Dizkus

I am a contractor to a company that is currently using Yahoo for several of their websites. We are working on a very hot project and MY part of the project, "community" (forums, groups, etc), is due By May 29 (this year!!) This project is somewhere between a proof of concent and a production implementation.
HAS ANYONE installed PN on Yahoo sucessfully?
I cannot change hosts, I am stuck with Yahoo for the short term. I have had database problems trying to install the latest PN. First it failed to connect, then when I tried to create the DB thru phpMyAdmin and then use the SQL file to create tables and insert records, it failed with errors because of duplicate key values (value = 102) in pn_module_vars...
thanks in advance! -Deb

I got it to work by editing the config.php as follows:

$pnconfig['dbhost'] = 'mysql';

Previously the value was 'localhost'

So, the install WILL work in Yahoo. By the way, I let the install create the tables and populate them. I still think there is something wrong with the provided SQL file, Phoenix-0.7.6.2.sql.

This raises a good point, always make sure you read the information provided by your host. MOST cases, localhost is going to be the right thing for the database server, but not always.

but the most important problem with yahoo hosting is that
you can not use .htaccess so rewrite is not working.

Get a real host then ;)

WOW, just entering MySQL instead of localhost did the trick. AMAZING!! I did made the database through MyPHPAdmin though, will test on another installation whether the PostNuke installation script can make the database also, when supplied with the right information.

[this might be a bit off topic, hope I am forgiven as a newbie newbie]

Also was wondering about the .htaccess files, but now I understand from the posting above that this is a typical Yahoo problem, anybody knows which host does not have that issue?

I've been very happy with DreamHost

But you had best make two lists: what you need and what you want. Then look around and compare. Different hosts meet different needs.

Peter



edited by: pheski, Sep 25, 2007 - 05:53 PM

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