UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 7 Installation and Upgrade Support Step 8 problems

have followed all the step outlined in the UBBthreads install guide, however on step 8 it says "You may now proceed to the next step to create all of the necessary database tables" I click the next step button and get a page that says "Failed to write config:"

What do I do?

Did you run into any issues with the previous steps?
Is your includes/config.inc.php file chmodded 666?

includes/config.inc.php is read/write (666)

no problems in any previous steps all passed.

Hmm, the only time that error is triggered is if it can't write to the config file. There must be some type of permission problem that's keeping it from passing that step. Try this, line 100 of the install/createtable.php script looks like this:

$fd = @fopen("{$config['FULL_PATH']}/includes/config.inc.php","w");

Change that, to this and it should give the actual problem:

$fd = fopen("{$config['FULL_PATH']}/includes/config.inc.php","w");

odd.. The message hasn't changed.
Still same error message.

The first time I set up UBB (Version 5?) I was a little confused between the paths/urls ( I knew what the difference was, but I wasn't sure which one was wanted) and while it "passed" some of the steps, it wasn't correct.

If I remember right, I had to run it a few times and some places wanted the ending "/" and some places didn't, or was that a "\"?

Rick,

May I make a suggestion, in the help files maybe you could include a screen shot with examples? It would go a LONG way to resolve this issue with perfect clarity. Maybe you have done this already? I honestly don't know as it has been over a year since I looked at the help install documents.

Anyway, Chad, are you sure you have all the paths listed correctly and that you aren't listing a URL where you need to put in the path (ie c:\inetpub\wwwroot\etc.).

Oh, and along this line, I guess there would have to be a different one for Windows and Unix based systems.

Fred

I'm having the exact same problem. Every prior step passed all tests, and the path and URL names are entered similar to the examples given (although I included the drive letter for the absolute path name and used backslashes). I tried editing the line of code mentioned above, and still receive the same "Failed to write config:" error message. Note that I have Win2000 server, and just installed both PHP 5.2.2 and MySQL 5.0.41 (essential edition). Has anyone found a solution to this problem?

Basically what tends to happen when you get a "Failed to write config" message is that a file cannot be found; it's basically a 404 error thrown by the server after PHP has tried to call the file when it's being run as a CGI binary. Once it's run the file it doesn't re-run the file, so it doesn't spew a normal 404 error.

Shane, could you post me exactly what you're putting in as your paths?

Hmm, it's working now. I tried running the install script again, using these paths:

http://domainname.com
/ubbthreads
D:/Data/domainname.com/ubbthreads

Whereas before I had:

http://domainname.com/
/ubbthreads
D:\Data\domainname.com\ubbthreads

Maybe UBB.Threads doesn't support backslashes, or the extra slash in the domain was throwing it for a loop. I'd suggest to the design team to 'touchup' these addresses so they will change backslashes to forwardslashes and remove trailing slashes if necessary.

Thanks! Shane

The webserver itself doesn't like backslashes, forward slashes should always be used if possible; think of it as:
\ for Local Computer
/ For internet

Thanks! I'm used to ASP coding, where local/absolute paths are returned with backslashes (like with Server.MapPath).