Installation Error - Step 6
Submitted by rjl on Fri, 07/14/2006 - 17:55.
In step 6 of the installation I am getting this error
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Unable to copy /home/.beenie/thinklocally/thinklocally.net/advokit/images/rarrow.gif to /home/.beenie/thinklocally/thinklocally.net/advokit/images/rarrow.gif ! Cannot continue.
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It appears as if the file is trying to copy to the same file
The following code comes from the the install-6.php file
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# Next, images
if( ! $errflag )
{
$errflag = ! cp_r( $installsrc.DIRSEP."images", $webroot.DIRSEP."images", NULL );
}
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If I comment it out, I don't get the error which is nice, but am not sure where files are to be copied to and what files are to be copied
(note the same error happens for the next two uses of the cp_r() function, noted with
# help images
# css, js, and types
Any thoughts would be appreciated
Thanks
Randall
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Thoughts...
It looks like you have renamed your advokit-installer folder as "advokit" (/home/.beenie/thinklocally/thinklocally.net/advokit), and that you have chosen that same folder as the webroot for your advokit installation. So the installer is stupidly trying to install the webroot portion of the application over itself. I'd start over, with the installer called "advokit-installer" (/home/.beenie/thinklocally/thinklocally.net/advokit-installer), and then choose /home/.beenie/thinklocally/thinklocally.net/advokit as the webroot on step 5.
Actually, commenting out the error trapping may possibly have allowed you to get a working installation out of this, since the uncopied files are already where the installer thinks they should be. The only question is whether you would get an error when step 6 tries to create the index.php file obliterating the installer's index.php file! At best, you would get a working advokit and hose your advokit installer! Not the recommended route! I'd recommend starting from scratch, with your advokit-installer in a separate folder from your advokit webroot.
-Pat
p.s. Sorry for the delay in responding - I need to check the forums more often!