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Hi, I am very new to dolphin. like about an hour and I got to install this on my Windows VPS server.

All went fine. I didnt change the directory permissions yet as I am just testing, will do that later.

However all went through without errors but all i get is a bunch of hash on any page i load. whether it is the front page or even the admin page

here is a look

http://www.smashpro.com.au/dolphin

Can anyone advise what I did wrong

Dave

By viewing the source of the page i can see the PHP code which you should not. So it would seem that the windows server is not processing PHP scripts.

That appears to be a server configuration problem or PHP is not properly installed.

Deano

eFriendsRock.com

Hi and thanks for the message.

Unfortunately I already have 2 other sites under PHP running on this server. The PHP and MYSQL sections are running perfectly with those sites.

This one isnt for some reason

Dave

Apparently, everything didn't go fine.  The Dolphin installation script requires certain directories to be writable during the installation.  If you didn't do that, you may as well delete the installation and start over.  You don't have a .htaccess file in your sites root directory, and probably nowhere else. From what I can see, your entire installation is trashed.

Well. i dont know what you  mean but on the installtion of Dolphin i had no errors.

It told me all my permissions were correct.

Butit is not very straight forward on a Windows IIS6 install.

No erors. nothing.

I guess i will start frm scrathc again.

ont know hy this is any different from installing other PHP apps which are working fine on this server though

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/DolTech

Why thank you for that link. Its not like I havent read throguh it already.

If you can't provide some reasonable help. dont bother saying anything. Being newbies to Dolphin and the way it works. I dont think some reasonable help would be a big ask.

We already have 2 other PHP programs running on this server wthout any glitches.

Dolphin has been isntalled wthout any errors.

Yet it doesnt work. All I ask is for some help to get it running.

Charming, and you expect to get help being so rude do you..... Mmmm. Ok, moving swiftly on then.

in my experience of dolphin, it is different, hench more difficult to host if the server isnt set up properply, even if you have other PHP apps running, doesnt mean that dolphin will. When you install dolphin, and ive done it twice now, it asks you in the installation process to change the chmods of about twenty or more different files. if you havent done this, then it wont work properly anyway. I also seem to think, that running dolphin on windows can be a bit more tricky from reading around the forum here. So perhaps you may need to install it again and be a bit more patient, follow the instruction to the letter, as you cant skip things with a dolphin or it will cause you problems.

You need to read it again. You mentioned IIS6. Dolphin is not designed to run on IIS6. Dolphin makes extensive use of .htaccess files which IIS6 does not dupport. Dolphin is designed for the apache webserver.

Without apache i don't think you will get it running correctly and considering you already have 2 websites running on that server, installing apache now might not be a good idea.

He did provide you with reasonable help.  Dolphin can run on a Windows Server, however it still has to be set up as outlined in the trac link that houston gave you.

Now, if you were polite, I'd probably suggest that you partition the servers drive and install either a linux operating system and set yourself up to run that way... Or I might suggest you partition the drive and install a Windows system that will allow it to run without affecting the sites you currently have running.

But since you've been rude, I won't tell you those things.  Have fun with your install and when you learn some etiquette come back, then we'll help you.

re:"not installed.
\n"; if ( file_exists( "install/index.php" ) ) { echo "Please, wait. Redirecting you to installation form...

\n"; echo " location.href = 'install/index.php'; \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' ); requ..."...yadda yadda badda boom papa... and so on..

You need to set "short open tags" in your php.ini file.

I've had decent success with install on Windows but prefer LINUX. I think you will get less hassles. The 38 seconds Dolphin install was originally based on Windows. Here's the link:

http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Install_Dolphin_in_38_Seconds_or_Less_2008_06_13

It's been improved upon by BoonEx and few other peeps around here.

...sip...