[TYPO3-install] Newbie: localconf.php is not found!

[Kenneth Grandchamp]

Hi Michael,

Thanks you're absolutely right ! I've unzipped in a single directory and 
get the 123 tool ! Matthew is right too in the sense that unzipped files 
  and directories don't tend to have the correct unix permissions.

I got several warning messages and figured out I didn't have 777 rights 
in typo3temp and fixed those, but I get this message just before the 123 
tool, do you know what it means ?

Warning: mysql_list_tables(): supplied argument is not a valid 
MySQL-Link resource in /home/www/web/ssai/t3lib/class.t3lib_db.php on 
line 967

Thanks and sorry for being such a lunk, as I did not RTFM properly !

Ken.

Michael Stucki wrote:
> Hi Kenneth,
> 
>> I copied the directories "dummy" and "typo3" of version 4.0.1 to the
>> root of my account and when I run index.php I get :
>>
>> localconf.php is not found!
>>
>> However, localconf.php is in the dummy directory but typo3 can't find it !
> 
> Sounds like you extracted these packages into separate directories :-)
> 
> What you need to do is put them into one folder, having "t3lib" etc. and
> "typo3conf" etc. in the same directory.
> 
>> Why isn't there a step by step installation file explaining how to
>> install the  dummy-4.0.1.zip and typo3_src-4.0.1.zip ? There is no way
>> Typo3 is going to become popular if there is such lousy documentation
>> for the basic install ! It probably would only be a few lines and we
>> don't even get that !
> 
> Apparently you seem to be the first one ever who has this problem, so I
> believe it must be well written in the INSTALL.txt document. Didn't check
> though...
> 
> If you have comments and suggestions, feel free to improve this document, it
> is located somewhere in the Wiki at http://wiki.typo3.org/
> 
> By the way: Since Windows users can't use shared sources (that's why "typo3"
> and "dummy" are splitted) we have recently introduced a new version which
> contains both in one archive. The name of this archive is self-explaining:
> typo3_src+dummy-<version>.zip
> 
> - michael