Alex

Sent this to you privately in an email then figured best to post it here.

I ran the 2.0.4 upgrade from my browser because of the file path issues I have when running it from telnet on my HostPro VServer. It's less than 15,000 links so I figured no problem. It finishes adding the static files and gets as far as adding the Contact_Name column to the links table then stops. There's no message that the installation is complete. It did not add CategoryTemplate column to the Category table. It also did not clean up after itself by deleting the install.cgi and install.dat files.


Mark Brasche
http://SurfSafely.com/

Hi,

This is quite strange. Did your browser timeout? It can take a little bit of time, but shouldn't be that long. Send me an email with login details and I'll take a look.

Cheers,

Alex

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Browser did not time out. My Links table already has added columns in it. I added Keywords at position 8 and Email at the end which was position 19. Contact_Name was added at position 20 by the install script with NULL default. Could this be it?

I'll set you up with a new Telnet login so you can have a look in about an hour from now.

Mark Brasche
http://SurfSafely.com/

Mark,

I have exactly the same problem - also on VServers. How did you resolve this? I my case only the Contact_Name field was added and the script stopped executing at that point.

Safe swoops
Sangiro
http://www.dropzone.com/

I didn't resolve it. Alex did. For security purposes, I temporarily changed the telnet password so Alex could go in and manually update the tables for me. Then I changed the password back. Hopefully 2.1 will resolve this problem.

I may be moving it to a Freedom 400x before that though. I hear they offer the flexibility we need without the headaches and the jury is still out on my CIHost server.

Mark Brasche
http://SurfSafely.com/

Thanks Mark - I think I'll be packing up at VServers soon too....

Can you tell me the attributes of the fields that Alex created. i.e I know the Contact_Name field is: varchar(255) and Null=Yes.

What about the Contact_Email and Category_Template fields? If I know this I can add them manually myself....

Safe swoops
Sangiro
http://www.dropzone.com/

Cheers,

Mark Brasche
http://SurfSafely.com/