Installation: Errors during installation

I had to put
ini_set("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);
on the top of the file top actually see these errors. Without these lines, there was just a blank screen when I tried to run _install.php

Here is the errors: http://www.truemetal.org/cirithungol/plogger/plog-admin/_install.php

I tried to set all permissions to 755, but no difference.

Dani,

Which version of PHP are you running?

Basically, your webhost has open_basedir and include_path set to include the '.' directory, which is the current working directory (the directory that the current script is running in or any sub-directories). What the issue is here is that the Plogger admin side is in the directory 'plog-admin/' and it is being blocked from including anything in the main Plogger directory, the plog-content/ directory, or the plog-includes/ directory since they are not within a sub-directory of the current working directory. On the majority of hosts, these settings include the root directory of your website (allowing you to include any files within your own hosted space).

However, if your server is running PHP >= 5.2.3, we could include the Plogger base directory in these 2 options that should allow everything to work out. If you are running less than 5.2.3, you will need to talk with your webhost about a workaround for these settings.

We could also try to workaround it with chdir(), but it may not work either. Let me know if you want to try this.

You could try this, but you will need to edit quite a few files (not big edits though). It would probably be easier to have your webhost change the php.ini values above to include the root directory of your website. Also, I do not know that your host needs to upgrade their PHP installation, just update their php.ini file to include the root directory of your website with the open_basedir setting (instead of the relative path of the current working directory).

However, here is the code that you will need to enter on the 2nd line of the files listed below (just below the opening <?php:
chdir(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)));

Add that code to the following files:
plog-admin/_install.php
plog-admin/_upgrade.php
plog-admin/index.php
plog-admin/plog-admin.php
plog-admin/plog-admin-functions.php
plog-admin/plog-feedback.php
plog-admin/plog-import.php
plog-admin/plog-manage.php
plog-admin/plog-options.php
plog-admin/plog-plugins.php
plog-admin/plog-rpc.php
plog-admin/plog-themes.php
plog-admin/plog-thumb.php
plog-admin/plog-upload.php
plog-includes/plog-captcha.php
plog-includes/plog-functions.php

And finally you will need to add this code:
chdir(dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))));
to the second line of:
plog-admin/includes/install-functions.php

I think that should do it (but I have not tested because I do not have access to a server with this open_basedir setting). Basically, the code attempts to change the current working directory to the main Plogger directory instead of using the current subdirectory. Everything else should work on the system because we use absolute paths instead of relative paths for the code file references. Keep in mind that you can always remove the line again if it does not work and we can try something else (it's easily reversible if you get the same or more errors than before).