Hi everyone:

I just downloaded Xoops, configured the MySQL database by creating a database and a user with all privileges (for testing purposes), but after confirming the database information and clicking on Next, I get a blank page. I tried searching the wikis and the forum first, and realized some people had this problem, but couldn't find the fix!

Here is some information on my Fedora 2 server.

# rpm -q mysql-server
mysql-server-3.23.58-9
# rpm -q httpd
httpd-2.0.51-2.7
# rpm -q php
php-4.3.8-2.1


and this is what gets logged from apache:
tail /var/log/httpd/error_log
[client 192.168.1.1] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant XOOPS_ROOT_PATH - assumed 'XOOPS_ROOT_PATH' in /var/www/html/install/index.php on line 258, referer: http://127.0.0.1/install/index.php

Please let me know if you know of a fix for this. In the meantime I'm gonna dump the database and start with a fresh install, again!

Thanks in advance for your help!

By the way, selecting "View page source" on Firefox 1 yields

problem solved. It was problems with database connection/user accounts.

Just make sure the info provided to XOOPS is accurate, and the user indeed has permissions to use the database.

cheers and happy xoopsing

Just so you don't feel like you've been talking to yourself, I'm happy you got it solved without too many bruises on the head.

I'll be interested in hearing how well Fedora works out for you. My RH 8 is already abandoned by RH so I've been doing full source compiles to keep up to date. (another server of mine started life as RH 5.0 and is still going strong with source compiles of everything, uptime measured in years).

Good luck.

Hey, Fedora is just great!

you've got yum or apt for package updates, and you can configure them to update bleeding edge packages (beta or testing stuff), or simply official releases, by adding more repositories.

Overall Fedora is a very stable, dynamic, and reliable server. Would recommend it to anyone. Also check out fedorafaq.org, fedoraforum.org and fedoranews.org.