Installation problem

[ewb]

Hi. I'm running CMS Made Simple 1.1.4.1. I have gone through the installation process shown in the documentation (http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... ell_Instal) but I am having problem going beyond step 6. Somehow my screens turn blanck and nothing happens as I go into step 7. I believe the installation is supposed to start as soon as my page is loaded but it gives me a blanck screens and the page displays the "done" message. Please help, I have been struggling with this same problem for some time now and don't know what to do anymore.
Thanks

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

what do you see in your http logS ?
please tell us more about your context, usual questions : hosting, OS, versionS, setings, "view source"...

Pierre M.

[ewb]

So I am running on Apache/1.3.29 PHP/5.2.1 with mod_perl/1.29, FrontPage/5.0.2.2635, mod_ssl/2.8.16, and OpenSSL/0.9.7d MySQL/4.0.27

So it looks like the server is compatible with CMS.

It seems that "smarty" doesn't print out any of the template content:

echo("I'm here before this->smarty->display('installer_start.tpl')");

              // Output HTML
              $this->smarty->display('installer_start.tpl'); // display page start
              $this->smarty->display('header.tpl');          // display header
              $page->preContent($db);                            // pre-content
              $page->displayContent();                      // display page content
              $this->smarty->display('installer_end.tpl');  // display page end

echo("I'm here after this->smarty->display('installer_end.tpl')\n");

Looks like smarty->display has a problem printing out template content.

[Dr.CSS]

Have you tried FTP install?...

[ewb]

Yes I have, but I can not CHMOD the required files using this method. Only secure shell will allow me to do so on the server I am using.

[Pierre M.]

what do you see in your http logS ?

What is in your cms/tmp floder ? with which permissions ?
Do you use a supported admin browser ?
What is the source of the "blank done" page ?

Pierre M.