Installing on Yahoo Hosting Platform

Installing on Yahoo Hosting Platform

by Eric Fatherree -
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I am having some problems getting past the "database host" part of my installation.  I am using Yahoo small business hosting with mysql installed.  When I copied my files over to the directory i may have got them in to may sub-folders because i did not realize it would make its own.  I also do not know how to edit my "config.php" correctly.  I have been working on it for hours and just about to go crazy.  Would really be nice if someone could email or call me to help me walk through a few steps and get me on the right track. 

 

Thanks

Eric

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Re: Installing on Yahoo Hosting Platform

by Stew Walker -

Morning Eric..

I don't know if this is still true but as of 9 months ago .. "Yahoo! Web Hosting doesn't have MySQL 5 running" .. as mentioned here.

Have you created the Moodle database? If not Yahoo Web Developer would be the first place I go.. It should give you the db create option and allow you to view the connection param's Moodle needs to make the connection.

Also as mentioned here in Yahoo answers

     
  

You can also identify which version of PHP you are currently running by visiting the

Create & Update tab and opening the Other Site Building Tools module.

Under PHP Version, you'll see your current PHP version.

   
     

Have a good day.

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Re: Installing on Yahoo Hosting Platform

by Eric Fatherree -

MySql - Running version: 5.1.55

php running version: 5.3.6

Trying to install moodle 2.2.3+

I deleted all attempts, folders, and databases and restarted from scratch. 

Yahoo can only protect a directory in whole and can not change settings for "read, write" I tried many different ways and still getting the same error of "Dataroot location is not secure"  If I try to let moodle install set its own data location it gives me error of "can not write to location"

My moodle files are located at /moodlefiles/moodle and trying to set data directory to /moodledata.

I also tryed to create a ".htaccess" file but yahoo says you can not create a file with symbols located in the name and that its a shared server so can not change the .htaccess file

Is there any other way to get this to install on my Yahoo based website.  They also informed me that their servers are apache.

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by Stew Walker -
   
Folders

I had the same problem on  Go Daddy. I didn't realize that I could place the moodledata folders in a folder that is located above the login default folder (htdocs).

htdocs > mkdir -p Moodle/Production - from the default folder

cd .. - goto level above htdocs

mkdir -p Student/Moodle/Data

Tell Moodle to look for the moodledata here. It worked on GoDaddy.

Hope this helps..
   
   
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Re: Installing on Yahoo Hosting Platform

by Stew Walker -

Did you see this?

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182086

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Re: Installing on Yahoo Hosting Platform

by Eric Fatherree -

Stew, I'm not sure I follow you here, my root does not have any of those file locations.  

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by Stew Walker -

Eric.. Sorry I could'nt get back to this sooner.. Did you get things moving? Above folders were just examples. I created them on my GoDaddy site the 2nd time around.. How are you accessing your web host? ftp, ssh or the control panel yahoo provides?

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by Eric Fatherree -

I am using the yahoo control panel, I placed a file on the root so you could see a snap shot of what my file setup looks like. http://ncasems.com/moodlefiles/moodlefile.doc

Yahoo says that I can not get past the write error to the directory or "not protected" error by placing a .htaccess file.  I have been stuck on this issue for about a week and do not know what else to do to get around it.  I have tried moving my moodle files from /moodle to /moodlefiles/moodle to see if i moved the location deeper into the root it would work but guess not.  I still get the "data is not secure" error.  If I try to let moodle install create my data location for me, it says can not write to location and it is public, do not have that locked down.

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