Hi there

I have just purchased the commercial version of EE and I am also having problems installing it.

I have uploaded all the files as instructed and I for testing purposes I have left the system folder with its default name.

I am using shared hosting and it has PHP Version 5.2.13 on a linux server.

I am getting the following message when I enter the path to the index.php file into a browser i.e http://www.mydomain.com/index.php

Your config file does not appear to be formatted correctly.

I have not edited the index.php file to it has the default:

Thinking that perhaps I needed to install first before this URL would work, I tried the following URL

http://www.mydomain.com/system

And I get the following error:

Unable to determine what should be displayed. A default route has not been specified in the routing file.

Any help much appreciated! Not a great start so hope things get smoother:)

This is a new install, correct, not an upgrade? When did you download EE? There was a hotfix a couple of days ago, so make sure you’ve got that.

Yes a new install. Downloaded EE today so assume this includes any hotfixes?

Mediakitchen,

Can you run our Server Wizard on your server please?

Can you also clarify that these were the install instructions you were using?

Did you put the system folder above the above the public web “root” folder?

Thanks John

I have now had a friend who has been using EE for quite some time install it for me. He said he had to make various workarounds to get it to work so perhaps there is an issue with your latest installer or instructions.

For your interest, I did run the server wizard and got the following results:

PHP Version 4.3.2 or greater     required     Yes
MySQL (Version 4.1+) support in PHP   required   Yes
URL Segment Support   suggested   Yes
CAPTCHAs feature and watermarking in Image Gallery   suggested   Yes
Ability to send Pings   suggested   Yes
Image Thumbnailing using GD, GD2, Imagemagick or NetPBM   suggested   Yes
GIF Image Resizing Using GD (or GD 2)    optional   Yes
JPEG Image Resizing Using GD (or GD 2)    optional   Yes
PNG Image Resizing Using GD (or GD 2)    optional   Yes
Built in Spellchecker   optional   Yes
Congratulations! Your server is ready to use ExpressionEngine!

Anyway I am now up and running!

Thanks

Paul

Paul. Just glad you are up and running. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.