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Hello everyone,

This is my first time setting up Dataface and I have run into problems

I am hoping someone out there can point me in the right direction.

I really, really want to get this working and it looks like it could be an amazing tool if I can figure out where I went wrong.

I installed Dataface and that seemed to go fine until now.

When i go to http://vha0018.moc.gbahn.net/dataface/

I see:
Error loading config file. No tables specified.

It gave me an all ok when I installed.


So in turn I am guessing that is why I am getting an error when I try to setup my first applictaion.

http://vha0018.moc.gbahn.net/letterstosanta/

Thanks for your help in advance.

Joy

Hi Joy,

Looks like not all of the Dataface files may have been installed correctly. Check to make sure that the file dataface/lib/I18Nv2/I18Nv2.php is there and is readable by the web server.

The initial error you got about "no tables specified" is nothing to worry about . The second error is the one you will want to tackle.

Best regards

Steve

Now I am getting this:

http://vha0018.moc.gbahn.net/letterstosanta/

Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/opt/apache/LAMP2-montgomery_Web/lamp2.php.montgomeryadvertiser.com/dataface) is not within the allowed path(s): (/gmti/www/montgomery:/app/php/5.2.2-lamp/lib) in /gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/Dataface/Application.php on line 556

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/opt/apache/LAMP2-montgomery_Web/lamp2.php.montgomeryadvertiser.com/dataface) is not within the allowed path(s): (/gmti/www/montgomery:/app/php/5.2.2-lamp/lib) in /gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/Dataface/Application.php on line 556

Warning: ini_set() [function.ini-set]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/opt/apache/LAMP2-montgomery_Web/lamp2.php.montgomeryadvertiser.com/dataface) is not within the allowed path(s): (/gmti/www/montgomery:/app/php/5.2.2-lamp/lib) in /gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/Dataface/Application.php on line 557

Warning: require_once(SQL/Parser.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/config.inc.php on line 223

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'SQL/Parser.php' (include_path='.:/gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface:/gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/lib:/app/php/5.2.2-lamp/lib/php') in /gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/config.inc.php on line 223

So I am down to it only saying....

Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/opt/apache/LAMP2-montgomery_Web/lamp2.php.montgomeryadvertiser.com/dataface) is not within the allowed path(s): (/gmti/www/montgomery:/app/php/5.2.2-lamp/lib) in /gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/Dataface/Application.php on line 556

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/opt/apache/LAMP2-montgomery_Web/lamp2.php.montgomeryadvertiser.com/dataface) is not within the allowed path(s): (/gmti/www/montgomery:/app/php/5.2.2-lamp/lib) in /gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/Dataface/Application.php on line 556

Warning: ini_set() [function.ini-set]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/opt/apache/LAMP2-montgomery_Web/lamp2.php.montgomeryadvertiser.com/dataface) is not within the allowed path(s): (/gmti/www/montgomery:/app/php/5.2.2-lamp/lib) in /gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/Dataface/Application.php on line 557

OK.. Looks like your server has an open_basedir restriction (http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php -- find 'open_basedir'), which prevents you from using files outside of your directory tree.

Evidently you have dataface installed in a different location than your application /opt/apache/LAMP2-montgomery_Web/lamp2.php.montgomeryadvertiser.com/dataface

If there is an alternate path designation for your dataface installation directory that would cause it to be within the /gmti/www/montgomery directory, it would probably fix this issue to alter the index.php file to refer to these paths instead.

Hope this makes sense.

On a side note it looks like the only objections it has come when Dataface tries to create new directories. This occurs in the following cases:

1. In the Dataface/templates_c directory to store compiled templates.
2. In the sessions directory to set a custom directory to store sessions.

You can solve case 1 by adding templates and templates_c directories to your application directory respectively and make templates_c writable by the web server.

You can solve case 2 by adding a call to session_save_path at the beginning of your index.php file and changing the session save path to a directory that you are allowed to modify.

Best regards

-Steve

Ok, so I changed my index.php to this....


session_save_path('/gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/tmp');
df_init(__FILE__, 'http://vha0018.moc.gbahn.net/dataface/');

$app =& Dataface_Application::getInstance();

$app->display();
?>

and now the page comes up blank. Is this a step in the right direction?


http://vha0018.moc.gbahn.net/letterstosanta/


As for the paths....

I was given this to use as the path..
/gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/

But when I get an error I see...
/opt/apache/LAMP2-montgomery_Web/lamp2.php.montgomeryadvertiser.com/dataface

Any idea which would be best to use?

Blank screen usually means that an error occurred. Check your error log.
Eyeballing this code it looks like you have a syntax error with

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require_once'/gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/dataface-public-api.php';


Make sure there is a space between require_once and the path:
i.e.:

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require_once '/gmti/www/montgomery/phpsite/dataface/dataface-public-api.php';


unfortunatly I do not have access to the error logs

I made the change and still a blank page.

As a test I changed the file to:


session_save_path('/opt/apache/LAMP2-montgomery_Web/lamp2.php.montgomeryadvertiser.com/tmp');
df_init(__FILE__, 'http://vha0018.moc.gbahn.net/dataface/');

$app =& Dataface_Application::getInstance();

$app->display();
?>


And now I can see the error again..I rather see the error than nothing.

No error logs! ouch.. that makes for difficult development.

You can add the following to the beginning of your code to try to force errors to be displayed on the screen:

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error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors','on');


As far as your index.php file goes another thing to look at is that your call to require_once appears to immediately follow the opening
-Steve