dolphin install help

Hi all,

let me start saying that I'm really new to Dolphin,  open source, sites configuration.

I'm trying to install the free Dolphin 6.1.6 under Windows OS, Apache and MySQL.

I've installed previously both Apache and MySQL through WAMPSERVER and everythins seems to run smoothly.

Both Apache and MySQL work fine.

I also run the install on Dolphin and followed it step by step. Nothing to report there.

I've skipped the last step Permissions Reversal as per some threads I've saw in the dolphin forums saying that step wasn't needed under Windows OS.

When finalized the install process, after deleting the Install directory and when I try to access the site - in my case http://localhost:8090/dolphin I got the following:

\n"; } exit; } require_once( 'inc/header.inc.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC . 'design.inc.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC . 'admin.inc.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC . 'db.inc.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC . 'profiles.inc.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC . 'prof.inc.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC . 'members.inc.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC . 'news.inc.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC . 'utils.inc.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC . 'membership_levels.inc.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC . 'tags.inc.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_ROOT . "templates/tmpl_{$tmpl}/scripts/BxTemplVotingView.php" ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_CLASSES . 'BxDolArticles.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_CLASSES . 'BxDolClassifieds.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_CLASSES . 'BxDolEvents.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_CLASSES . 'BxDolBlogs.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_CLASSES . 'BxDolGroups.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_CLASSES . 'BxDolPageView.php' ); require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_CLASSES . 'BxDolSharedMedia.php' ); require( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_ROOT . "templates/base/scripts/BxBaseIndex.php" ); require( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_ROOT . "templates/tmpl_{$tmpl}/scripts/BxTemplIndex.php" ); check_logged(); $_page['name_index'] = 1; $_page['header'] = $site['title']; $_page['header_text'] = $site['title']; $_page['css_name'] = 'index.css'; $oIPV = new BxTemplIndexPageView(); $_ni = $_page['name_index']; $_page_cont[$_ni]['promo_code'] = getPromoCode(); $_page_cont[$_ni]['page_main_code'] = $oIPV -> getCode(); // add email to notify emails list if ( $_POST['subscribe'] && $_POST['subscribe_submit'] ) AddNotifyEmail($_POST['subscribe']); PageCode();

I would appreciat if someone could help me to fix the Dolphin installation.

Thx all

some times with windows you need to switch the slashes around   like my windows path looks like this in the inc/header.inc.php :

$site['url']               = "http://localhost/dol616/";

$dir['root']               = "C:/xampp/htdocs/dol616/";

also notice a little ways down the page in inc/header.inc.php  there is a port setting as well.

//check correct hostname
$aUrl = parse_url( $site['url'] );
if( isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) and $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != $aUrl['host'] and $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != $aUrl['host'] . ':80' )

change that to the port you are running dolphin on and see if that helps.

Hi Jay,

Sorry to bother you with such miserable questions, but where should I check the host name?

Thx

it is located in the  inc folder    inc/header.inc.php

It would appear that you probably don't have short open tags enable/compiled in php. Edit your php.ini file for short open tags = on. Then restart apache, and refresh the page.

You can check this link I posted a few weeks ago regarding short open tags maybe it will help:

http://www.dialme.com/articles/entry/How-To-Enable-Dolphin-Short-Open-Tags

Of course, a guy like me would say kill the Windows OS and instead run a linux server.  If your trying to run this as a test on your own computer before flipping it to a real server, then partition the hard drive on the PC your running this on, install Linux behind the partition and then run Apache, MySQL & php 5.2.6 and you'll have much better results.  Keep in mind that the vast majority of servers are Linux and you will find it much simpler to get help than the Windows OS server your currently running on.