Installs fine, but nothing functions

Saturday 12 April 2003 11:02:52 am

Apache version is 1.3.27 and PHP version is 4.3.0

My system is FreeBSD 4.4. I do not have root access.

I downloaded this file:

http://www.ez.no/content/download/21553/56381/file/ezpublish-3.0-1.tar.gz

I ran through doc/INSTALL to the letter

On going to www.mysite.com/ I am presented with the installer, which I run through and the installer reports no errors.

At the last screen I get "If you ever want to restart this setup, edit the file settings/site.ini.php and look for a line that says:"

That is the first thing I notice...there is no file called "settings/site.ini.php" (no file with that name anywhere within the site); only settings/site.ini

On loading the website in any browser I get a blank page that takes a while to load as if "something is happening".

On loading via lynx I get:

Looking up www.mysite.com
Making HTTP connection to www.mysite.com
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
Can't Access `http://www.mysite.com/'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile

My httpd.conf file is thus:

<VirtualHost mysite.com>
ServerName www.mysite.com
ServerAlias mysite.com
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /usr/local/etc/httpd/vhosts/mysite.com/htdocs
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/vhosts/mysite.com/cgi-bin/
TransferLog /logs/access.log
ErrorLog /logs/error.log
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""
<Directory /usr/local/etc/httpd/vhosts/mysite.com/htdocs/>
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule !\.(gif|css|jpg|png|jar)$ /usr/local/etc/httpd/vhosts/mysite.com/htdocs/index.php
</VirtualHost>

(The RewriteRule is on one line)

In httpd.conf I have:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
AddModule mod_rewrite.c

and other sites using mod_rewrite function well. I have rewrite log set and debugging level set to 9 but there is no entry in the rewrite log for this VirtualHost.

On using an HTTP HEADER trace program I get:

URL = http://www.mysite.com/
FMT = AUTO
REQ = GET
Sending request:
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.mysite.com

&#8226; Finding host IP address...
&#8226; Finding TCP protocol...
&#8226; Binding to local socket...
&#8226; Connecting to host...
&#8226; Sending request...
&#8226; Receiving response...

Total bytes received = 0
Elapsed time so far: 2 seconds
HTTP header termination string not found
Content (Length = 0):
Done
Total elapsed time: 2 seconds

I would appreciate any help you can provide.

Thank you.
David

Sunday 13 April 2003 10:46:22 am

Are you using the default site.ini that comes with the distribution?

Once I started messing round with that things started working....however on pulling up www.mysite.com/ it still foobars

So, anyone have an idea what a basic site.ini should look like for EZ Publish to serve up public content, without any logins, for www.mysite.com/

I suspect the SIteAccessSettings parameter throws many :-)

Monday 14 April 2003 1:47:13 am

I have the exact same problem. I install seemingly flawlessly, and I get the demo frontpage, or the admin login. I can log in and click on stuff, but all of a sudden it will stop working and the browser will send requests until it pukes and say "Document contains no data". After this happens nothing will work whatsoever. My lynx debug output is the same as mentioned above.
Still reading the manual and twisting my brain over the site.ini file though...

Monday 14 April 2003 4:04:19 am

I have now tested with all of the options within uri/host/index. I am not sure I got the regexp ones straight, but anyway, the error is still there. If I dont include demo data, I get to the admin login screen, and I can log in, but then nothing happens after I`ve sent the first request. In lack of better terms, I`d say it freezes. If I include demo data I can never get beyond the "done" button in the setup wizard. I still suspect the access settings as it seems to be redirecting into nothing, but I cant see where the references are wrong.

Tuesday 15 April 2003 12:51:41 am

4.3.1, but I am not root. Ack!

Wednesday 16 April 2003 8:18:50 pm

Remember that some configurations require restarting httpd in order for changes to take effect.