Install Problem

[emma-duerre]

I'm trying to install Coppermine, but I receive te following message- While executing query "SELECT * FROM skandar_config" on 0

mySQL error: Table 'skandar_gallery.skandar_config' doesn't exist

What's happening, and what should I do?
Thanks in advance!

[emma-duerre]

Anyone?

[eruss]

Anyone?

Make sure you ran install.php:
http://your_server/coppermine_dir/install.php

If you did, re-read to docs to make sure you didn't miss a step:
http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htm#installation

[emma-duerre]

Thank you! But the error pops up when I try to go to the install page. It was working before, it was just writing another error, and when I tried to go back to it, it had that error.

[eruss]

Thank you! But the error pops up when I try to go to the install page. It was working before, it was just writing another error, and when I tried to go back to it, it had that error.

Is the database set up with the database user set to have proper permission to create?

[Sami]

error is clear in mysql can't find the config table so
- check your tabels of databse  with phpmyadmin
- check your table pre fix (in include/config.inc.php & also in database)

[emma-duerre]

OK, and how do I make a table?  Sorry, I'm really new to this.

[Sami]

you do not need to create a table you need to check them if they are already there or not !
if you have phpmyadmin on your hosting control panel use that to browse your databse  and if you don't have it there then you need to download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin and install it on your server

[emma-duerre]

No, I have that, there's just no table there. So, how do I make one? I'm looking for the answer on the Coppermine help page things, but just in case..

[Stramm]

Use phpmyadmin to create a database or ask your host. Read the phpmyadmin docs if do not know how to create a database. Then run coppermine install.php and enter the database name you've just created. For more info on how to install coppermine read the coppermine docs http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htm

[Joachim Müller]

Erm, guys: coppermine install is going to create the needed tables. What coppermine installer doesn't do is creating a database. So if a database is there and the details about it have correctly been transfered into the corresponding fields of the installer screen, then the only show-stopper I could possibly think of is the remark eruss has made: the database user may not have the needed mysql permissions to perform the CREATE command. To test this, you (emma-duerre) may well try to create a table in phpMyAdmin. If this fails, we "know" the culprit. If it works to create a table in phpMyAdmin, we're back to square one. As the phpMyAdmin script that apparently has been set up by Emma's webhost may run under another user than the user Emma tried to run the coppermine installer with. But let's take one step at a time: do as suggested, trying to create a table using phpMyAdmin. Observe if there are eny error messages. Then report back.

[emma-duerre]

OK, I fixed all that, but now it just shows a blank screen.

[eruss]

OK, I fixed all that, but now it just shows a blank screen.

Try to provide more information.  When does it show a blank screen?  In phpMyAdmin?  When you go to install.php?  The next step?  Maybe a link?

[emma-duerre]

When I go to install, it shows a 404 error, but if I go here- http://skandar.fan-sites.org/gallery/ and click gallery, it shows a blank screen, and I don't understand why.

[eruss]

When I go to install, it shows a 404 error, but if I go here- http://skandar.fan-sites.org/gallery/ and click gallery, it shows a blank screen, and I don't understand why.

It looks like you put the gallery here:
http://skandar.fan-sites.org/gallery/gallery/

Try re-uploading to:
http://skandar.fan-sites.org/gallery/

[emma-duerre]

OK, new question, sprung from the old question. Why won't it let me delete any folders? It deletes separate files fine, but no folders. I'm talking about my FTP, by the way. I tried to re-upload, and I'm trying to delete some files, but it won't let me. Why?

[emma-duerre]

Never mind! I fixed it all! Everythin's nice and ready to go! Thanks fer all yer help!