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Hello, all.

Following the "Quick Install via FTP" instructions, I get everything uploaded into a folder I've called "cms" in the "public_html" area of my hosted domain and changed the permissions on 4 files/folders (step 4) and the empty config.php I've created and uploaded (step 5). I then created an empty MySQL database using name/username/password as suggested in Step 6.

I then browse to *mydomain*/index.php and (instead of getting the "Thanks for installing CMS" screen, I get:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/*mydomain*/public_html/cms/index.php on line 141

Can you help me?  Thanks.  PHILIP CAPLAN

(One possibility is the permissions; I'm using an FTP client that describes permissions in a matrix of "Read"/"Read/Write"/"Execute" against options of "Owner"/"Group"/"Everyone".  I have assumed that chmod 777 eqauls all 9 boxes ticked; and chmod 666 equals all 3 boxes ticked for "Owner" and "Group", but none ticked for "Everyone"

Try uploading index.php again.  It sounds like the file didn't complete.

Oh, and to answer your question, 666 means that Owner/Group/Everyone has read and write access, but not execute.  However, I don't think that's related to your problem.

Thanks for that, wishy.

It worked. I have now got to "Step 10" in the Installation Insructions (Database Information) but when I press "Continue" I get the following error message:

Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user: 'cms_user@localhost' (Using password: YES) in /home/personal/public_html/cms/lib/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 340
Connection failed

I tried leaving "Database host address" as localhost (got message above) and changing it to my domain name (got same message but with user 'cms_user@*domain*'

Could you help me again, please   :>   Thanks   PHILIP CAPLAN

OK, I'm nearly there now!!

Turns out that my "Database name" and "Username" both needed to be prefixed with an abbreviation of my domain name -- that's the way my cPanel created them!

So, I got all the way through step 12, with everything marked [done], and the message: "Congratulations, you are all setup. Here is your CMS site"

So, I clicked on the link at "CMS site", but instead of my site coming up I got:

Warning: _get_plugin_filepath(/home/personal/public_html/cms/lib/smarty/core/core.assemble_plugin_filepath.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/personal/public_html/cms/lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1362

Fatal error: _get_plugin_filepath(): Failed opening required '/home/personal/public_html/cms/lib/smarty/core/core.assemble_plugin_filepath.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/personal/public_html/cms/lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1362

Aaaaarghh!  What's missing now???????????????




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I recommend SmartFTP, I've been using it for years (free for personal use, nice GUI)

Thanks, Patricia.  I looked at the file in my FTP client and discovered that its name had been truncated to end ".p" instead of ".php".

I renamed it, then went through the other files in that folder, and did the same to several others that had been similarly cut off.

And that did it.    :>

Also, thanks to KnightWolfJK for the suggestion of SmartFTP, but I'm on a Macintosh (using MacOS 9.2.2) so SmartFTP  isn't available to me :>  I'm using Fetch 3.0.3, which is I think the last version of Fetch to be freeware before they moved on to the paid-for versions.

Thanks again for all the help I've had here. Now to get started on the real adventure!!!  PHILIP

For the Mac, I use Transmit.  Granted, it isn't free, but it works incredibly well.

http://www.panic.com/transmit

Fetch 3.0.3 seems to work OK for me. My earlier problems were *not* with my FTPing, it turned out, but with my un-zipping.

I used the Stuffit Expander I've had for a few years, and got no error messages, but some of the files on inspection turned out to have "garbage" at their ends.Re-unstuffing produced visually-intact files, which when oploaded worked perfectly.  :>

PHILIP