I've come across the same problem as you several times now. Last night I spent some time debugging the code (ugg) and narrowed the problem down to line 441 in file Template.php. It seems as though the fopen call fails and nothing happens after that.

I'm assuming there is a php setting somewhere that can fix the cause of this but i'm not too sure what or where.

Looking around for some info about fopen it seems that safe_mode and open_basedir are two settings that can affect things. I don't have safe_mode enabled and open_basedir isn't set to anything.

Anyone have a clue???

Cheers,

ahmi

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I've just downloaded RC3, and tried to install it, but no luck. In fact, I get exactly the same result as with RC2. After successfully completing the installation process and moving the LocalSettings.php file from the config directory, I click in the link that's supposed to take me to the front page, and instead I get:

[pear_error: message="failed to open stream: Operation not permitted" code=0 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info=""]

Here's the successful environment check:

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PHP 4.3.5 ok PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. PHP is configured with no memory_limit. Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Installation directory: /home/.nacia/biggles/rpgpage.com/wiki Script URI path: /wiki Warning: $wgProxyKey is insecure MySQL error 1045: Access denied for user: 'root at tofu.dreamhost.com' (Using password: NO) Trying regular user... ok. Connected to database... 4.0.20-log; enabling MySQL 4 enhancementsWarning: $wgProxyKey is insecure Database rpgpage exists Creating tables... done. Initializing data... Created sysop account WikiSysop. Initialising log pages... Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Creating LocalSettings.php...

Success! Move the LocalSettings.php file into the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki.

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It looks like a problem with pear, except...I have RC2 running successfully (brilliantly) on another of my websites on the same webserver (I have a number of domains running within the same hosting environment). The intention was to move the wiki from where it's working to a more appropriate domain, but I can't get it to work anywhere else, and a fresh, clean install gives me the exact same result.

PS No one except the web hoster has root access to the database server, but I didn't need it to get it working the first time. To summarise, all domains are on one honkin' big web server, all databases are on one honkin' big database server. As far as I can tell, this is a pretty standard setup for a commercial hosting environment.

Any thoughts, anyone? I must have clean installed this software (RC2 and RC3) close to a dozen times now, and only once has it worked...and that one works brilliantly, as I said.

Cheers

Peter Leitch

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