On trying to install Rogo 4.2 for the first time, we came across the following issues.
On going to /install/index.php, all we saw was two errors, 103 and 104, with no explanation. On looking in the code we saw that these were caused by the /qti/imports and /qti/exports directories not being writeable by the Apache user. These weren’t mentioned in the File System Permissions page on the wiki (https://suivarro.nottingham.ac.uk/trac/rogo/wiki/Permission), but are now.
Having made these writeable, the install page then displayed input boxes, but without any labels. We realised this (and the lack of text for the errors above) was probably caused by the language file not being loaded properly. After a bit of debugging we discovered that in line 53 of classes/lang.class.php, the str_replace function was replacing the slashes in $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’], as $cfg_root_path is just “/” (as it would be for any installation in the webroot directory). I would guess the purpose of this str_replace is to remove the top level directory from $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] for installations that are in a subdirectory of the webroot? Removing the str_replace function works for a webroot installation, but I’ve suggested a more complete solution below (though the if condition might need to be more rigorous). Another thing to note is that $cfg_web_root already has a “/” after it (as defined in install/index.php, line 45), and another slash is added in classes/lang.class.php, line 53 – I’ve changed that too below
Modified code (classes/lang.class.php, line 53):
if($cfg_root_path !== "/") {
$self_path = str_replace($cfg_root_path, '', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
}
else {
$self_path = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
}
$lang_path = $cfg_web_root . "lang/$language" . $self_path;
Once this was fixed, it was possible to complete the form with the necessary data for installation. However, the install still failed as it was not able to write the /config/config.inc.php file, as the /config file was not writeable by the Apache user. Having changed this (and deleted the database tables which had already been created), the install was attempted again and worked successfully.
Added to Trac, Ticket #680 – https://suivarro.nottingham.ac.uk/trac/rogo/ticket/680