Newscoop 4.0.2
  • Vote Up0Vote Down stiltwalkstiltwalk
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    I am having real difficulties in installing Newscoop

    I have tried installing the files for 4.0.2 but the is a recursive link for /include/smarty/libs that means it crashes the FTP upload

    I have tried to install 3.5.5 with php 5.4.5 - install starts to work and fails on install of sample data and setting of admin passwords

    Any help would be greatly appreciated here.
    Post edited by Andrey Podshivalov at 2012-08-30 06:02:12
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Andrey PodshivalovAndrey Podshivalov
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    1. Instead of lib symlink you can just duplicate files from /include/smarty  It will be fixed in next release.
    2. newscoop 3.5.5 is not compatible only with php 5.2.x and 5.3.x
  • Vote Up0Vote Down stiltwalkstiltwalk
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    Andrey on 4.0.2 which files from include/smarty? - do you mean the ones from include/smarty from 3.5.5?

    is 4.0.2 compatible with:
    MySQL version:5.0.92-1~ui60+1
    PHP version:5.4.5
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Andrey PodshivalovAndrey Podshivalov
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    stiltwalk said:

    Andrey on 4.0.2 which files from include/smarty? - do you mean the ones from include/smarty from 3.5.5?



    no, just duplicate from 4.0.2

    I know that 3.5.5 is not compatible with php 5.4.x. I guess the same for newscoop 4.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down stiltwalkstiltwalk
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    how do I duplicate from 4.0.2 I can't open the folder /include/smarty/libs as its a symlink with no files - where do I get the contents of /include/smarty/libs or do I just ignore that folder?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down stiltwalkstiltwalk
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    The only other php version option I have is:
    MySQL version:5.0.92-1~ui60+1
    PHP version:5.2.17

    will this work with 4.0.2 and 3.5.5?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Andrey PodshivalovAndrey Podshivalov
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    stiltwalk said:

    how do I duplicate from 4.0.2 I can't open the folder /include/smarty/libs as its a symlink with no files - where do I get the contents of /include/smarty/libs or do I just ignore that folder?



    remove link and create folder
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Andrey PodshivalovAndrey Podshivalov
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    stiltwalk said:

    The only other php version option I have is:

    MySQL version:5.0.92-1~ui60+1
    PHP version:5.2.17

    will this work with 4.0.2 and 3.5.5?


    only 3.5.5
    newscoop 4 requires only php 5.3.x
  • Vote Up0Vote Down stiltwalkstiltwalk
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    I am having some real issues with this ... 5.3.x is not an option for me its 5.2.x or 5.4.x what can I do?

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Andrey PodshivalovAndrey Podshivalov
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    only newscoop 3.5.5 works on php 5.2.x
    php 5.4.x is not suitable for any newscoop version
  • Vote Up0Vote Down stiltwalkstiltwalk
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    will the next version of newscoop be php 5.4 compatible?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Andrey PodshivalovAndrey Podshivalov
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    I'm not sure. We are following the base linux distros (ubuntu/debian)  and php 5.4.x is not introduced yet.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down stiltwalkstiltwalk
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    just been speaking with our managed server provides and php 5.3 has been left behing because 5.4 caters for it in the main. But here it doesn't.

    Its a little disappointing that 4.0.2 is so specific on platform for php when php has moved on a version more than 1 year ago.

    are you likely to fix this problem in the short term?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Andrey PodshivalovAndrey Podshivalov
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    as I explained the 5.3 is our main php version. Unfortunately while all distros are using 5.3 we are not going to spend time to adapt for php 5.4
  • Vote Up0Vote Down stiltwalkstiltwalk
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    I guess its back to Joomla for me then - as this is a rather difficult situation. I can't use php5.3 and I need some of the functionality of 4.0.2
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