Installation/Creating your first application

[chm]

Hi everybody

I am posting for the first time here.
Steve, first of all: This is a fantastic piece of software; very good idea and obviously very well done! Thanks for sharing with us!

I played around with Xataface on my local machine and everything worked perfectly.
However I run into some problems when I tried to create applications on a shared hosting (I tried 3 different servers). Everything is fine when I am pointing to dataface/dataface_info.php ("Installed correctly").
Now, pointing to index.php it says:

Warning: require_once() [function.require-once.php]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/domain/public_html/folder/index.php on line 2

Warning: require_once(http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface/d ... ic-api.php) [function.require-once.php]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/domain/public_html/folder/index.php on line 2

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require.php]: Failed opening required 'http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface/dataface-public-api.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/domain/public_html/folder/index.php on line 2

My index.php looks like this:

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require_once 'http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface/dataface-public-api.php';
df_init(__FILE__, 'http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface');
$app =& Dataface_Application::getInstance();
$app->display();


What am I doing wrong? Or are there already at this stage some server side PHP restrictions involved?

[mikep]

Hey,

Have you tried looking in your web server's error log?

You also might try changing the path for the "require_once" line to the absolute path in your file system (i.e. /srv/www/htdocs/xataface/dataface-public-api.php, this varies based on your OS and which web server you're running). Thats how it is in both of my installations.


Mike

[chm]

mikep,

that was it! So simple, I just adjusted the path to the server's file system...
I am really sorry for bothering you with this!

Now it works, although I only get a very basic site, just white and some links. Obviously it doesn't load the css style sheet.

Could you get me a second hint?
Many thanks in advance!

[mikep]

Hey,

That usually happens when the df_init(__FILE__, line has the incorrect url. For instance if you have 'http://localhost/folder/xataface' in your index.php file and try to access http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface/index.php from your web browser.


Mike

[chm]

Brilliant!
Now it works. Obviously as a non programmer I got a little confused about the different paths.

In case somebody is stumbling as well in the future and is looking in the forum:

index.php
* require_once needs the absolute path of your server's file system (in my case it was: '/home/user/public_html/folder/xataface/dataface-public-api.php')

* df_init(__FILE__, needs the url of your xataface installation (e.g. 'http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface')

mikep, many thanks for your help!

[shannah]

In case somebody is stumbling as well in the future and is looking in the forum:

index.php
* require_once needs the absolute path of your server's file system (in my case it was: '/home/user/public_html/folder/xataface/dataface-public-api.php')

* df_init(__FILE__, needs the url of your xataface installation (e.g. 'http://www.domain.com/folder/xataface')

Just want to make a comment this you can also use relative paths for these. E.g.

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require_once 'xataface/dataface-public-api.php';
df_init(__FILE__, 'xataface');


But absolute paths are fine too.

The Xataface installer uses absolute paths because it may not have complete knowledge of where your application will end up.

Both ways are fine.