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Problem installing on Ubuntu

Submitted by beemer on Wed, 05/03/2006 - 15:35.

I am attempting to install Advokit 0.9.9 on a pc running Ubuntu 5.10, on which I have installed

apache2 2.0.54-5ubuntu4
php5 5.0.5-2ubuntu1.2
MySQL 4.0.24-10ubuntu2.1

I cannot get past step 1!  When I attempt to connect to the db server using the install web page, I get the maddeningly vague error "Error!  Unable to access database server!"

Anyone know of issues with Ubuntu?

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OK, got to step 4

Submitted by beemer on Thu, 05/04/2006 - 05:29.

I had not set up MySQL completely (stupid mistake).

Now I'm getting the following error when I attempt to load the sample data:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1977 bytes) in /var/www/advokit-installer-0.9.9/install/Smarty_Compiler.class.php on line 402

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Sure sounds like not enough php memory

Submitted by patdunlavey on Tue, 05/09/2006 - 05:28.

This is adapted from here
Depending on your host, this can be done in a number of places with the most likely being php.ini or htaccess depending on your hosting situation.

Add for example:

  • memory_limit = 12M to your php.ini file (recommended, if you have access)
  • php_value memory_limit 12M to your .htaccess file

Let us know what, if anything, works!

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php.ini worked

Submitted by beemer on Wed, 05/17/2006 - 20:01.

But now I'm trying to set up some more instances in other Ubuntu instances inside VMWare (the machine I originally set up on is pretty creaky). I don't even get the error message on these systems. When I access http://localhost:3306 , I get a bin file that contains the error msg "Bad handshake".

Any suggestions?

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