Have you made the file writable by the server?

Graham wrote:

Have you made the file writable by the server?

Yep, I've done that and it hasn't helped. To be sure it isn't a permissions problem, I did a chmod -R a+w ./b2evolution/ (once I fiugre out what the problem is, I'll be reinstalling from the zipped archive.

/S_G

I had no problems with pretty much the same setup, doing the same install. Is apache working with everything else? I'd delete everything, re-download the zip and try again. It might have been missing files or something... :S I'm running out of ideas here. I'm totall unable to reproduce this problem on my remote linux account or my local windows apache.

Graham wrote:

Is apache working with everything else? I'd delete everything, re-download the zip and try again. It might have been missing files or something...

I re-downloaded the zip file and have the same problem. :(

Apache works fine w/ the basic test page from the Fedora install and the PHP info link on the b2evo install page shows me as having PHP 4.3.6

To clear up my initial post, No tables have been added to the database. I've tried giving the config page the mysql root user and pass but it makes no difference.

Hmm...

/S_G

I've tried installing v9.0.8 (instead of 9.0.10) and still encounter the same problem. It must be somehting in the Apache or PHP config, but I don't know what...

I saw one post (search for paranoid and android) that mentioned limitting the inclusion of php scripts from outside the working directory - could this be my problem (perhaps a default in Fedora install?) How would I go about checking?

You could try installing something like phpbb (thats got a dead easy set up too), that would probably narrow it down to either a b2evo problem, or a problem with your set up in general.

Graham wrote:

You could try installing something like phpbb (thats got a dead easy set up too), that would probably narrow it down to either a b2evo problem, or a problem with your set up in general.

Heh - that was a good test!

The phpBB install reported: The PHP configuration on your server doesn't support the database type that you chose.

rpm -qa | sort | grep php returned:

php-4.3.6-5
php-ldap-4.3.6-5
php-pear-4.3.6-5

I installed the other php packages that I saw on the Fedora Package list with:

up2date -u php-devel php-imap php-mysql php-pgsql php-xmlrpc php-odbc php-snmp php-domxml

(I think it was probably the lack of php-mysql that caused the problem).

Once up2date is done, I'll see if it worked.

Thanks,

/S_G

That fixed the problem - for Redhat/Fedora users, make sure the the php-mysql package is installed.

Thanks again,
/S_G