Topic: SMF installation problem

[tmaleshafske]

Everyone,
I found an issue with the installation of SMF that can pose a potential problem. 
using the instructions located in the wiki it install with a URL of with just the domainname/forum
It should probably be installed with a URL of http://FQD/forum  to resolve any display issues.

FQD=fully qualified domain name i.e.  www.whatever.com

if you don't do this you have to adjust /opt/SMF/Settings.php
BEFORE:
########### Forum Info ##########
$mbname = 'Forum';              # The name of your forum.
$language = 'english';          # The default language file set for the forum.
$boardurl = 'http://maleshafske.com/forum';         # URL to your forum's folder. (without the trailing /!)
$webmaster_email = 'admin@maleshafske.com';             # Email address to send emails from. (like noreply@yourdomain.com.)

AFTER
########## Forum Info ##########
$mbname = 'Forum';              # The name of your forum.
$language = 'english';          # The default language file set for the forum.
$boardurl = 'http://www.maleshafske.com/forum';         # URL to your forum's folder. (without the trailing /!)
$webmaster_email = 'admin@maleshafske.com';             # Email address to send emails from. (like noreply@yourdomain.com.)


that fixes the primary link to get your forum.  Your page won't appear right and you'll be seeing basically a white page with links and blue lettering.  to fix that you have to change to settings under ADMIN

Click on the Admin link

Go to Theme settings and change the two theme urls to read properly

BEFORE
 Theme URLs and Configuration
This theme's name: SMF Default Theme - Core   
This theme's URL:http://maleshafske.com/forum/Themes/default
This theme's images URL:http://maleshafske.com/forum/Themes/default/images
This theme's directory: /opt/SMF/Themes/default


AFTER

 Theme URLs and Configuration
This theme's name: SMF Default Theme - Core   
This theme's URL:http://www.maleshafske.com/forum/Themes/default
This theme's images URL:http://www.maleshafske.com/forum/Themes/default/images
This theme's directory: /opt/SMF/Themes/default


On additional note this is probably a problem with my overall config file of the server.  I checked both the HOSTNAME file and the hosts file in /etc/ and they both show correctly.  So I haven't figured out why it installed this way. 

tmaleshafske

[stephen noble]

raise a bug, thanks, this is how problems are tracked and fixed

[tmaleshafske]

Posted the bug.  Odd though I didn't see an option for SMF under the bugzilla.  I just put it in as unknow.

Has anybody else had this issue?

[cactus]

Posted the bug.

Please post a link to the bug here for future reference.

[tmaleshafske]

Bug can be found at the following link  http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4173

[cactus]

Odd though I didn't see an option for SMF under the bugzilla.

See bug 4174.

[tmaleshafske]

Yeah saw it from the previous post.  Do you think this could be a config file issue on my server.  When I had loaded it on 8.0beta.  I didn't have an issues.

[cactus]

Yeah saw it from the previous post.  Do you think this could be a config file issue on my server.  When I had loaded it on 8.0beta.  I didn't have an issues.

Don't know are you sure both are the same version? AFAIK no contribs are build for SME Server 8 as it is still beta.

[tmaleshafske]

Don't know are you sure both are the same version? AFAIK no contribs are build for SME Server 8 as it is still beta.

S

What is AFAIK?

SME 8.0 is basically 7.3 except it is built on top of CENTOS 5.1 instead of CENTOS 4.6, but the functionality is the same.  The biggest difference I have seen is with supported hardware.  When I rolled back to 7.3 I had to take out my Gigabyte adapters -sigh- as there isn't driver support for them.

Yeah I know there is no packages built for 8.0  yet but you can install them from the contrib and they will work.  Just interesting that it loaded properly in the Beta version instead of the fully supported.

[cactus]

What is AFAIK?

As Far As I Know

SME 8.0 is basically 7.3 except it is built on top of CENTOS 5.1 instead of CENTOS 4.6, but the functionality is the same.  The biggest difference I have seen is with supported hardware.  When I rolled back to 7.3 I had to take out my Gigabyte adapters -sigh- as there isn't driver support for them.

And that is why it is not the same as SME Server 7.3 as there are a lot of improvements/differences between CentOS 4 and CentOS 5, but it still does not explain to my why contribs behave different, especially not as the name is generated by database entries.

What is the output of the following commands on SME Server 7 and SME Server 8?

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rpm -q smeserver-smf
db configuration get DomainName

[tmaleshafske]

And that is why it is not the same as SME Server 7.3 as there are a lot of improvements/differences between CentOS 4 and CentOS 5, but it still does not explain to my why contribs behave different, especially not as the name is generated by database entries.

What is the output of the following commands on SME Server 7 and SME Server 8?

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rpm -q smeserver-smf
db configuration get DomainName

Here is what it is from 7.3

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[root@males001 ~]# rpm -q smeserver-smf
smeserver-smf-1.1.4-1.el4.sme
[root@males001 ~]# db configuration get DomainName
maleshafske.com
[root@males001 ~]#

I'll have to reload 8.0 to find that out......If only I could get my vmware server working.  It refuses to load properly in 7.3 and can't access it at all.

Still doesn't explain the install issue with 7.3  it would be different if the local DNS would resolve to just the domain name instead of the FQD

[tmaleshafske]

I'll have to reload 8.0 to find that out......If only I could get my vmware server working.  It refuses to load properly in 7.3 and can't access it at all.

Still doesn't explain the install issue with 7.3  it would be different if the local DNS would resolve to just the domain name instead of the FQD

Got VMWARE working properly and loade 8.0

the output was exactly the same.

[cactus]

Got VMWARE working properly and loade 8.0

the output was exactly the same.

And what does the configuration file say in SME Server 8, is it the FQDN?