Shame to hear ZoneAlarm isn't keen on fixing the problem...

I think the most controllable solution would be to have the installer try to do a referal and if it doesn't work suggest:

"Have you turned off Zone Alarm?" or something.


For me, it was never this problem. It was the PHP, MySQL and Apache stuff...

That's why I'm all into promoting WAMP now as a super quick way to have all 3 up and running before installing XOOPS :)

(XOOPS kicks some SERIOUS ass by the way! :)

Worked like a charm.

Thank you very much! :)
Matt

Hello,

I'm currently using the same theme that xoops.org uses on it's web site.


I'd like to change the text size of the sub-categories on the downloads page to make it easier to read.


Does anyone know where I can change this?


Many Thanks,
Matt

Hi

We want to use our XOOPS site as a type of 'code repository' for software developers.

We want them to be able to upload reusable pieces of code and be able to document concepts to go with that code.


Our idea is that they can use WORD documents and follow a template we provide for them. They can attach their code to the template as an attachment.


Integrating it into the XOOPS site is the challenge.

We figure it's easiest to put them into the downloads section. Is there a better module we should be using?

Or does anyone have any alternate approaches?

We want them to be able to easily browse the resuable-code other people have uploaded and for it to be searchable.

Thanks,
Matt

Hi,

I like the theme used on www.xoops.org. Does anyone know where I can get it or what it is called?

The default theme that comes with the new xoop is good, but xoops.org looks better.


Thank You! :)
Matt

Hello!


Well, I tried Mithrandir's suggestion of adding:

function xoops_refcheck($docheck=1) {
return true;
//previous code
}

to my include/function.php file and sure enough, that got me past the stage of the 'looping first-time-admin screen'.


Then I tried someone else's suggestion of using e-novative's WAMP software (PHP, Apache, MySQL all in one).

Now everything works like a charm -- without the code changes as listed above.

I highly recommend WAMP as it installed everything so incredibly quickly and made everything work together like a charm... :)


Thank you all for your suggestions!!!


A few recommendations would be:

- including WAMP in the suggested list of Web Servers
- adding a check to the installer to see if http referrers are working properly.


I'm so impressed by the communities quick response. In turn, I will respond by making a donation. In no time at all I've setup a great website here that we are really happy with. I'm glad to support such a great open source project.


Thank you all,
Matt

**WOW!**

The number of responses is amazing. I will try all of these things.

Thank You So Much!! XOOPS does seem so much better than the rest and I'll be happy to use it if this works out.


Someone asked for the 'relevant' info from phpinfo(). It's a very big webpage. Which bits should I send?


Lastly, it was also asked if the MySQL tables got setup. I can confirm that the database was create and the tables were created. I didn't check to see if they were populated, but I'm sure they were as it was all 'green boxes' during the install.


I'll begin trying these suggestions right away.

Thanks again!!
Matt

Well... The community here seems really great and I'm sad to say I've given up.

Tomorrow morning I will move to some other software...


I've now installed 3 different web servers, php4 and php5. I've done it on XP and W2K.

No matter what, I get the same problem that so many others have complained about:

When I click 'Administration Menu' I end up in an infinite loop where I see the "This is your first time to enter the administration section. Press the button below to proceed" over and over.


Now everyone has asked about this question and the common answer is:

"Chmod 777 all the directories, or at least cache, templates_c, etc."


However I'm in windows. I've given 'Everyone' 'Full Control' and nothing seems to work.



This user had an alternate suggestion:

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=22159&forum=27#forumpost96811

But I don't have any IUSR accounts on my windows box.



I've allowed all cookies. I am on a corporate network but have no personal firewall. I turned off the connection proxy, so that the browser would only work with the local machine, and that did not fix it either.


So... Apache, Xitami and Roxen are all installed... all the same problem.

<? phpinfo()?> always works, and the install goes flawlessly. No red squares except for 'this db does not exist, create?' and it creates it.


So I'm left at my wit's end. Why does the XOOPS installer not check for this sort of thing during install? If it does check, why can it write to the dir during install but not during the admin menu?


There must be some common problem to all of this.


If you have suggestions, I will certainly try them. If not, I'm sorry, but I've spent way too much time on this and read too many posts where users say:

"What are the NTFS permissions required?" and no one has responded.


Sorry to be so grumpy - we've all been here at one time or another...

Thank you in advance,
Matt

OKAY.... :)

I've GOT it...


I moved away from Apache 2 and PHP 5 on Windows XP and 2000 and moved to the previous versions of each (1.3 and 4.3.8).


That got me past this problem.


Hope this Helps!

I think the next step when i get into the office tomorrow will be to ensure all the php files have execute permissions and all that sort of thing.


Does anyone else have any suggestions?