Joomla Templates Club 406,261 posts

[simon1664 Friend simon1664Join date: August 2013Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#191112

Hi there,

I uploaded the unzipped quickstart template files in my host folder and then I typed the site url. I am prompted to an error message instead of the installation page:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘=’, expecting ‘(‘ in /homez.744/XXXXX/www/includes/framework.php on line 42

– XXXXX replaces my username in the ftp
– www is the folder where I uploaded the files

Had anyone come across this error message before? I am new to this world and I would not be surprised if it is a typical newbie question… I have made few researches already but cannot find anything really. Hope it helps others too.

Thanks
Regards
Simon

[phong nam Friend phong namJoin date: May 2015Posts: 3779Downloads:1Uploads:587 Thanks: 499 Thanked: 974 times in 888 posts]

#507881

Hi Simon,

You can check out your serve to make sure that it satisfy the technical requirements of Joomla installation at http://www.joomla.org/about-joomla/technical-requirements.html

In addition, i suggest you to install the quickstart on localhost firstly, move the installed files and database to remote server then. That is a potential solution in case some servers don’t support to install Joomla directly on. You can refer this tutorial to know how to move website to remote server at http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/how-to-move-a-jomla-site-from-local-to-live-server/

[simon1664 Friend simon1664Join date: August 2013Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#509518

Thank you Leo, sorry for coming bacl so late I have made many attempts.

The server offers to install joomla 2.5 so I assume the requirements are met.

I installed on localhost and then I managed to go to point 9 on the second link you provided me. It does not work then. I decided to give it a go with the manual upload changing the configuration.php file.

I updated it but now I have a page that says it works – it is the index.html file that is the source file. Should I change it or change htaccess.txt to .htaccess and edit the file?

Thanks in advance
Hope you or someone can help.

Regards
Simon

[phong nam Friend phong namJoin date: May 2015Posts: 3779Downloads:1Uploads:587 Thanks: 499 Thanked: 974 times in 888 posts]

#509612

Hi Simon,

In my experience, i just rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess file when i want to configure the SEFs settings or access permissions on internal links (component, plugin, module …) and IPs of regions, person i want to ban. In case, if you don’t need to do above reasons, you should not change htaccess.txt .

1 user says Thank You to phong nam for this useful post

1. simon1664

[simon1664 Friend simon1664Join date: August 2013Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#518297

Thanks Leo for your help.

I changed hosting company and now it works with the new one. OVH was not helpful. It runs well with hostpapa. And I could also use the joomla 3 version (OVH left me run only the 2.5).

Thanks a lot.

1 user says Thank You to simon1664 for this useful post

1. phong nam

[Author]

Posts