haven't gotten that far to install modules yet! Still working on the standard ones that come with the install

the dirs were all set at 0755
so.. looked at the files uploaded closer.
found the problem .. about 5 files (from the modules/profile dir) transfered to the server but with nothing in them. I was counting files before and didn't glance at size! I re uploaded them. It didn't fix the problem.. so I did another install from the beginning and it worked. I now have the user profile module!!

yep those were the only files I put higher on the chain!

I'll check out xampp, I definately would experiment more if I was doing this on my pc!

Well, I think I finally have a good install of the core pgm!

next will be modules!! YIKES!!! (just kidding)

Thank you all for your help! I couldn't have done it without you!!

wow.. that is good info! Thanks!!

I moved the files up to the xoops dir (htdocs is under xoops still) and renamed them. I don't think i have an index.htm file in all my directories (non xoops), I will definately go and check that out and put one in if there isn't one. Thanks! does it matter if it is .htm or .html??

I was thinking when going live I would put all the htdocs stuff right in the root (public_html) dir so the site would access at adsg.org. Not sure if that is a good idea though? that means I would have to put those other files in adsg above public_html. I can do that, but not sure if that would be appropriate???

Yeah.. you are right, I should be doing this on my computer. I did have apache triad running on my computer and used it for smf. But what happened is it didn't always work the same way as on the server and then my computer crashed and I haven't re downloaded apache triad.

This xoops attempt was going to be a "quick" look at xoops to see if it would work for my site. I stumbled upon xoops because I saw that smf offered a bridge to xoops. I had kinda given up on a cms a couple years ago when joomla broke with smf. Joomla went in the trash and SMF stayed as my users love smf and are very picky about their forum. So it wasn't worth upseting them. I, on the other hand want to slowly ween them to a cms with a forum.. the only way I will be able to do that and keep them happy as it transitions is by using a cms that has a bridge to SMF. So the other day when I saw the smf bridge to xoops, I figured I needed to check this out. But I was too impatient to set up a server on my pc.

but you are right, I'll have to make it a priority to get apache triad again and get it set up.

yep the profile dir under modules is NOT 0777, I changed it now to 0777, the modules dir is NOT 0777 should that one be 0777 too? Also, should I change the directories under modules and modules/profile to 0777 too?

oh.. I would love to decompress the files on my server instead of ftp!!! It takes forever to ftp them! I don't know how to do that though. Would you be willing to tell me how to do that?

Thank you so much for all this info! It is wonderful and very helpful! I really appreciate it very much!

Thank you!

I had the rights at 0774, thinking that would be enough. I changed it to 0777 and that did the trick.

Now do I leave all those folders at 0777 or change them back now that the install completed?

red, that is the way my isp set up the directories.. they don't want us to put anything before public_html as public_html is the root of the website. All I know about that is adsg is my account and for some reason they added the public_html dir as the root of the site.

I think I might try that though whenever I get to a point to go live with this. But right now I have a live site and I am keeping xoops in the regular install directory so play with it and see if I can convert the regular site to xoops. I'm thinking once I go live that I will have to put the contents of htdocs in the root of my website is that correct?

Hey new problem: on the install where it gets to the place to install the modules there is module that is called "module file for not found" I went ahead and clicked yes to install it but something isn't right.

here is a pic of the install screen and a pic of the module maintaince/administration page once xoops installed. Is this correct??

http://adsg.org/xoop/xoop.htm

thanks! I ran the install and everything went fine (well almost). I changed the location so it could find the files and everything went great UNTIL installing the mod messaging, so I skipped the mod and continued. went good said it was installed reminded you to delete install dir if there is one. And then you hit the FINAL next button.

Then guess what... error can't find one of the relocated dirs.. but the exact path it states is there and does exist.. I started the install again just in case... same problems at the end of the install

here is the error:
Error: Smarty error: the $compile_dir '/usr/home/adsg/public_html/xoops/htdocs/dat/xoopdat/caches/smarty_compile' does not exist, or is not a directory.

but that dir does exist and it is there!

Hi, I'm getting ready to install xoops. When reading the instructions I have a question on #3.

3. For security considerations, you are encouraged to move directories "/xoops_lib" (for XOOPS libraries) and "/xoops_data" (for XOOPS data) out of document root, or even change the folder names.

I just want to check, does that mean before the install, I can rename those directories to anything I want and the install will still go smoothly?