Topic: phpnuke

[Jeremy]

I'd like to install phpnuke on my site.

1) Is there a place I can get a phpnuke rpm?

2) Are there any good pages with instructions on how to set it up?

Thanks
Jeremy

[david]

no rpm (you don't need it), and http://www.phpnuke.org for instructions

[Noah]

I didn't install phpnuke, but I did install Geeklog (http://geeklog.newsgeeks.com) which is similar, and I have been very impressed with it.
Just follow Dan Brown's instructions for getting PHP and Mysql installed on e-smith. Grab the geeklog tarball. Untar and follow the installation instructions (there are installation instructions in the tarball).
Very easy.

Noah

[Jeremy]

I have installed the following, hopefully correctly:

apache-1.3.12-2.i386.rpm
mod_auth_external-2.1.2-5.i386.rpm

MySQL 3.22.32
MySQL-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm
MySQL-client-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm
MySQL-shared-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm
e-smith-mysql-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm

php-4.0.3pl1-4.i386.rpm
php-mysql-4.0.3pl1-4.i386.rpm
php-imap-4.0.3pl1-4.i386.rpm
e-smith-php4-0.2-2.noarch.rpm

And OpenSSH as per Charlie's instructions on www.e-smith.org

I then un-tarred the php into the /home/e-smith/files/primary dir and follwoed the rest of the phpnuke.org's instructions. The nuke sql worked fine and I edited the config.php. I boot up my web browser and now I can't seem to get any webpages from my site, not even the admin.php file. It seemed that Apache had crashed. Then I rebooted and noticed that Apache has failed to initialize.

One thing i did have difficulty doing was chmod'ing 666 all dirs and 777 all files, as requested in the install instructions for phpnuke, and i still haven't figured out have to chmod the dirs recursively. I ended up doing chmod -R 777 *.*
Is there an easier way to do this? What is your experience? Where can I find some better help?

TIA, Jeremy Van Veelen

[Tim]

To chmod 777 recursively everything in a specific subdirectory try :-

chmod 777
chmod 777 -R

And the job is done.

[Charlie Brady]

Tim wrote:

> To chmod 777 recursively everything in a specific subdirectory
> try :-
>
> chmod 777
> chmod 777 -R
>
> And the job is done.

It is, however, usually a bad idea to chmod 777 any file or directory, so be aware that you may be introducing a security or privacy risk, or exposing your server to a denial of service attack. I haven't looked at the internals of PHPNuke, and don't know why it specifies this configuration, but I would advise caution.

Regards

Charlie