From random at artificiallives.com Thu Oct 14 04:14:13 2004 From: random at artificiallives.com (Alan C.) Date: Thu Oct 14 04:14:33 2004 Subject: [PolarBlog] Good install of 1.10.. Message-ID: <416E3555.60503@artificiallives.com> Just wanted to send a note and say I upgraded from 1.0 to 1.10 successfully yesterday. Here is the general overview of the procedure I used: 1. Untarred software. 2. Edited included new config file manually (since there were several new variables) 3. Backed up current polarblog directory and dumped database. 4. Put directory in place, copied CSS files from old distribution to new. 5. Changed ownership of files, set perms. 6. Ran install.php. Things I noticed afterwards/learned: 1. Comments didn't appear up front... figured out that this was because I was being dumb and when I edited the config file I forgot to remove the dist from the end of the file name :^). 2. Since I symlink into the polarblog directory from the root of my server I had to add a link for the header.php file that didn't exist before. 3. My comments were not offset correctly. Went back through config file and figured out that I skipped the variable to change the offset for the comments. Fixed it. I would say the process took about half an hour from start to finish. The longest part was editing the config file. Tomorrow I'm probably going to try to turn on smtp notifications and get my spell checking in place. A couple things I have for the suggestions list: 1. I Have now had the same entry added multiple times due to page refreshes, etc.. (we discussed this in email before the mailing list was online). It would be nice to have some sort of tag/checksum calculated on the entries so you don't add a duplicate entry to the server.. or maybe some type of time stamp check on the last added entry so that you don't end up posting two entries in say less than 2 minutes or something.. that would also do it (or maybe it asks for confirmation if someone has posted an entry in the last couple of minutes). 2. Being able to remove the check spelling button when not in use would be handy. 3. Being able to have a "preview" would be nice before posting. This is one feature I miss from PWL since I'm one of those people who likes to check my formatting before I do a final post. Thanks for all the hard work Kevin! You are the man! -Alan http://www.artificiallives.com From polarblog at prolingua.ch Mon Oct 18 09:42:07 2004 From: polarblog at prolingua.ch (Chris) Date: Mon Oct 18 09:42:16 2004 Subject: [PolarBlog] new database Message-ID: Hi When setting up a new polarblog with a new msql database I get the error message: DB Error: No Database Selected In the docs I can't find the information, whether I have to create the table within the target database before I run install.php or the submitting process of your install.php does create the table. And if I have to create the table in advnace: how many fields are requiered? Thanx for help :-) Chris From kevinp at polarlava.com Mon Oct 18 11:45:55 2004 From: kevinp at polarlava.com (Kevin L. Papendick) Date: Mon Oct 18 11:45:57 2004 Subject: [PolarBlog] new database In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1098114355.4173e533c86a8@nj1.fxsonet.com> Chris, Based on the error you are reporting, I'm assuming you get this as soon as you run the install.php script. If that is the case, check the database configuration settings in config/config.php. Specifically, check that you have properly configured the following: DB_HOST DB_NAME DB_USER DB_PASSWD The error you are reporting would indicate to me that PolarBlog doesn't know what the DB_NAME is supposed to be. The installation script should create all of the tables for you. You don't need to manually do anything on your database. If you are still having problems let me know more specifically what you were doing, and what error(s) you get. Also, what versions of PHP and MySQL you are using. Kevin L. Papendick www.polarlava.com Quoting Chris : > Hi > > When setting up a new polarblog with a new msql database > I get the error message: > > DB Error: No Database Selected > > In the docs I can't find the information, > whether I have to create the table within the target database > before I run install.php > or the submitting process of your install.php does create the table. > > And if I have to create the table in advnace: > how many fields are requiered? > > Thanx for help > :-) > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > Polarblog mailing list > Polarblog@polarlava.com > http://mail.polarlava.com/mailman/listinfo/polarblog_polarlava.com > -- Kevin L. Papendick www.polarlava.com From polarblog at prolingua.ch Tue Oct 19 04:03:31 2004 From: polarblog at prolingua.ch (Chris) Date: Tue Oct 19 04:03:59 2004 Subject: [PolarBlog] new database In-Reply-To: <1098114355.4173e533c86a8@nj1.fxsonet.com> References: <1098114355.4173e533c86a8@nj1.fxsonet.com> Message-ID: Thanx Kevin for your reply. At 11:45 -0400 18.10.2004, Kevin L. Papendick wrote: >If you are still having problems let me know more specifically what you were >doing, and what error(s) you get. I made a silly mistake: missed to set up the path to the /tmp directory. After completing the path, the setup finished successfully. But I still think, it would be a help to tell the reader of the docs that the setup process takes care of the table creation and that only the msql database has to be ready before starting the installation process. Thank you for your inspiring work you created with this blog! You did and you do a wonderfull job :-) Chris