B2evolution

[tuxxer]

Hi all

I downloaded B2evoulution , which is a php blogging script and then followed the instructions and uploaded all to my website

However when I went to the mysql control panel in control panel , i am stumped. I tried doing a search on the forums for this type of problem, and found a post that had a link to an aletia faq on how to set up tables from scratch and turns out the link was either dead or mistyped.

Is there a FAQ on jag for setting up this type of thing ?

As well , it recomends that you take a generic _config.php script and insert your values for the appropriate settings

# *** MySQL settings ***
# fill with your database details (check carefully or nothing will work)
$dbhost = 'myblog' ; // mySQL Server
$dbname = 'databasename'; // the name of the database
$dbusername = 'user'; // your MySQL username
$dbpassword = 'password'; // ...and password

Could someone point me to what the actual values would be , using a generic account , so I can swap out those values and put mine in.

Thanks for all replys

Tuxxer

[gerilya]

Hi,
$dbhost should be 'localhost' the rest you define with your control panel.

[jason]

In CPanel, create a database and a user account and give the user access to the database. It doesn't matter what you use for the name, but since you are installing B2, a database name like "b2" or "blog" might be appropriate. Note that whatever you type in for the database and user names will be prepended by your CPanel username and an underscore. So if you create a database called "b2" you'll want to use "USERNAME_b2" in the script. The same goes for the username.

--Jason

[tuxxer]

Thanks for the replies so far , at least I am confident that I set up the script parameters ,with the new info.

So far no joy though.

From what I have tried , I set up the db in the control panel,and enabled the user and password with the control panel , with your instructions in mind.

However what seems to be stumping me, is that after setting the full path of the URL where the index.html resides , i keep getting a 404 error message.

The index html , for the blogging software is whats going to setup the default tables , I imagine that it will talk with sql and then uncompress the full program, that may not be the right way of saying what I think will happen , just seems to be a good analogy.

Is this basically a path problem , that it should go through the index file of my website first , or does this sound like it should go indepently of what ever actual website.

I noticed that when i enabled the phpbb on the control panel, the actual path , when i type it in , is www.mysite.ca/forums, this makes me think its a path problem ,or a permissions problem for the path ,to get beyond www.mysite.ca.

Any other ideas or what not are appreciated

tuxxer

[jason]

If thescript is looking for a "full path," it probably means the path in the server's file system, NOT the URL. On the JPC servers, all user accounts are stored in a directory called /home. The full path to your account would be /home/USERNAME, where USERNAME is the username you use to access your site with CPanel, etc. Your public_html directory is /home/USERNAME/public_html, and any directories inside your public_html get added to the tree as appropriate (/home/USERNAME/public_html/DIRNAME, etc).

--Jason

[tuxxer]

Okay , just an update

So far everything is about 90% there , except for some problem that I am having with cookies, seems the program is dependent on serverside cookies ,rather than end user browser cookies.

Will keep everyone posted, this is bound to happen with someone else.

Tux