Admin is okay, but where is the actual web-site?

Sunday 29 January 2006 10:32:27 am

Hi,

I'm attempting to evaluate eZ publish. I've installed 3.7.3 on XP. I can login to admin, register users, receive email, etc. However, despite reading the documentation, I cannot find the actual web-site itself!

I found one reference that indicated that it should be here:
http://www.example.com/path/index.php/plain
but I simply receive the login screen when referencing that location.

When I add:
RequireUserLogin=false
to site.ini.append.php
I am dropped into the default admin screen for an anonymous user.

Since the setup tool would only timed out when I used it, I installed manually. This was simple enough, but I can't help thinking that the documentation has missed mentioning quite a few things.

Sunday 29 January 2006 11:08:38 am

> what siteaccess did you give the site when you installed it?

It will have the defaults supplied with the download, since I've not changed anything. The download I used is ezpublish-3.7.3.tar.gz from here:
http://ez.no/download/ez_publish

> look at the folders in settings/siteaccess; the folder names within give you the site
> accesses you installed. If the folder is plain then it would be http://<your domain>/index.php/plain

The only folder in that location is /admin - as supplied in the download.

Monday 30 January 2006 5:37:05 am

No problems with the install, apart from being unable to use the setup tool - as I mentioned, I had to install manually, but that was just the usual provision of db info in config file, etc.

I debugged the setup tool scripts before bed last night, and was surprised by the basic errors in there. It's easy to see why folk are having problems. For a start it attempts to open the db with root/<no pass> - it uses site.ini. There are a bunch of missing files also. Things then get a bit more technical, but nothing that should not be picked up with basic testing.

Reading between the lines, I'm starting to presume that the "demo" sites are downloaded by the setup tool and not provided as part of the install download - the sites are not in the download, as can easily be confirmed. Since the manual installation instructions don't include instructions on what to do, I, and I presume everyone else, is stuck at this point.