• Registered: 2006-10-16
  • Posts: 5

Topic: Can't Install

Hi all,

I'm a novice punBBB user and I've just tried to install it on my site.  I did the install and everything worked fine except when I go to the index nothing's there.  It's a totally blank page.  You can see for yourself at http://www.berkeleyjsa.org/forums

This has happened on prior attempts (like, months ago).  I'm pretty positive it's not a problem with the config.php information.

Here are the contents of my folder (I've deleted the install.php file)

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/9585/screenpn8.jpg

  • Smartys
  • Former PunBB Developer
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  • Registered: 2004-04-30
  • Posts: 7,844

Re: Can't Install

My best guess would be some issue like this:
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=11538

Edit: And here's the issue
http://www.berkeleyjsa.org/forums/config.php

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /path/forums/config.php on line 7

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /path/forums/config.php on line 8

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /path/forums/config.php on line 9

The issue is with the config.php file tongue

  • Registered: 2006-10-16
  • Posts: 5

Re: Can't Install

Yay!!!

It wasn't a parse error.  It was something very stupid.  I created the config.php file in TextEdit, saved it, changed the extension to .php and thought that would make it a PHP file.  But I forgot to make sure it was in plain text format before I saved.

Weird.