Can't view log in page!

[simplyequine]

Hi all

I've just installed coppermine, and it says it was successful It then took me to the page where yo have to click on a link which says 'let's continue'.

This is supposed to redirect me to login.php, and the page loads but nothing shows up. Can anyone help?

The url is www.simplyequine.co.uk/coppermine/login.php

I have deleted the install.php to see if that was the problem but no joy.

Hope someone can help!

Thanks

[simplyequine]

Oh and I just followed the tutorial on setting the debug_mode but it won't post the error still 

[Nibbler]

The server is probably configured to hide errors. Make sure you uploaded all the files.

[simplyequine]

Hi

I am trying to upload all my files again and have noticed my ftp program won't upload some of the languages (like persion, polish,russian etc) . Would this affect it at all even though the only language I'm going to use is English!

Thanks

[Joachim Müller]

You can savely skip all languages but English. However, I suggest finding out why your FTP app appears to be "stubborn". Check the options of that app and "tell" it to stop butting in - it is suppossed to upload all files no matter what.

[uid]

Hi !
I have recently similar problem and solves it. It could be the same as mine.

I have upload Coppermine. I have configured it. Everything was ok, until redirecting to login page ...
And then I just saw "Fatal Error" 

After looking a while at source code, I found how to activate debug_mode ...
... set in the database cpg149_config.debug_mode to 1.

Then I saw that Coppermine try to access to table firstname.lastname.cpg149_*
According to my ISP, my database name is firstname.lastname, but in fact it is firstname_lastname !
The strange thing is that Coppermine seems to create correctly his tables, but cannot access it !

So I modify the file include/config.inc.php to indicate the correct database name.
I could also delete the file include/install.lock, and configure again with the page install.php
And now it works 

Wish it helps, and developpers correct this little "bug" to not create tables if it cannot access.
I have told my ISP that database name is not exact.

[Joachim Müller]

Thanks for sharing your solution, but it probably is not related at all. Database names mustn't contain dots! Coppermine doesn't create databases, but only tables.

[uid]

Yes, it is maybe not related at all.
It seems that simplyequine has already solved his problem, because his login page works.
But I think there is a little problem in Coppermine.

You are right, database names mustn't contain dots,
I didn't know that  ...
... in the install.php I did set the database name with dots !
The strange things is that Coppermine has created correctly tables and told me installation is successful !
But when redirecting to login page, I got Fatal Error, because Coppermine could not access to the
tables he created !

I know I have misconfigured Coppermine  , but I think Coppermine shouldn't tell that installation is successful if it is not !

I think that there will be other guy like me, doing this mistake because not everybody knows that database name mustn't contain dots.
My isp (free telecom) just says that the database provided is named like my login.
My login is in the form firstname.lastname, so I concluded that database name is also firstname.lastname

That's all

[Joachim Müller]

The installer is scheduled for reviewing: we're going to add some checks that filter out user errors like yours, making the installer more fool-proof. However, it's not an actual bug imo, as it's the user who made the error, specifying a database name that doesn't (and can't exist). It's pretty hard to make the installer newbie-proof, as you'd have to check against all kinds of mistakes newbies could make. Bottom line: yes, the installer is going to be reviewed for future coppermine versions. However, users will still have to read the manual that comes with coppermine - no matter how hard we will try to improve the installer.