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Blank page on scan.php

Cameron, BJ -- on Jan. 5 2006

Hi,

I am a new user trying to install YACS on Apache, PHP Version 4.3.10, and MySQL 3.23.58.

I get through the first part of the installation but when I get to scan.php?confirmed=Look+for+software+extensions I get a blank page. Suggestions?

Thanks,

BJ

Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6940 posts	Edit · Delete on Jan. 6 2006 Have you checked the error log of the web daemon? The issue may be related to some PHP call that would be unsupported at your server. I would be interested in knowing which one...
BJ 4 posts	Edit · Delete inspired from Bernard on Jan. 6 2006 Dear Bernard, From the error log: PHP Warning: fopen(httpdocs_Rally_yacs_.cache): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /httpdocs/Rally/yacs/shared/global.php on line 1044 PHP Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /httpdocs/Rally/yacs/shared/global.php on line 1045 PHP Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /httpdocs/Rally/yacs/shared/global.php on line 1046 PHP Warning: render_skin(httpdocs_Rally_yacs_.cache): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /httpdocs/Rally/yacs/shared/global.php on line 1049 PHP Fatal error: render_skin(): Failed opening required 'httpdocs_Rally_yacs_.cache' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /httpdocs/Rally/yacs/shared/global.php on line 1049 It looks like it expects some .cache file to exist? Is something not getting created? I am not getting any permission errors that I know of... Thanks, BJ
BJ 4 posts	Edit · Delete on Jan. 6 2006 Dear Bernard, I fixed the problem by changing the permissions for /skins/skeleton/ Perhaps this needs to be checked on the initial setup page. Thanks for your help, BJ
Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6940 posts	Edit · Delete inspired from BJ on Jan. 7 2006 BJ: This is a very bright idea. Can you share your new setings please? I am currently updating the readme.txt file provided with the YACS archive to further expand on permissions settings, etc. And of course, if I knew what to look at, a test would be added to setup.php as well related to scan.php. Thank you very much for your feed-back
BJ 4 posts	Edit · Delete on Jan. 7 2006 Bernard: Since I am not the root user, I had to chmod 777 the /skins/skeleton/ directory to allow the .cache file to be created. Thanks, BJ
Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6940 posts	Edit · Delete inspired from BJ on Jan. 8 2006 BJ: For your information, YACS transforms template file template.php to fix relative path issues, and cache files to speed subsequent use of these files. Therefore the need to write .cache files in skin directories. I will definitely add something to the setup script. Also, maybe YACS sometimes could work even if it cannot cache files... Thank you for the tip.

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