When is a directory "NOT a directory"?

[Grissom29]

Here's my error if I go with safemode turned off...

The directory you entered was reported as NOT being a directory.
Please check the path!


well the path is /home/www/html/yabbse

it's clearly there, and to prove I'm not crazy, I used the output of pwd to input the value

Suggestions?  

[Douglas]

Can you create a file with the following in it and call it phpinfo.php?

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Save it in notepad, name it phpinfo.php and upload it to your website in ASCII format, come on back and give us a link to it.  We'll help you determine what your actual path is.  

[Grissom29]

http://crashbox.homelinux.org/phpinfo.php

Your going to see that the server root is: /var/www/html

but I have /home on a RAID 5 Array, so I moved the data to /home/www/html and put a symlink at /var/www to point there.

If you do an ls -l of /var/www you will see this:
www -> /home/www

[Douglas]

Aha!  Found your problem.  Your server is running in Safe Mode.  You need to download and install the Safemode package of YSE.

[Grissom29]

I'm the host =(

Running RedHat 8.0 with latest updates

How do I verify this for sure? (not that I doubt you, I want to understand) I see MYsql mentioned in several places.

[[Unknown]]

Okay, here's the problem.

First, you do *not* have safe mode on, but you should check the the directory is chmod'd to 777.

Second, you made another post about MySQL.  Although your PHP Info suggests that it is set up correctly, the mysql_connect function is not defined.  That probably means you need to try recompiling, checking paths, etc. (but, the configure command looks okay... )

-[Unknown]

[Grissom29]

Sorry, I've probably confused things.  In my multiple failures, I tried both standard mode, and safe mode.  Following the few instructions in the readme.html.

I apologize for the confusion.  One post was based on one method, the other post the other method.  I had such a hectic day that I didn't remember to explain from one post to the other, feel free to delete either post.

I'm thinking I'm going to ditch the RedHat rpm's and grab the official versions at this point.  I'll repost if I have troubles after doing this.

Thanks to all for trying.

[[Unknown]]

I'm thinking I'm going to ditch the RedHat rpm's and grab the official versions at this point.  I'll repost if I have troubles after doing this.

I'm willing to agree that this is almost always a good solution, although somewhat annoying.

-[Unknown]

[Grissom29]

I think I tend to try too long with the "official" ones provided by RedHat and their up2date network service.  Often they have changed things, and I'll never understand why they change them to what I consider feature limited vs. feature rich settings.

Thanks again for your time, sorry to have confused the issue.  I look forward to making this work, as I really like the forum and I'm looking to try pfabb (think I got the name wrong though).  It looks like a great system for web publishing for someone like me who's willing to administrate, but just isn't very "creative".