Problems installing
Submitted by antiol on Sat, 11/27/2004 - 17:39.
AdvoKit Development
I trying to install Advokit, and I run into difficulties on Step 4. Everything stops on a page with the text:
AdvoKit Installation - Step 4 PHP Info
Create tables
After this, nothing happens.
Can someone help me solve it?
I had this problem, but it
Submitted by strudeau on Mon, 01/30/2006 - 12:14.
I had this problem, but it wasn't a timeout issue -- it was the write permissions weren't set up correctly on advokit-installer-*/install ... chmod 777 on that (and then remember to remove the whole darn thing when you're done) fixes it...
I have the same problem
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/14/2005 - 03:10.
I have the same problem. I even changed my php.ini setting to allow scripts to run for 200 seconds and it still timed out.
Me too
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/06/2005 - 11:58.
I am stopped by exactly the same problem too. It happens on the newest 0.9.9 release and I also saw it on the previous release too.
By the way, the install docs should mention that Advokit requires PHP4 and does not work with PHP5.
The installer runs fine on PHP5
Submitted by patdunlavey on Tue, 03/28/2006 - 15:09.
The problems described are most likely due to either file or directory permission issues, or php timeout issues.
How then can you use this as
Submitted by ktunstall on Sun, 03/26/2006 - 13:31.
How then can you use this as server companies are running php 5?
Increase Script Timeout settings
I realize this forum is not used often, but since I ran across this exact problem while installing advokit myself, I thought I would post this info here for the next person who finds this before they search the Advokit developers mailing list archive: http://lists.voter2voter.org/listinfo.cgi/advokit-dev-voter2voter.org
The limitation for me was two fold:
1. I needed to increase my max_execution_time= in php.ini. I upped it to 300 in order to give my slow machine enough time to finish. At 30 seconds, it would time out long before fnishing the script.
2. I use Firefox as my browser and needed to go to about:config and increase my dom.max_script_runtime. I also increased all my http timeout settings. Not sure if these steps were needed, becuase I was trying several things at once to try and fix it.
For what it is worth I am running:
Advokit 0.9.9
WinXP
Apache 2.054
PHP 4.4.0
MySQL 4.1.12a-nt
Firefox Browser 1.0.4