OK. I'm getting this:

WARNING!
Your forum may not work properly if you continue. Setup recommends editing the path to directories in Settings.pl and then refreshing this page until this message disappears. There was a problem verifying that the following directories exist:
# Prefs Currently set to: ./Prefs
# Languages Currently set to: ./Languages
# Avatars Currently set to: /blahdocs/Avatars
# uploads Currently set to: /blahdocs/uploads
# template Currently set to: /blahdocs/template
The following may help you figure out what your paths are:
Document Root:
Script name: E:\inetpub\vhosts\mistywaters.org\httpdocs\forum\eblah-sql-beta-3-5\eblah-sql-beta-3\forum\Install.pl
Please note that not all server report the above information correctly.


and have searched this forum and found solutions to which I cannot understand. It seems I have to use 666 (rw in all 3 areas) in permissions. But I am having trouble doing that. When I right click on the settings.pl file before ftp-ing, I don't have the option of changing the permissions. I am sure I am missing something. Plus my notepad brings up nothing when reading the settings.pl file.

Help please.

God bless.

Dan

You've got to change the paths in Install.pl.

Make sure you put the full path to those directories.

The first time it said Language was set to ./language. I changed the path in install.pl to Languages Currently set to: http://www.mistywaters.org/httpdocs/forum/eblah-sql-beta-3-5/eblah-sql-beta-3/forum/Languages . It's still red though.

Am I on the right track?

Thank you,

Dan

I contacted my server company and asked if they could help. This is their reply:

Hi Dan,

We do understand what the error message says and have created the missing folders accordingly. But the Settings.pl file is BLANK, we cannot modify it unless it has something in it. Can you check with the developer please ?
Also, by 'full server address' we believe you mean the full path to your domain root, which is 'E:\inetpub\vhosts\mistywaters.org\httpdocs' .

Please let us know if we can assist further.

How do I get something to show up in my Settings.pl file?

Dan

I have downloaded and unzipped a few RC from the past. The newest version has nothing in the Settings.pl file to begin with. The RC's from the past has something in the Settings file, but the newest version is blank.

It should be in Install.pl, NOT Settings.pl.  With the SQL version Settings.pl is written afterwards.

Change $root = "."; to match the directory in which /cgi-bin/forum/ (this is the default directory) is located.

Change $bdocsdir2 = "$ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'}/blahdocs"; to the path to where blahdocs is located.

These are both found in Install.pl

Thanks, Justin. That worked.  

On install, I get this after entering my DB info,

Error:

Table 'eblah_activelist' already exists
CREATE TABLE `eblah_activelist` (
  `user` varchar(25) NOT NULL,
  `guest` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `time` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `view` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL,
  `boardid` int(10) DEFAULT NULL,
  `messageid` int(10) DEFAULT NULL,
  KEY `time` (`time`)
)


and this error:


Table 'mwdb.eblah_members' doesn't exist

INSERT INTO `eblah_members` (`sn`,`password`,`email`,`registered`,`md5upgrade`) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?)




The Settings.pl has this at the top: (asterisk's for security)

$forumdbdb = "****";
$forumdbserver = "localhost";
$forumdbuser = "*********";
$forumdbpass = "********";
$forumprefix = "eblah_";
$membersdir = "";
$boardsdir = "";
$messagesdir = "";
$userpassword = "*********";
$databasetype = "mysql";

So it looks like I am missing something.

Try to delete the Settings.pl and then go to your phpMyAdmin and delete the tables for E-Blah (OR just run the install with a different forum prefix).