Re: [be] bibledit-web-0.2

[Teus Benschop]

Everything seems to have been going right until the point where it says:

Error: Smarty compile directory is not writeable

Smarty is used for displaying web pages. Since there is an error in it,
it won't display web pages. It only gives the blank pages you have seen.

What is the the operating system you try to install Bibledit-Web on?

Teus

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 15:21 -0400, Kim Blewett wrote:
> I've just tried installing BE-web, per instructions at bibledit.org
> (google project). In some places I had to guess what to do, but
> everything did seem to go according to the directions (in blue), up
> until the fourth step below (green), from
> http://bibledit.org/demo/help/001ubuntu1004server.php.
> 
>         sudo make install
> Yes. I got a message(be-web.txt) attached, saying my installation
> prefix is '/usr' and my Web server document root is '/var/www'. 
>         Test the web server. Open the site in the browser. It should
>         say something like
>         It works!
> This did seem to work. I opened file:///var/www/index.html came up
> with this message. Typing "localhost" as a browser address gives me
> the same message. 
>         Setup Bibledit-Web. Open the setup url in the browser. If the
>         site is "site.com", then this will be something like:
>         http://site.org/bibledit/setup.php
>         
>         
> Yes. I tried this, and discovered that I had missed installing php, so
> I did install php, then when I typed "localhost/bibledit/setup.php"
> something ran, giving me this message:
>                 Site setup
>                 Please scroll down to see all messages
>                 Ok: Web server username www-data
>                 Ok: Files are writeable
>                 Error: Smarty compile directory is not writeable
>                 
>                 
>         Bibledit-Web should now be ready, and accessible through:
>         http://site.org/bibledit
>         
> from here on it's not working. I can't figure out how to access
> bibledit. http://localhost/bibledit gives me a blank page.
> file:///var/web/bibledit gives me a directory of what's in that
> folder, but when I select one of those php files I get "what program
> do you want to use to run this file".
> http://localhost/bibledit/index.php also gives me a blank page, though
> I can see "index.php" in /var/web/bibledit/.
> 
> Obviously I'm missing something... PHP does seem to run--it works with
> that one file 'setup.php'. Is "http://localhost"; a different location
> from "file:///var/web"? If so, where is it? 
> 
> The Bibledit instructions are not too clear in some places. I guess I
> sort of mixed up the instructions from these three pages:
> http://bibledit.org/demo/help/installation.php --this page has links
> for v 0.1 on different Ubuntus, but it sent me to 
> http://sites.google.com/site/bibledit/community/development to get v
> 0.2 from the repository. Then I did make etc., through sudo make
> install, and finally I remembered to look at
> http://bibledit.org/demo/help/001ubuntu1004server.php, which mentioned
> installing these packages, which I did.
>     phpmyadmin php5-cli git-core curl
> 
> I redid ./configure, make, sudo make install after this (told php to
> work with mysql because I'd installed it per a note on 
> http://bibledit.org/demo/help/installation.php. I googled to figure
> out how to install mysql; I ended up installing these pkgs:
>         libgtk2.0-dev git-core rcs curl libsqlite3-dev libenchant-dev
> libgtkhtml3.14-dev libgtksourceview2.0-dev libwebkit-dev texlive-xetex
> and
>         php5-mysql mysql-server phpmyadmin php5-cli git-core curl
> 
> Help or advice would be welcome.
> Thanks, Kim
>         
> On 09/25/2010 01:56 PM, Teus Benschop wrote: 
> > Today Bibledit-Web 0.2 was released.
> > 
> > Bibledit is a Bible editor.
> > It is available at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bibledit or
> > http://bibledit.org.
> > 
> > It has improvements to sending and receiving notes
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >