Architecture / Installation

Hey theweb!

A belated thanks for your help. Anyone who has had the same install problems I had with Tiki should read this.

I just about gave up on TikiWiki. In fact, I installed Drupal and E107 and found that I liked both of them, but they still did not offer all that Tiki does.

Actually, it was a good thing that I installed them, because I found that in my installation of Drupal, I received a very similar error message that I received in trying to install Tiki. I searched Drupal's forums and found the answer.

I am on a Linux shared hosting account and I use Cpanel to administer my account. I used the edit file ability within Cpanel to alter my Drupal config file for my database info.

After I altered the config file, I saved it and boom! The same error messages as Tiki. What I learned was that the file edit tool adds an extra blank line or two to my config file.

I went back to the config file and erased the extra lines and re-saved the config file--it worked!

I decided to try this with TikiWiki's config file. Sure enough, the file editor added an extra line and that's what caused Tiki to generate the errors. Once I erased the extra blank line, Tiki fired up without a problem.

I'm now in the process of testing out Tiki.

Thanks again, for your interest and help. I hope that my discovery will assist others.

Take care and God bless!
Don