Fresh 9.8 Install Fails

[Chris Brewer]

Brand new Ubuntu Server 22.04 installation, trying to install RS9.8 failing to write tables at setup.

• Apache/2.4.52
  
• PHP 8.1.2
  
• mysqld  Ver 10.6.7-MariaDB-2ubuntu1
  

Correct PHP modules are loaded:

php -m
[PHP Modules]
apcu
bz2
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
exif
FFI
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gd
gettext
hash
iconv
intl
json
libxml
mbstring
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
pdo_mysql
Phar
posix
readline
Reflection
session
shmop
SimpleXML
sockets
sodium
SPL
standard
sysvmsg
sysvsem
sysvshm
tokenizer
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
xsl
Zend OPcache
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]
Zend OPcache

Followed Ubuntu directions, and directions to create DB users (read and read/write) and assign table permissions. Tested DB users and passwords via phpmyadmin and can login and have correct permissions.

File ownership set to me:www-data and permissions on all files/folders provide correct access.

The Setup page reports all is well. All binaries are found, etc. 

Hitting dbtest.php with the read and read/write users and credentials correctly delivers a good 200 response.

/includes/config.php is written, but no DB tables are created.

[Mike Perry]

See the last post in 'Fresh install Table 'your_db_name.plugins' doesn't exist' - looks like your issues may stem from Ubuntu 22.04.

[dave]

I had problems running ResourceSpace under Ubuntu 22.04 until I installed and configured Ubuntu to use PHP 8.0 as the default PHP on the system. ResourceSpace now runs fine under Ubuntu 22.04.

On Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 12:53:40 PM UTC-4 cgc...@gmail.com wrote:

[benjinet]

bumping this, it's not limited to Unbuntu. Mac user here with the same issue.

[Chris Brewer]

Meaning, the issue is with PHP 8.1, but works okay literally with PHP 8.0?

[Chris Brewer]

I can confirm that downgrading from PHP 8.1 to PHP 8.0.19 resolved the installer issues. I followed this post to downgrade: https://medium.com/@skounis/downgrade-php8-1-to-php8-0-or-php7-4-on-ubuntu-22-04-2fab4a6a3be3

[benjinet]

You sir, are my hero. Confirmed working on M1 mac running Monterey with 9.8 and all the latest homebrew packages *except* php. I had to roll back to 7.4, as version 8.0 was still offending.