infinite installation loop

Thursday 16 September 2004 4:54:35 am

I am not installing eZ publish for the first time, so i wonder what went wrong this time: on one of our new linux servers i end up in an infinite installation loop. I select the site ("plain" for example) and eZ publish tells me, that the installation is finished. When I try to access the user site I always get the installation setup screen. Infact eZ does not create the site with the folders, etc that I have choosen. We have tried it on a local Windows machine and everything is fine. Any hints for me? I can not figure out what is wrong!

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Friday 17 September 2004 1:12:52 am

Hello bård,

thanks for your reply. settings/override/site.ini.append exists, but it is empty.
Which rights should it have? After the non-finished installation it has 666. Is this okay, or should it be 777?

Nico

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Monday 20 September 2004 2:03:43 am

Since we have tried to install eZ on our new webserver for almost 20 times without success, (with different minor ideas of what might have gone wrong) we will now reinstall the OS (SUSE Linux 9.0) on the Webserver and try again.
We have an "Strato High End Server" (just as an info for users, who might have the same problem).

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Monday 20 September 2004 5:07:02 am

we are using Apache Version 2.0.48 and

# rpm -qa --last | grep php
apache2-mod_php4-4.3.3-50 Mon May 10 13:59:08 2004
mod_php4-core-4.3.3-50 Mon May 10 13:59:05 2004
phpdoc-4.3.0-37 Mon May 10 13:57:09 2004

OS is SUSE 9.0

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Tuesday 21 September 2004 7:36:03 am

I am sorry for this kind of monologue here.

Maybe it will help someone else in the end.

I actually stumbled over a little difference between our two servers:
the one that creates the "infinite installation loop" uses a slightly different php-version:

# rpm -qa --last | grep php
mod_php4-core-4.3.3-177 Mon Sep 20 15:07:52 2004
apache2-mod_php4-4.3.3-177 Mon Sep 20 15:07:49 2004
phpdoc-4.3.0-37

But it this really the cause for the loop?
It seems like the setup-script that creates the folders and the other stuff, does not work or does not have the rights to work properly.

I compared the rights in /kernel/setup and they are the same on both servers.

Hm.

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Wednesday 22 September 2004 7:03:54 am

Yes, we can edit the site.ini.append.php with pico.

We have inserted some echo commands in the ezdir.php in the function doMkdir

function doMkdir( $dir, $perm )
{
include_once( "lib/ezutils/classes/ezdebugsetting.php" );

$oldumask = umask( 0 );
if ( ! @mkdir( $dir, $perm ) )
{
umask( $oldumask );
// eZDebug::writeError( "Couldn't create the directory \"$dir\".", "eZDir::doMkdir()" );
echo "<br>+-<br>| whoami=" . exec('whoami') . "<br>";
echo "| pwd =" . exec('pwd') . "<br>";
echo "| id =" . exec('id') . "<br>+--<br>";
echo "Couldn't create the directory \"$dir\" with ";
printf("0%o<br>", $perm);

return false;
}
umask( $oldumask );

return true;
}

It returns the following output (example) when the installer is finished (after the click on the "send registration" button:

+-
| whoami=e20090401372142
| pwd =/home/i/iddis.de/ezpublish-3.4.1
| id =uid=500(e20090401372142) gid=60006(www) groups=60006(www)
+--
Couldn't create the directory "design/news" with 0777

so the installer script seems not to be able to create the the proper site.ini.append.php
and the directories of the choosen installation (for example "corporate")

we set the rights of the design, settings and var directories to 777.

There has to be some kind of other restriction to the setup script, but which?

For today we run out of new ideas.

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Wednesday 22 September 2004 7:34:30 am

well, actually I do not know where to look for the rights of the "design catalog"

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Sunday 13 December 2009 3:19:59 pm

where did you find Login-shell etc as i cant find it. Im having the same problem, either no install or plain package just loops. This cms looks like the best thing in the world, but its a ttal PITA to install.