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[carltonc Friend carltoncJoin date: September 2008Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#133448

I have no configuration.php file anywhere, but need it for the install. Can anyone help?

Also, maybe related to the above issue, when I try to login via the highslide login box, I get the following error:


Fatal error: Call to undefined function: stripos() in /public_html/libraries/joomla/environment/uri.php on line 675

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#271055

Which version are you using and what have you done so far?

[carltonc Friend carltoncJoin date: September 2008Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#271056

I’m using version 1.5 and I have managed to finish the install. I just can’t find the configuration file anywhere 😐

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#271061

At the last step of the installation, you get a message if Joomla itself cant create the configuration file, then you get all info you need to copy and you can use notepad and create a file called configuration.php and paste the text into and upload to root. Then it should work.

[carltonc Friend carltoncJoin date: September 2008Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#271062

I thought that may happen, but it didn’t. Joomla didn’t tell me to create the file nor did it give me any information to put into one.

[cgc0202 Friend cgc0202Join date: August 2007Posts: 2244Downloads:0Uploads:3 Thanks: 206 Thanked: 262 times in 1 posts]

#271063

<em>@carltonc 80532 wrote:</em><blockquote>I’m using version 1.5 and I have managed to finish the install. I just can’t find the configuration file anywhere :|</blockquote>

I assume you are doing a fresh install. Did you try the QuickStart Kit?

The configuration.php file should be created automatically from the configuration.php-dist (I think) if the web-based installation is done properly. I would recommend to perform another QuickStart installation instead of working with fresh install that has errors like this. The goal must be to get a Demo install page where everything works before you modify the page.

If not, you may be create it manually — except I would not know how you can “generate the secret word”. Or this might be in your backend, as well as many contents of the configuration.php, if you can access your site.

administrator => site => global configuration

the secret word will be in the System Settings

administrator => site => global configuration => System

Cornelio

N.B.

A sample configuration.php file where most of the information was removed. As stated above, many of the information (not all) required may be derived from the global configuration

<?php
class JConfig {
var $offline = '0';
var $editor = 'tinymce';
var $list_limit = '20';
var $helpurl = 'http://help.joomla.org';
var $debug = '0';
var $debug_lang = '0';
var $sef = '1';
var $sef_rewrite = '1';
var $sef_suffix = '1';
var $feed_limit = '10';
var $secret = 'rYNWiEc8LcOoMbSu';
var $gzip = '1';
var $error_reporting = '-1';
var $xmlrpc_server = '0';
var $log_path = '';
var $tmp_path = '';
var $live_site = '';
var $offset = '0';
var $caching = '0';
var $cachetime = '15';
var $cache_handler = 'file';
var $memcache_settings = array();
var $ftp_enable = '0';
var $ftp_host = '127.0.0.1';
var $ftp_port = '21';
var $ftp_user = '';
var $ftp_pass = '';
var $ftp_root = '';
var $dbtype = 'mysql';
var $host = 'localhost';
var $user = '';
var $db = '';
var $dbprefix = '';
var $mailer = 'mail';
var $mailfrom = '';
var $fromname = '';
var $sendmail = '';
var $smtpauth = '0';
var $smtpuser = '';
var $smtppass = '';
var $smtphost = 'localhost';
var $MetaAuthor = '1';
var $MetaTitle = '1';
var $lifetime = '60';
var $session_handler = '';
var $password = '';
var $sitename = '';
var $MetaDesc = '';
var $MetaKeys = '';
var $offline_message = 'This site is down for maintenance. Please check back again soon.';
}
?>

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[carltonc Friend carltoncJoin date: September 2008Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#271066

Have just ran another install and it has worked, thanks for your help both of you.

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#271069

<em>@carltonc 80544 wrote:</em><blockquote>Have just ran another install and it has worked, thanks for your help both of you.</blockquote>

I am glad it worked. My other suggestion is that you install another quickstart as a subdirectory or a subdomain in your site — to serve as your Sandbox. More than likely, if everything goes well, you should be updating your main site mostly, from hereon. However, before you update your site or add extensios to your main site, you may want to try to update or install extensions in your Sandbox site. This will allow you to test the impact of any modification.

Cornelio

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