OK,
I've taken a break from trying to get this thing to work. I give.
I really like Dolphin's look and feel from the demos and this forum, but if it can't be installed in a reasonable time, well, life's too short as it is.
The symptoms are: The install runs to completion. When I navigate to the site from ANY browser, I get a mySQL query error. I've reinstalled three times, dropping the DB each time and I've decided that if it's this difficult to install, it's going to be problematic to support.
FWIW, I was trying
to get it up and running on a VPS hosted by VPSlink. It's a "Link 3"
running one of their out of the box LAMP stacks based on Fedora Core
9. I'd had some issues in getting the mySQL database itself behaving,
but I'm pretty sure that I'm past the newbie/cockpit errors and that
I'm configuring it correctly. One theory that I'd come up with based
on some other discussion boards was that there was a mismatch between
the default character set for mySQL (Latin1) and what Dolphin is
looking for (utf8?). Changing the default didn't work, but it was a
beautiful theory.
I then scrubbed the install, and just for giggles installed Drupal just to see if I was capable of installing ANYTHING. That went pretty quick though it's really not what I want.
I guess there's an ecosystem of specialized hosting folks out there for a reason but if the requirements are that specialized, why don't the folks at Boonex publish the specialized requirements? There's nothing in the published list that's not on my stack, and the install directions certainly don't have a bunch of if/then/else sort of options. The mySQL setup is almost as minimal as you can get.
So, if anybody out there want's to help out, please reply to this post. I've gotten some good answers to previous issues, but this has just gotten to be a bit too little return for too much effort.
Regards,
Frank
