New installation help

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Hi there

I've just uploaded files to my server which is hosted by "easily" in the UK

www.sparkleimages.com

It is Apache/1.3.27 with MySQL - 3.23.58
Protocol version: 10
Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
PHP 4

I've modified the pixelpost.php files with the php database details and created the images and thumbnails folders and uploaded.

If I go to

http://www.sparkleimages.com/admin/install.php

It says:

The requested URL /admin/install.php was not found on this server.

I can open the above file from the remote server so they have uploaded correctly.

Any ideas on what to look for next?

Cheers

[GeoS]

Did you upload it into /public_html dir?? If not do it like that!!

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Thanks Geos, yes uploaded into the live directory, I tested a standard html page in the same directory and it works ok

[se.nsuo.us]

Two things come to mind

#1 admin folder is missing
#2 your host does not allow folders to be named admin

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Thanks

Admin folder is present and named admin, looks ok. I think it might be something to do with the Chmod to the images and thumbnails folder. I'm using dreamweaver to ftp and i can't work out how to check the chmod status

[Connie]

so try just to install a ftp program and use that instead
there are many good ftp programs for free
it is very easy to set chmods with these programs, mostly you rightclick on the folder and get the menu for "setting attributes" or "chmod"

no witchcraft ;=)

[Joe[y]]

if you're using dreamweaver 8 then you can chmod by riht clicking the files or folders in your file panel and selecting permissions.

if you have dreamweaver mx or any previous versions then my advice is to download www.smartftp.com - an easy to use ftp programme which ability to chmod.

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Thanks guys, fixed the chmod on images and thumbnails with an ftp prog as suggested. Still the same problem. They were 755 now 777

Any other ideas, still not working?

[Connie]

you set the CHMOD to 777 and you cannot upload?

please give us the info in the admin panel / general info

so we can check again

sometimes there are host restrictions that users are not allowed to set attributes to 777 etc...

so we must know the info...

[se.nsuo.us]

The poor guy cannot reach the admin panel, see http://www.sparkleimages.com/admin/

If you cannot sort this out today and if you can trust me with the server access PM me the server details and I will look into what happening

[Joe[y]]

bizarre thing is that although contents of includes and and templates etc seem to be there (not receiving any 404's) admin claims to not contain anything...

try uploading a static page (index.html or similar) to your admin folder. perhaps your host isn't allowing you to use a directory named admin for some reason.

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Big thanks to Se.nsuo.us who fixed it for me.

"As suspected the problem was with having a folder named admin

I renamed the folder to admin2 and now I am able to access it http://sparkleimages.com/admin2/install.php"

It is now working and i've posted a couple of images. Thanks again everyone who offered assistance

[se.nsuo.us]

this i a gotcha with some ISP/Hosts they do not allow you to have folders named admin in your domain. A similar gotcha is some hosts do not allow file named config.php to exist in your domain root.

Never got to know what is the reason though

[Joe[y]]

this i a gotcha with some ISP/Hosts they do not allow you to have folders named admin in your domain. A similar gotcha is some hosts do not allow file named config.php to exist in your domain root.

Never got to know what is the reason though

perhaps security precautions. obvious places a hacker may look for are admin and config.php - something like that maybe.