I suspect this may not be a Nuke issue but here goes anyway. I've unzipped 7.7 and uploaded the entire contents of the HTML directory to my host (Linux) server. I am using an IP address to reference my site at present until it works smoothly at which time I will point my domain name to the hosts name servers. Prior to uploading I ran the blank site okay locally but could only access it via the EASYPHP console-not via my browser (IE6)

My hosting account is set up and running okay. The user name and password access to the hosts MySQL database is up and running and I have created my database and populated it from the nuke.sql dump using the host's PHPadmin console.

I have several problems however (ie it doesn't work) and feel a bit like someone who has a marathon to run but can't figure how to tie his shoe laces.

1 During local testing, after entering admin and 'god' user names passwords etc, I keep getting looped back to the login screen. PHP Nuke doc suggest this might be a cookie problem, but I allowed all cookies and the problem persisted.

2 When I 'point my browser' at any *php file, it opens in my nominated text editor (in this case Crimson Editor) but does not execute. What gives ?

3 The host's implementation of PHPMyadmin appears to have no 'drop' function

4 The host requires that my 'homepage' be titled 'index.html' and I can't see how this requrement will fit with the PHPNuke schema which has no such file in the root directory. (Maybe it does but I just can't see it :wink: :?: . In the meantime when I go to my site I am directed to the hosts admin page.

Can someone offer any ideas for me ?

How about a link

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Thank you dar63

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How about a link

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Site address is 67.15.126.20

Are you sure you've uploaded the nuke files to the correct place on your hosting?

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Almost certain, yes.

Host is www.smartyhost.com.au and here is an extract from their online setup guide. I have followed these instructions and used the hosts PHPAdmin panel to drill down and verify that the PHP Nuke directories and PHP files are in the right location.

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PLEASE NOTE: Once you purchase a domain name and web hosting account from SmartyHost your account is setup in realtime. The DNS is also added to your domain automatically. In some cases it can take up to 24 hours for the DNS to fully propagate through the Internet. You know your domain has fully propagated when you type your domain into the browser and are taken to a welcome page. If you have purchased your domain from another provider and are using SmartyHost for hosting only, then you need to add our DNS to your domain. You do this by contacting the registrar you registered your domain with and logging into their management area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. CONTROL PANEL: Your control panel is used for creating email accounts, checking your bandwidth usage, creating private members' areas etc.. You can access your control panel at: http://www.yourdomain.com/admin Username: Your Hosting Username Password: Your Hosting Password Example: Your domain name is <tomjones.com>; your hosting username is <records>; and your password is <record8js9> then the Control panel login will be: http://www.tomjones.com/admin Username: records Password: record8js9 2. PUBLISH YOUR WEBSITE: To publish your website you can use FTP or FrontPage. Do not use the control panel to publish your website. The format of your FTP login is: Host Name: www.yourdomain.com UserID: username@yourdomain.com Password: password Example: Your domain name is <tomjones.com>; your hosting username is <records>; and your password is <record8js9> then the FTP login is: Host Name: www.tomjones.com UserID: records@tomjones.com Password: record8js9 PLEASE NOTE: 1. The host name should be in this format: www.yourdomain.com. Do not use ftp.yourdomain.com. 2. Make sure you upload to the directory: /var/www/html 3. Make sure your home page is called index.html

I have an idea that point 3 (above). (also see my point 4 in OP) is creating a problem. The hoster puts a default index.html file in the /var/www/html directory but invites (me) the site owner to replace this with an index.html which is suited to the needs of my site. Can this work to 'launch' PHP Nuke ?

I can Post/PM both the site and MySQL user/password details if you wish.

Thanks again.

Forget the index.html thing because that's irrelevant, you just delete that and phpnukes index.php will be picked up as the index page.

One problem I can see is that your hosting admin section is at http://www.yourdomain.com/admin this may cause issues as there is an admin folder in nuke.

Try this, set up your nuke site in a dir called site or something and see if it works.

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Problem solved

Not without pain. Problems related to my careless syntax in the config.php file.

My advice-check these strings very closely indeed with particular scrutiny on leading and trailing blanks and capitalization.

The ANALYZER.PHP script from NukeCops proved very :!: useful in displaying clues to this problem.

Thank you dar63 for helping.