along Walnut Creek

After two days of working on this, finally through up my hands and registered another domain name at GoDaddy since they host simplog just fine.

Interland had an obnoxious way of saying that they weren’t going to updated their servers from old versions of Apache, PHP 4.0.6 and MySQL.

And as much as Simplog says they work with earlier versions, they don”t. If I had the time, I’d document and submit the patches needed to update the installation on old versions, but let me just say that the installation program needs to reference $_REQUEST is actually $HTTP_POST_VARS in the old days.

For now, waiting for www..com address to propogate at godaddy’s servers. Their pretty fast at doing it, but I’ve never been in this much of a hurry before.

A customer asked me to assist on a Simplog installation she was having issues with. Easiest thing for me to do was to try and install it on my system, and see if I run through the same problems she did.

1. Took me forever to get the files to extract. StuffIt kept blowing up my machine, so uninstalled and tried WinZip. Much Better.
2. Username, password and DB name show up in a different order than I am used to. Kept screwing up the config entries.
3. Remember to copy config-dist.php to config.php
4. I didn’t know the pathing on the remote server, but was able to learn it by looking at debug messages.