WEBINSTALL.PHP PROBLEM

[avyaban]

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to install the smf application through webinstall.php script, but I'm getting same error mesage each time and I can not proceed further..

Steps are like following;

First, I've uploaded webinstall.php under /httpdocs/forum


Then, I've verified my simplemachines.org forum account and select the additional languages such as English, Spanish, French, German, Turkish... and click licence aggrement and clicked "Continue"


In this page, I'm getting some warnings and notices but I'm ignoring them each time, I think they are not so important... So, I've entered the information exactly like below;


And then I'm receiving this error; "Sorry the FTP path you entered wasn't same place as this installer was uploaded to."



Please , waiting for help...

Thanks in advance...

[Illori]

Hi,

the webinstall does not work on all servers, please try the normal method of installing, Installing SMF

[CapadY]

Normaly the localhost is pointing to the rootdir, in your case "httpdocs".

your install path is filled as "httpdocs/forum"

Because the localhost is pointing to "httpdocs", your installpath is now pointing to "httpdocs/httpdocs/forum".

So, give it a try with only "/forum" in the install path.

[SlammedDime]

I derno about your hosting arrangements capady, but normally when I log into my FTP account on my host, I see a bunch of different directories, including my public folder, which I have to manually navigate to...

Code Select Expand

[16:41:30][~]$ ll
total 41152
lrwxrwxrwx  1 mattzuba mattzuba       34 Feb 23 23:08 access-logs -> /usr/local/apache/domlogs/mattzuba
-rw-r--r--  1 mattzuba mattzuba       28 Dec 21  2008 assp_deluxe_nolocal
drwxr-xr-x  2 mattzuba mattzuba     4096 Jun 22  2007 bin
-rw-r-----  1 mattzuba mattzuba        1 Jan 17  2009 cpbackup-exclude.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 mattzuba mattzuba        0 May 23  2008 dailyreport_off
drwxr-xr-x  5 mattzuba mattzuba     4096 Feb 23 23:15 domains
drwxr-x---  9 mattzuba mail         4096 Jan 24 22:54 etc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 mattzuba mattzuba      351 May 30  2008 FileBackup.sh
drwx------  2 mattzuba mattzuba     4096 Mar  2 06:11 logs
drwxrwx--- 19 mattzuba mattzuba     4096 Feb 10 12:38 mail
-rw-r--r--  1 mattzuba mattzuba 42020152 Mar  6 23:38 orig.tgz
drwxr-xr-x  8 mattzuba mattzuba     4096 May 23  2008 php
drwxr-xr-x  3 mattzuba mattzuba     4096 Nov 26  2008 public_ftp
drwxr-x---  6 mattzuba nobody       4096 Mar  5 18:50 public_html
drwxr-xr-x  5 mattzuba mattzuba     4096 May 24  2008 ruby
-rw-r--r--  1 mattzuba mattzuba        0 May 23  2008 s_imapstatus
-rwxr-xr-x  1 mattzuba mattzuba      537 May 30  2008 SQLBackup.sh
drwx------  4 mattzuba mattzuba     4096 May 23  2008 ssl
drwxr-xr-x  6 mattzuba mattzuba     4096 Feb 24 11:08 subdomains
drwxr-xr-x  5 mattzuba mattzuba     4096 Jun  9  2009 svn
drwxrwxrwx 26 mattzuba mattzuba     4096 Mar  7 01:03 tmp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 mattzuba mattzuba       11 Jul 30  2008 www -> public_html



so entering httpdocs/forum would be correct.  However he has filled in /httpdocs/forum (with a leading '/'), which might cause some problems.  Remove the leading '/' and try just 'httpdocs/forum'.  This is also evident by looking at the very first screenshot showing his FTP client.

Also, try to do the webinstall without logging in with your SMF credentials.  It's odd the webinstaller is throwing the undefined index errors after you've logged in though.  Checking the code, it looks like $_SESSION might be getting wiped out for some reason but I don't see where.  Can you link to a phpinfo file as well?
What is a phpinfo() file?