Dizkus

Hello everyone. For starters let me say that I have only had my website for 2 weeks so I about as uneducated on databases and such as a person can get. This forum has been a huge help and I have already been able to solve several installation problems with help from the wonderful people who post here. Thank you.

The Problem:
After upload I could not get the install screen to come up, so I deleted my .htaccess file according to a post I read. It worked. I am now on step 6 create admin user and I got these 2 messages in a red box at the top of my screen:

Exit-Handler: DBUtil::getTableDefinition: neither the SQL parameter nor the pntable array contain the ADODB dictionary representation of table to create... Stacktrace: in [pn_exit] at line 62 in file /home/ifurbish/public_html/PostNuke/includes/pnobjlib/debug.php.
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Exit-Handler: DBUtil::createTable: neither the SQL parameter nor the pntable array contain the ADODB dictionary representation of table to change... Stacktrace: in [pn_exit] at line 62 in file /home/ifurbish/public_html/PostNuke/includes/pnobjlib/debug.php.

What on earth does that mean? How should I proceed? Please explain this as though you are speaking to an 8 year-old. I am learning as fast as I can but I have no computer "intuition" with this stuff yet.

Things you might need to know: Using C-Panel, MySQL version 5.0.45, I already made the database before installation

Thank You in Advance,
Carmen

Creating the admin user?
Mmmmm... seems that the pntables.php file of the Users module is unreachable or something like that... please, take a look to the permissions of the file /system/Users/pntables.php, and if it's ok (644) please post here your DataBase state.

How much tables were created by the installer?
which ones do you have on youtr database, post the list please.

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- Mateo T. -
Mis principios... son mis fines

Thank you for responding!!! I checked and the file permission is 0644 so that is fine. I think I understand the next part. I went into MyPHPadmin and click on the PostNuke database. It has 55 things in it. Here is what they are:
pn_admin_category
pn_admin_module
pn_banners
pn_bannersclient
pn_bannersfinish
pn_blocks
pn_block_placements
pn_block_positions
pn_categories_category
pn_categories_mapmeta
pn_categories_mapobj
pn_categories_registry
pn_counter
pn_ephem
pn_faqanswer
pn_feeds
pn_groups
pn_group_applications
pn_group_membership
pn_group_perms
pn_hooks
pn_message
pn_modules
pn_module_deps
pn_module_vars
pn_objectdata_attributes
pn_objectdata_log
pn_objectdata_meta
pn_pagelock
pn_pages
pn_pendingcontent
pn_quotes
pn_ratings
pn_ratingslog
pn_referer
pn_related
pn_reviews
pn_sc_anticracker
pn_sc_log_event
pn_search_result
pn_search_stat
pn_session_info
pn_stats_date
pn_stats_hour
pn_stats_month
pn_stats_week
pn_stories
pn_themes
pn_topics
pn_userblocks
pn_users
pn_users_temp
pn_user_data
pn_user_property
pn_workflows

Again thank you for your help! Now what?

Also the file it references public_html/PostNuke/includes/pnobjlib/debug.php has its permission set to 0644 as well. Don't know if you need to know that.

Well, seems that you're trying to make a 'complete' installation,
now try again, but choose the 'basic' installation, you can install more modules after get your site running... it's possible, that a ValueAddons have some problems, so, try the basic installation and tell us

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- Mateo T. -
Mis principios... son mis fines

I clicked the back button to go back to step 5 and selected basic installation. Now step 6 give me these errors:

Error! Index creation failed. (state, modules, 1, 1061 - Duplicate key name 'state') in [createIndex] at line 2501 in file /home/ifurbish/public_html/PostNuke/includes/pnobjlib/DBUtil.class.php.
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Error! Index creation failed. (mod_state, modules, 1, 1061 - Duplicate key name 'mod_state') in [createIndex] at line 2501 in file /home/ifurbish/public_html/PostNuke/includes/pnobjlib/DBUtil.class.php.
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Error! Index creation failed. (mod_var, module_vars, 1, 1061 - Duplicate key name 'mod_var') in [createIndex] at line 2501 in file /home/ifurbish/public_html/PostNuke/includes/pnobjlib/DBUtil.class.php.
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Error! Index creation failed. (smodule, hooks, 1, 1061 - Duplicate key name 'smodule') in [createIndex] at line 2501 in file /home/ifurbish/public_html/PostNuke/includes/pnobjlib/DBUtil.class.php.
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Error! Index creation failed. (smodule_tmodule, hooks, 1, 1061 - Duplicate key name 'smodule_tmodule') in [createIndex] at line 2501 in file /home/ifurbish/public_html/PostNuke/includes/pnobjlib/DBUtil.class.php.


I cannot thank you enough for helping me with this. My only other option would be to uninstall it an try a different program alltogether.

Carmen

Yo can't use the back button at that point of the installation process.
You have to truncate the database (or delete it) and start again.

Good luck

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- Mateo T. -
Mis principios... son mis fines

OH THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I deleted the database and did the install again with basic this time and now I am up and running! Thank you so much for your help!

Carmen