Hello. Having worked with Zope, Joomla & WP I am keen to try XOOPS (on recommendation). I am not a techie but can code and have good relationships with my host techies, however we can't get past the install problem:

As far as the environment, all db/apache etc are equal to or above the requirements, I have downloaded the latest Xoops, I have followed the advice and all green lights come up through the install...

Until I hit the screen with XOOPS Physical Path
I first entered Sites (which is at the top level and where ALL the files that were under htdocs now reside).

then I get 2 red alerts:
1. Could not detect the physical path to your XOOPS directory.
2. Physical path must be a directory.

If I try just / (instead of Sites) I get one error
1. Could not detect the physical path to your XOOPS directory.

We even tried /volumes/xraid01/users/
and ./
and /volumes/xraid01/users//Sites

And I went in and added clearstatcache(); in mainfilemanager.php before
$content = fread($file, filesize($this->path) );
fclose($file);

to see if that helped - no luck!

Can't find any reference or help in the forums after 3 hours looking

Please help, to me XOOPS looks like the best bet platform, but I can't prove that yet!

Regards
Zaph

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Hello Steve

I appreciate that multiple posts don't help - I have made just two, one was on a thread that I couldn't be sure was the same issue, so it might be overlooked. Also the seach mechanism doesn't seem to pick up all relevant threads unless the post title has certain relevant text in it (or so it seems).

Sorry if I have transgressed, hopefully someone can suggest the cause and solution to what would seem to be a fairly basic (and common) issue?

regards
Zaph

FYI to anyone finding this post - I have similar request on another post and will continue the efforts to resolve the install issue there (still unresolved) but have had good help so far plaese follow post " XOOPS Physical Path, mainfile.php error".

(I don't know how to link posts or delete threads...

Z