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I am a newby on CiviCRM.

I tried to install civiCRM on Drupal. The database stuff and settings did look good during installation.
But:
I had to change the index.php file in the install directory because there were hard coded slashes and no variable. But that was very quickly found and as I am not a php programmer i was a bit proud that i solved the thing.

But the index.php gave me the following warnings:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/tmp\sess_7fa61c27f799e0fdbe1f7c40853007eb, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CRM\sites\all\modules\civicrm\drupal\install\index.php on line 569

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CRM\sites\all\modules\civicrm\drupal\install\index.php:569) in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CRM\sites\all\modules\civicrm\drupal\install\index.php on line 569

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CRM\sites\all\modules\civicrm\drupal\install\index.php:569) in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CRM\sites\all\modules\civicrm\drupal\install\index.php on line 569
Installing CiviCRM...
I am now running through the installation steps (this should take a few minutes)
If you receive a fatal error, refresh this page to continue the installation
•  Building database schema and setup files...
Installed CiviCRM successfully. I will now try and direct you to Drupal Home to confirm that the installation was successful.

Warning: Unknown: open(/tmp\sess_7fa61c27f799e0fdbe1f7c40853007eb, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0

So the installation seemed succesful.
After enabling CiviCRM in drupal and pushing the save button something went wrong.
There was a page was not found problem.
Everything i tried that invovled civicrm gave the same problem.

It is an installation under windows. It's a test version and I opened up all the rights.

Thanks a lot,

Thanks, changing the session.save_path did help. The warning are gone but :
The page not found is still coming.

This is coming after enabling and disabling the civicrm module and when te module is enabled after selecting the civicrm option in the navigation manu.
(the page would be : http://localhost/CRM/index.php?q=civicrm)

Is there something taht I could check ?
Can I put some debug statements somewhere ?

It may sound stupid but where do I find these error logs ?

I do work with IIS on XP and did look for events in the eventviewer, tried the error logs in \system32\Logfiles\W3SVC1.
But didn't found anything.

I looked for other messages on this forum and checked some little things as:
memory_limit = 128M
error_reporting  =  E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

I did use the automated installler !

I am having a very similar problem.  I am running Apache 1.3.33, PHP 5.2, MySQL 5.0.27 on MacOSX 10.4.

I believe the above configuration is irrelevant and if the problem is the same as mine then Windows is also not the issue.

I installed Drupal 5.2 using its wizard and used the DB name drupalcrm.  I then ran the CiviCRM install and accidentally used the Drupal DB name drupal which existed from another test install previously and unrelated to CiviCRM.  I enabled the module and recieved the oddities mentioned by the poster.  I decided to try re-installing CiviCRM - deleted the civicrm.settings.php, dropped the civicrm DB, and reran the wizard.  I then noticed my mistake when the browser's autofill showed 'drupal' as the Drupal DB name.  So I put in the correct name, etc. and ran the install.  Still had the errors about Page Not Found. 

After reading this posting, I decided to check for errors but no errors were there as the default MacOSX PHP install has errors not going to the screen and does not define an error_log filename.  Changed all that, deleted the civicrm.settings.php, dropped the civicrm AND drupalcrm DB.  After rerunning both install wizards all appears to work fine.

I do not know why I needed to drop the drupalcrm database to get this to work.  It seems that given the right DB it should have worked fine.  Maybe it would have and maybe I messed something else up.  It would seem like a good idea to use the Drupal database named in settings.php to keep people from messing it up like I did.  At least prepopulate the values from there and let people change it if they must.  Just a thought.

HTH,

David Lloyd
lloydhome.com

Hey Martin:

Thanx for offering to spend time getting CiviCRM to work a bit better on windows. Much appreciated

IRC (irc.freenode.net, #civicrm) is a much better channel for support (since its real time, interactive) rather than forum. So please get on IRC and we can help you there

We definitely are willing to answer as many questions as needed to make this work. There are a few people out there that use CiviCRM on windows. So i think its just a few tweaks to catch all the error conditions etc

You might want to start with giving us a better idea of what is wrong with our windows settings. The installer code is at: drupal/install/

Apologies, if i've sounded "in a bad mood" on the forum sometimes I'll try to maintain a good mood when answering forum posts

lobo
lobo

Hi Lobo,

Thanks for your good mood. I don't have any expirence with IRC. But that will work. I will start with registering on http://freenode.net.

I tried to change all the slashes and backslashes suggested by EdGeraghty. That gave no result.
Can you tell what procedures are being called by drupel directly after enabling the module and of course pushing the save butten.

What procedure is being called when teh user clicks the civicrm buton in the navigation menu.
Corresponding the link : http://localhost/crm/index.php?q=civicrm.

Thanks a lot,
Mathran

Hi Lobo,

I seems that the CRM_Utils_System::Redirect function returns a https adress instant of a http adress.
If I hard code the adress with htpp instant of https the menu civicrm does respond.
I don't (yet) know if everything is as it should be but it responds.

Does this give any idea where I should look next ?

I did spend some time trying to find out where IIS leaves his errorlog but for now : no result. (Sorry)

Thanks,
Martin

martin:

I think i fixed the issue in the codebase. The fix will be part of the next 1.8 release (sometime this week). Thanx for the investigation

lobo