[Solved: dom.so] Installation / Error 404

[Surendil]

Hello! Sorry for my English, please! *confused*

I get an error during installation. When I copied all the files to my site and set proper permissions with chmod, I've tried to go to my site. Script redirected me to /admin/install.php, but I get an 404 error. When I watched logs of my server, I found this:

[Sun Nov 28 01:45:01 2010] [error] [client 188.120.225.89]
File does not exist: /home/surendil/data/www/188.120.225.89

I'm not good in PHP and configuring servers, so could you help me, please?

[yojoe]

Make sure you uploaded all files correctly.
The best method is to upload archive, and unpack it directly on the server.

You could turn on GS debugging (in gsconfig.php) and look inside log file (data/others) what is exact problem, because log entry you showed doesn't say anything useful about missing file.

[Surendil]

yojoe, I've unpacked archive directly on the server, as you advised me. Also I've enabled debugging and I get the following:

[28-Nov-2010 13:08:40] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: SITEURL in /home/surendil/data/www/surendil.ru/admin/inc/common.php on line 97
[28-Nov-2010 05:08:41] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function dom_import_simplexml() in /home/surendil/data/www/surendil.ru/admin/inc/basic.php on line 149

My PHP version is 5.2.14, SimpleXML (Rev. 299016) is enabled.
What should I do now?

[yojoe]

I've got a strange feeling that even if your php version is 5.x, server still uses 4.x.
Otherwise you shouldn't get second error.
Launch phpinfo function and see if I'm right. If yes, force php 5 to work using mod rewrite.

Make sure there are no rewrite rules already working for your domain.

[Surendil]

I watched 5.x version in phpinfo()
But I'm not sure of mod rewrite, now I'll try to learn what is it and I'll try to force PHP work using it :-) Thank you very much for your advices!

Edit: If the list of loaded modules in apache2handler contains mod_rewrite, that PHP uses it, am I right? If yes, I don't know what should I do now :-) You may look configuration of my server at http://surendil.ru/phpinfo.php

[yojoe]

You have two choices depending on method of php is running

Code:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler cgi-php5 .php

or

Code:

AddHandler php5-fastcgi php
Action php5-fastcgi /fcgi/php5
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 php

The code has to be inserted at the beginning of .htaccess file, staying in root of your website's directory

Be carfeul as GS "creates" its own .htaccess, thus you might have to edit it and and one of the above rules inside it, after GS installs itself.

[Surendil]

I don't know, what method of PHP is running, so I tried both. In first case I get source code of script; in second -- my browser tries to download entire .php file :-)

I'm so sorry for my stupid questions, but I really liked GetSimple and I'd like to use it to build my own website ^^

[yojoe]

I;m running out of ideas.

Try with

Code:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html .htm

This should set php5 to handle php files, and default php engine for html files

Or use only first line

Code:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

I can't come up with more solutions, because I don't know anything about your hosting and its config.
Maybe php5 is set as default, maybe not. Apache might as well be badly configured, and so on.


Try with a different CMS which requires simple xml and php5 to work.
This may shred some light on the problem.

[Surendil]

Thank you for your help, I can't express my gratitude for your support and help :-) Thanks a lot again!

But the problem isn't solved. I tried to exec my own script which uses SimpleXML and I get the same error. No I'll try to reinstall and reconfigure both PHP and Apache myself ^^

I'll tell you if this will work :-)

[Surendil]

Yeah! dom.so wasn't installed :-)

[ccagle8]

what does the mod dom.so do?

[Surendil]

I can be mistaken, but I think dom.so is just a runtime library, which implements DOM (DOM PHP in PHP4) extension. Following documentation, it is compiled and built in by default, but it was disabled in my web-server configuration, so the dom_import_simplexml() function (which is a part of DOM) was not available.