Installation page - Step 4 is blank

[phirex]

Installation seems to work fine untill step 3, but when i hit next to 4 - blank page.
when i go to the Homepage (where the installed hotaru should be) its blank too.
any ideas what have i done wrong?

[Nick]

Hi phirex, as more people try Hotaru, we're learning quickly that what works on our servers doesn't necessarily work on others, and it's going to take some time before we get enough feedback to know exactly what's causing these issues.

There is of course the chance that your server is just fine. Did you make an .htaccess file? If so, remove it for now. You can switch to friendly urls later. Let's just get you up and running first and then we can figure out if the .htaccess file is configured okay or not.

Cheers,
Nick.

[phirex]

Hi phirex, as more people try Hotaru, we're learning quickly that what works on our servers doesn't necessarily work on others, and it's going to take some time before we get enough feedback to know exactly what's causing these issues.

There is of course the chance that your server is just fine. Did you make an .htaccess file? If so, remove it for now. You can switch to friendly urls later. Let's just get you up and running first and then we can figure out if the .htaccess file is configured okay or not.

Cheers,
Nick.

Hi, .htaccess does not exist,
I know i'm using a free hosting service but i ran Pligg on it succesfully.

i will give you the link maybe you could determine the problem
http:/urlremoved.com/install/install.php?step=3

thanks alot for your kind help.

[Nick]

My luck isn't much better. I was able to install Hotaru, but am stuck at an incomplete front page.

http://hotarucms.byethost24.com/

I'll see what I can find out...

[Nick]

Hmm... in my case, I had just hadn't filled out the database details properly in the hotaru_settings.php file.

You can see the basic installation complete here: http://hotarucms.byethost24.com/

In the forums at byethost, there are some reports of blank pages and the moderators usually say it's due to a PHP error and ask you to put a .htaccess file in your root directory with this in it:


php_value display_errors onI've attached that file to this post. You might try it to see if you get any errors.

Also, for reference, my hotaru_settings.php file looks like this:


// Database details
define("DB_USER", 'b24_XXXXXXX'); // Add your own database details
define("DB_PASSWORD", 'XXXXXXXX');
define("DB_NAME", 'b24_XXXXXXX_hotaru');
define("DB_HOST", 'sqlXXX.byethost24.com'); // You probably won't need to change this

define("DB_PREFIX", 'hotaru_'); // Database prefix, e.g. "hotaru_"
define("DB_LANG", 'en'); // Database language, e.g. "en"

// Paths
define('BASEURL', "http://hotarucms.byethost24.com/"); // e.g. http://www.mysite.com/I haven't tested it beyond the installation phase, and to be honest with you, I'd be surprised if Hotaru functions perfectly on a free host because of the restrictions (http://byet.net/showthread.php?t=14940) apparently in place.

[JonH]

i will give you the link maybe you could determine the problem
http:/urlremoved.com/install/install.php?step=3

thanks alot for your kind help.

In case you do get it working phirex I removed your step 3 url so no one will reinstall your database again!

[carlo75]

Something curious,
I just try to install a fresh 686 Rev. of Hotaru on my notebook, and I've the same error of phirex
I've noticed that old firefly logo, in all steps installation, can't be loaded althought the path is correct...

then: step 4 installation blank page also for me on standard WAMP (only thing is a CPU 64 bit insted of 32 bit)

See attachement

Strange things happens: I don't understand this behaviour.
I'll investigate!

[carlo75]

My fault:

in hotaru_settings I've a typo on


BASEURL: http://localhost/HoratuCMS/

phirex is it your issue like that?

[elindbloom]

I had the initial issue when I ran it on WAMP. When I backed up and re-entered my login information I got an error for character usage on the password. Putting in a valid password corrected the issue. I'm not certain why it didn't find it initially.