Topic: help required installing xoops to ibay please

[stiperstones]

Hi all

I have follwed this howto to step 3 but are unsure how to complete step 4

any help would be much appreciated from the group




http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/How%20to%20install%20Xoops


Installing xoops on SME 6 is very simple.

1. Create a mysql user with the access rights to create,modify, and delete mysql dbases. The best tool to do this
with is phpmyadmin (see Darrell May's contrib area).


2. Create an Ibay to house xoops, make it internet readable, set the group to everyone, and enable dynamic content.


3. Delete the index.html file from your xoops/html ibay dir.


3. Download the latest xoops tarball and expand in your xoops/html ibay dir.


4. Run a chmod -R 775 * and chown -R admin:shared * on the contents of the xoops/html dir from the shell


5. Open a web browser and surf to your xoops ibay and follow the xoops install wizard.


The entire process should take less than 30min.


Greg Zartman



This is were i have installed xoops-2.0.6.tgz

/home/e-smith/files/ibays/xoops/html

I have ftp'd to the ibay and had a look round all seems to be in order

Thanks in advance

[Anonymous]

4. Run a chmod -R 775 * and chown -R admin:shared * on the contents of the xoops/html dir from the shell

Open a command line on the server or using
putty.exe on windows
Login as root
Enter password

cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/xoops/html

chmod -R 775 * <<< That little blob is an asterisk
chown -R admin:shared *  <<< Here to, is asterisk

http://"server-name"/xoops

Follow the screens and when all indicators are green
it will be installed.....then

http://"server-name"/xoops

Should work now.

[crazybob]

I am not sure where I went wrong, but I installed the latest version of xoops in an ibay and it wound up a little deeper than I expected. It is in the ibay html/xoops/html folder. I expanded it originally with tar -xvzf xoops-2.0.9.2.tar.gz.
I am still kind of a noob. Did I use the tar command wrong, or what? I can get to xoops, but not the way I had expected. Any way to correct this? I have not done much with it, so blowing it away and starting over is not a big deal.

Thanks

Bob