[TYPO3-install] upgrading 3.7.0 to 4.0.2, paths messed, localconf.php not found

[Michael Gabriel]

nm, found the problem
installer totally messes up if you call it through the original folder url
and NOT through the symlinks ...
found atleast 20 posts with a similar problem, the installer should really
detect that ...

On 11/14/06, Michael Stucki <michael at typo3.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> how do your symlinks look? Can you please post the output of
>
> ls -l /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/
> ls -l /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/typo3_src/
>
> - michael
>
> > im trying to upgrade a 3.7.0 install to 4.0.2
> > after unpacking and adjusting the symlinks, the install tool keeps
> telling
> > me that the localconf.php aint found.
> > after investigating a bit i found that the path detecting is doing weird
>
> > things
> > all the tutorials(even those updated to v4) still show it possible to
> > extract typo3 into the web folder. but the install tool doenst seem to
> > understand that !?!?!?!
> >
> > /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/typo3_src/typo3conf/:
> > PATH_typo3conf /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/typo3_src/:
> > PATH_site /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/typo3_src/typo3/:
> > PATH_typo3 typo3/: TYPO3_mainDir
> >
> /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/typo3_src/typo3/install/index.php:
> > PATH_thisScript
> >
> > thisScript is right an ok. then init.php does strip install/ from the
> > MOD_PATH
> >
> > and then the mainDir
> > define('PATH_site', substr(PATH_typo3,0,-strlen(TYPO3_mainDir)));    //
> > Abs. path to directory with the frontend (one above the admin-dir)
> >
> > so that still leaves me in the typo3_src folder and NOT in the httpdocs
> > where the typo3conf is located !?!?!?
>
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