Installed successfully on host, but won't run

[SteveA]

I've set up CMS Made Simple on a remote, hosted web site. The install went okay, but when I try to access the site ("http://sitename.com/cmsmadesimple"), I get HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden.

As I said, the database was successfully created and everything else looks in order.

[SteveA]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I installed from the zip file on a shared IIS server.

[lemkepf]

When you said the "install" went fine, do you mean you actually ran through the CMS setup process? or did you just copy the files over fine?

Also, more often than not the 403 errors are because your not pointing to the correct spot. Make sure the folder you extracted CMS into has the right files in it, and the name of the folder is spelled correctly. Make sure when you bring it up in the browser it's pointing to the right spot.

Also... make sure index.php is your default index page instead of index.htm/index.asp which is the default of IIS installs. Does: http://sitename.com/cmsmadesimple/index.php work?

[SteveA]

When you said the "install" went fine, do you mean you actually ran through the CMS setup process? or did you just copy the files over fine?

Also, more often than not the 403 errors are because your not pointing to the correct spot. Make sure the folder you extracted CMS into has the right files in it, and the name of the folder is spelled correctly. Make sure when you bring it up in the browser it's pointing to the right spot.

Also... make sure index.php is your default index page instead of index.htm/index.asp which is the default of IIS installs. Does: http://sitename.com/cmsmadesimple/index.php work?

It actually went through the process successfully.

I just went back into my host and set index.php as an acceptable defailt page. When I run through the install again, I get "Congratulations, you are all setup." and a link to "Here is your CMS site". When I click on the link it starts the install process again.

[lemkepf]

Really now? That's interesting. One of the other members will have to answer this one then...

[Ted]

It sounds like it's not finishing writing out the config.php file.  Is there stuff in there?

[SteveA]

The config.php file is in the /cmsmadesimple/ directory, but the file is empty. I checked the file attributes and they're "666".