install.php blank? (solved)

[ane]

Trying to install CMSMS 1.0.4 on FreeBSD 6 with PHP 5.2.1, MySQL 5.0.37, and Apache 1.3.34.

Stuck at step 7 of http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... ll_Install - install.php is simply blank.  There is no content whatsoever.

The only (probably unrelated) error in httpd-error.log is:
[Thu Mar 15 11:47:41 2007] [error] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  debug in /cms/lib/misc.functions.php on line 109

Can anyone help?

[ane]

Thanks to Pierre M in post http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg53695 , I fixed it by installing the php session extension.

Went to
/usr/ports/www/php5-session
make install clean
apachectl restart

My extensions.ini now looks like:
extension=mysql.so
extension=tokenizer.so
extension=xml.so
extension=session.so

and the install.php page comes up!  Thanks Pierre!


BTW, if anyone gets a mostly blank page when on step 4 of install.php, try installing the PEAR framework for PHP:

cd /usr/ports/devel/pear
make install clean
apachectl restart

[ane]

If anyone gets stuck on Step 4 with a "Can't connect to database" error, try this:

1. Create your database and remember to flush privileges:

mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE cms;
GRANT ALL privileges on cms.* to cms_user@localhost identified by 'cms_pass';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit

2. Then retype your password in the database password field (in Step 4's form) and press Submit/continue.

Hope this helps someone.

[Pierre M.]

Welcome and thank you for the feedback !
Feel free to contribute FreeBSD hints to the wiki.

Pierre M.