Architecture / Installation

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 30 Nov 2007 06:05 GMT-0000 posts: 4645

Have you tried other Web applications with the same server setup, and if so do they work normally? I run Tiki on a few Windows PCs for testing and haven't had path problems, but I'm using Apache (Reactor Server WAMP package). As far as I know, Tiki gets the base directory info from the server — at least in the case of Apache it's an Apache environment variable — and Tiki's paths reflect that info. Is it possible to test another Web script from a subdirectory of your Web root and see if it works or not?

-- Gary

Posted by stugs 30 Nov 2007 15:28 GMT-0000 posts: 3

ok, I found the issue..

In tiki-setup.php it has

The PHP dirname function is stripping off the install directory from the path. I tried moving my install to 'c:\wiki\' and dirname strips it down to 'c:\'.

I just modified the if statement to be...

Posted by baijianpeng 11 Dec 2008 07:50 GMT-0000 posts: 56

hi, stugs,

What code did you modified acturely ? I can't understand your comment about "I just modified the if statement to be...", can you make it clear what code should be changed to what ?

Thanks.

Posted by delusionaldude 24 Apr 2009 21:02 GMT-0000 posts: 1

baijianpeng,

not sure if you are still trying to fix this, but i managed to get the install working on win 2k8 and iis 7. you need to replace the code referenced above in the lib/setup/tikisetup.class.php file to:

if (strpos($_SERVER'SERVER_SOFTWARE','IIS')==TRUE){
if (array_key_exists('PATH_TRANSLATED', $_SERVER)) {
$docroot = getcwd();
}
}
else{
$docroot = getcwd();
}

Good luck!

Posted by Fallback 08 May 2009 10:22 GMT-0000 posts: 4

Hi everybody,

this is my first post here. ;)

So let's begin with my problem...

I think I've the same windows path problem. I try to install TikiWiki on Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0, PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.0.
When I use the TW 2.0 tiki-install.php I get a
"The directory 'c:\inetpub\wwwroot/templates_c/' does not exist."
and it doesn't matter if I change the code in the lib/setup/lib/tikisetup.class.php or not.

I even tried TikiWiki 3.0 and here I get just a blank page, but I think it refers to the same error.

Maybe the install.php gets confused with the windows directory naming? Especially the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\.. instead of something like /htdocs/tikiwiki/...
And even \wwwroot\ is not really correct, it should be \wwwroot\tikiwiki\..

How can one change this? Or why is it with some IIS installations, is there some configuration wrong?

I know that u can change the SERVER_PATH in the php.ini with doc_root = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\" (default is c:\inetpub, which is even more wrong). But it doesn't change much.

FYI phpinfo, phpmyadmin and even DokuWiki works just fine.

Any help is most appreciated, thx alot,

Tobi

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Edit:

I just changed PHP from ISAPI to FastCGI and enabled cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 and now I get:
"The directory 'c:\inetpub\wwwroot\tikiwiki2\tiki-install.php/templates_c/' does not exist."

As one can see, it cannot work this way. :/
TikiWiki 3.0 shows still a blank page.

Posted by Xavier de Pedro 08 May 2009 15:48 GMT-0000 posts: 1817

blank pages are usually due to low memory_limit set in your php.ini
See the FAQS: http://doc.tikiwiki.org/faq6

Posted by Fallback 11 May 2009 07:25 GMT-0000 posts: 4

Hi,

thx for ur suggestion and the requirements link. I checked the memory_limit and it is at 128M, so I think thats far enough. Only the max_execution_time was at 30 instead of 300, I changed this but that isn't the problem.

Do u or anyone know how to change the behavior of the install script to use only "$docroot" and not "$docroot+(tiki)"?
Because "$docroot" isn't enough, as I pointed out in my last post.
Or should I change it manually? Will it work?

Thx,
Tobi

Posted by akantro 26 May 2009 02:21 GMT-0000 posts: 41

ok . . so i got the same error after upgrading to tikiwiki 3.0 where it couldn't find all the directories and it was looking for root instead of root + tikiwiki directory.

after making the change above that was suggested, i now get a blank page.

any suggestions??