIS 5.0 with PHP 4.3.8.  I installed CMS version 0.13 (zip) using the Install via FTP handbook.  All the steps worked successfully until I clicked the final link to test the CMS installation, which produced the "Smarty" error I posted above.

Also of note is that CHMOD using SmartFTP wouldn't work due to hosting restrictions, so I remotely changed the CMS root directory using "Remote Desktop" to allow all access for the meantime.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Ted]

Ok, two suggestions here.

1. Open up lib/content.functions.php.  Look for $this->use_sub_dirs = true; near the top.  Change it to $this->use_sub_dirs = false;

2. Change fileloc.php to

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define("CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION", dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'config.php');
define("TMP_CACHE_LOCATION", dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'tmp' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'cache');
define("TMP_TEMPLATES_C_LOCATION", dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'tmp' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'templates_c');

However, please try step 1 before moving on to step 2 and let me know how it goes.

Thanks!

[Mike8888]

Well, thanks a lot for getting me further.  Changing the setting to false got me to the main page (your first option).

Unfortunately, when I tried to go to the administration page via the link on the main page, I got some access violation.  After just reloading the page, the admin logon screen came up (and continues to come up without problem).  But, upon logging in, all I get is a blank page, with the URL being one path directory up (and outside) of the document root.  I know there are other forums dealing with this different issue, so I'll look into those to see what solutions exist.

Again, I appreciate your help.