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Vanilla Installation - error


Posted on Aug 23, 2009 by Massive Camel

Hi. I am trying out your Vanilla as a framework. I followed along with your installation instructions from your Wiki here and I got an error.

I cannot tell what the error is though because it is partially blocked.

I will admit that I did every step per your instructions except one and this may be what is causing my error.

You said we needed to CHMOD 777 the cache folder. I am new to servers and whatnot, what little I know is self-taught. In general when people say to CHMOD something a particular way it is for people who are having a website hosted by a third-party.

How do I do this CHMOD 777 when I am hosting my own server via XAMPP on Vista SP2?

Attached is a screenshot of my final result, with the error at top right of the screen.

Although the screenshot shows two plug-ins enabled (Sociable and GD Star Rating) I did deactivate them and still have the error.

By the way, just so you know -- at the very bottom of your Wiki installation instructions you give a link to see what the final result should look like. That link is broken.

Also, I do understand this is an alpha version and in general you are not supposed to report bugs but well, here I am =)

Hope you will help, thanks.

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Comment #1

Posted on Aug 23, 2009 by Massive Camel

I tried Googling, well Bing actually =) an answer for this. The closest I could find was in regards to CHMOD'ing a plugin folder. I followed along and did what was suggested in the first post (see link below)

http://groups.google.com/group/flutter-support/browse_thread/thread/bd80fdb1b9cad98d?pli=1

This is what I typed:

attrib -r +s c:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\vanilla\cache

The command window accepted my command and put me back at the command prompt again (no errors).

After I entered that command I tried refreshing the blog page, even using F5 and the error remains.

Whether or not that command actually CHMOD'd my cache folder I have no clue and don't know how to check those types of permissions.

I also tried what he suggested in his second post at the same link above, about removing the cache folder, creating a new one, replacing the inner files and refrehing the blog page. That didn't work for me either.

Comment #2

Posted on Aug 23, 2009 by Massive Camel

I also tried to change the CHMOD to 777 via FileZilla and I get this error message:

504 Command not implemented for that parameter

Search on Bing or Google doesn't turn up any answers on how to get around it. The closest I can get to an explanation as to what the error means is:

"SITE CHMOD is not supported by your FTP server. Contact the adminstrator of your FTP server."

But wouldn't I BE the administrator? lol This is my home server =)

Any idea on what I need to do?

Thanks again.

Comment #3

Posted on Aug 23, 2009 by Happy Ox

Hi there, MAK.

Firstly, a new and very revised version of Vanilla is soon to hit the streets, so I would advise you to not get too far down the track before that...

Now, as to the full error, you will be able to see it if you do a view-source of the page, and search for "strtolower", for example. Seeing the full error would help.

Other than that, I would likely suggest that the CHMOD 777 thing is not your problem. I say that because if you can see that it is successfully writing a file to your cache directory, it's doing what it should!

So... I'd be better positioned to help you if I had the full error message, and perhaps the contents of the file in which the error occurs, if possible.

Cheers,

-Alister

PS. Quite seriously, the new version of Vanilla is streets ahead of this one, tho, and I don't want you killing yourself with this one when the new one is so different!

Comment #4

Posted on Aug 23, 2009 by Massive Camel

Okay understood but any idea about the CHMOD thing? I mean I keep getting stopped in my tracks, the 504 error. Any idea how to circumvent it, get around the error msg so that I can complete the CHMOD? To achieve it succesfully?

And are you saying that since I had files to copy over in the cache that it is working w/o the CHMOD, that the cache folder was empty originally on install? I never looked to be honest. (okay - just unzipped Vanilla again and saw the cache folder only had one file in it to begin with.)

(paused to take screenshots)

Okay Here are two screenshots, the one is almost the entire source view, shows the error occurred twice actually, and the second one is just an ampersand error you may have seen in the screenshot I gave in the original post.

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Posted on Aug 23, 2009 by Massive Camel

Sorry, forgot you asked for the actual file with the error, if I am not mistaken this is the one you requested.

Anyhow, even though you mentioned a newer version of Vanilla coming soon (very soon I hope), any chance you can tell me what to edit NOW in the version I have so I can continue to do some work anyways?

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Posted on Aug 23, 2009 by Massive Camel

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Comment #7

Posted on Aug 23, 2009 by Massive Camel

Playing around with this a bit, seems that anytime I put something into the "Primary Sidebar" widget box, that error occurs. If I remove items from it, it goes away.

EDIT: Same for "Secondary Sidebar"

Comment #8

Posted on Oct 20, 2009 by Grumpy Dog

Hello Alister,

I am very interested in the upcoming beta version of Vanilla. Any clues on "when" that will be coming out?

Thanks, Arthur

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