Help with installation

Nacho

Dear All:
We are working on the Dédalo installation for an oral history archive of Club San Lorenzo.

We were guided by the instructions on the web page, however when we want to run the program as point 8 says (Run Dédalo into the browser. Like http://localhost/dedalo)

We get the following message in the browser: https://tinypic.host/i/error.uB4KK

Although it says that the error is due to cookies, they were restored and the problem continues.

I understand that it must be some problem in the configuration, but I can not find it.

I must clarify that I am not an expert in programming, but I am learning as I do.

Any help you can give me will be more than welcome.

Thank you very much already!

Nacho

Tincho

Nacho Hola Nacho, mi nombre es Martin, estamos en cataluña y en mi empresa estamos intentando obtener informacion para implementar Dédalo, estamos muy perdidos, podrias orientarnos almenos en los requisitos que debemos cumplir para hacerlo funcionar? o almenos documentacion para una correcta instalacion?. gracias

Alex

Dear Nacho

Seem that you have Apache virtualHosts DocumentRoot property is pointed to the ../dedalo directory instead the ../httpdocs directory. In default installation the DocumentRoot need to be pointed to /var/www/ (or your own web path).
All the paths in Dédalo are referenced to the top "dedalo" directory and it need to be accesible by the http requests. For ex:

Wrong version:
http://localhost/lib/dedalo

Correct version:
http://localhost/dedalo/lib/dedalo

In other words;/dedalo/lib/dedalo directories need to be accessible by browser.

I hope it will be clear.
Best

Nacho

Alex
First of all, thanks for answering and for the help.

I tried to follow the instructions you gave me, and now when I try to enter I get HTTP ERROR 500

I think I have the errors in the config4.

This is how I have the main vars configured:

# DEDALO 4 MAIN VARS
define('DEDALO_HOST',			$_SERVER['http://archivocasla.com.ar/'] );
define('DEDALO_PROTOCOL',		(isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS']==='on') ? 'https://' : 'http://');

# Dedalo paths
define('DEDALO_ROOT',			dedalo(lib(dedalo(__FILE__))));
define('DEDALO_ROOT_WEB',		explode('/lib/', $_SERVER["http://historiaoral.archivocasla.com.ar/"])[0]);
define('DEDALO_LIB_BASE_PATH',	lib( dedalo(__FILE__) ));
define('DEDALO_LIB_BASE_URL',	http://historiaoral.archivocasla.com.ar/ . '/' .c2030171_dedalo(dirname(DEDALO_LIB_BASE_PATH)) . '/'. c2030171_dedalo(DEDALO_LIB_BASE_PATH) );
define('DEDALO_EXTRAS_PATH',	DEDALO_LIB_BASE_PATH .'/extras');

# Dedalo information
define('DEDALO_SALT_STRING',	'dedalo_cuatro');


    # TIME ZONE : Time zone for backups archive names
define('DEDALO_TIMEZONE',		'Europe/Madrid');	date_default_timezone_set(DEDALO_TIMEZONE);

    # SET LOCALE (Spanish for example)
// setlocale(LC_ALL,'es_ES');		// For Mac
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'es_ES.utf8');	// For Linux

I know I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what it is.

Thank you!
Nacho

Alex

Hi Nacho

Mainly you don't need to change the default main vars in config4.php:

# DEDALO 4 MAIN VARS
define('DEDALO_HOST',			$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] );
define('DEDALO_PROTOCOL',		(isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS']==='on') ? 'https://' : 'http://');

# Dedalo paths
define('DEDALO_ROOT',			dirname(dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)))));
define('DEDALO_ROOT_WEB',		explode('/lib/', $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"])[0]);

define('DEDALO_LIB_BASE_PATH',	dirname( dirname(__FILE__) ));
define('DEDALO_LIB_BASE_URL',	DEDALO_ROOT_WEB . '/'. basename(dirname(DEDALO_LIB_BASE_PATH)) . '/'. basename(DEDALO_LIB_BASE_PATH) );

define('DEDALO_EXTRAS_PATH',	DEDALO_LIB_BASE_PATH .'/extras');

# Dedalo information
define('DEDALO_SALT_STRING',	'dedalo_cuatro');

# TIME ZONE : Time zone for backups archive names
define('DEDALO_TIMEZONE',		'Europe/Madrid');	date_default_timezone_set(DEDALO_TIMEZONE);
# SET LOCALE (Spanish for example)
// setlocale(LC_ALL,'es_ES');		// For Mac
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'es_ES.utf8');	// For Linux

The only constant that you should change in main vars, and for security reasons' is DEDALO_SALT_STRING, change it for any other string, because this constant is used to encrypt data, and the default value is public.
from:
define('DEDALO_SALT_STRING', 'dedalo_cuatro');
to something like:
define('DEDALO_SALT_STRING', 'my_secret_string_for_myProject_in_2022');

Usually, the constants you have to focus on changing in config4.php are:

DEDALO_ENTITY with a tld (like your main domain like 'archivocasla')
DEDALO_ENTITY_LABEL free text 'Archivo Casla'
DEDALO_APPLICATION_LANGS with your project langs
DEDALO_APPLICATION_LANGS_DEFAULT
DEDALO_DATA_LANG_DEFAULT
DEDALO_PROJECTS_DEFAULT_LANGS

The other constants can be left with the default values.

I hope this is clear.

Best

Nacho

Okay. I restored the config4 file with the recommendations you gave me. Thanks for that.

Is it possible that all the conflict is due to configurations of the server that I am using?

I pointed the subdomain at dedalo/lib/dedalo, but maybe it's a permissions conflict that I'm not seeing.

I will keep trying and investigating.

Sorry for the inconvenience and congratulations for Dedalo. It's a very cool tool and I like so much.

Nacho

Alex

Hi Nacho

I don't know what server kind are you using to install Dédalo, but if the server is a Ubuntu or RedHat... you will not have problems to install it (more than typical problems to install any other CMS ;-) ).

Reading your last post about your subdomain config, maybe I was not clear when I said the you need to point the DocumentRoot to /var/www/, let me explain with ex:

Wrong:

DocumentRoot "/var/www/dedalo"
DocumentRoot "/var/www/dedalo/lib/dedalo"

Correct:

DocumentRoot "/var/www"

The vhosts need to pointed to outside directory to bring access to full Dédalo path in your browser:

http://localhost/dedalo/lib/dedalo

If your vhost point to any directory within Dédalo path, the browser will not be able to load the Dédalo structure and will throw errors.

Wrong:

DocumentRoot "/var/www/dedalo"

get as result:

http://localhost/lib/dedalo

Doing that browser can not access to full path: /dedalo/lib/dedalo

Clear?

Best

Alex

Hi Tincho

I answer you in the other post...

@Julián could you help Tincho to install Dédalo? (in a profesional way?)

Best

Julián

Alex I'll look into it. Thanks!