1 Reply by Retrogen

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Hi,

I blew away Linux Mint and have installed CentOS. The directory layout's look alot more familar than the Ubuntu variant I unstalled. Anyway all seems to be working Okay now. I can update chart of accounts etc from the Setup screen in FA. There is one problem and that is that I can create a new company with the COA that I downloaded(Australian Service Company) but I can't update the exisiting one(used to set-up FA). Is there a way to do this in FA? I would have set it up from scratch in the install, but I only got two COA's to choose from.

Am I going to have to inport the SQL table via phpMyAdmin into the Database that I set-up for Frontaccounting or can I do it from within FA?

Cheers

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2 Reply by Retrogen

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Thanks apmuthu/itronics. I tried renaming .htaccess to x.htaccess and still had no luck. If I click on themes or chart of accounts in set-up it looks like it's trying to fetch the file but then I get the message 'could not open'. In the end I downloaded the chart of accounts sql file into the /frontaccounting/sql directory where all the other chart of accounts are stored and then went into phpadmin and imported the file into the database i had set-up for frontaccounting. The update appears to have completed successfully but when I go into purchase orders in FA I get an SQL error that indicates the column etc hasn't been set-up in the database.

I have decided that seeing as how this machine is going to be a server that Linux Mint is not what I want as it has a lot of packages loaded in there as standard. I am creating the ISO's for CentOS 6.4 ,don't know if there are many people around her using it but most of the forums seem to indicate it is rock-solid and suitable for use as a server. I will take on board what you have said itronics and use the Apache2,PHP etc programs provided with the Distro(assuming they are there).

It would be good if the FA install instructions were a bit more clear about Curl, Xlmp-rpc and OpenSSL needing to be installed. Maybe part of the issue I've had is that I'm trying to use PHP 5.5.3 and MySQL 5.6.11(64 Bit) and FA 2.3 doesn't support it. I have been trying to find a compatibility list on the FA Website but can't find anything. This information is elusive as the Curl etc information, so if anybody could clear this up for me that would be useful.

I haven't used Linux for a long time and it appears that all the Distro's have there own slant on directory etc structures and sometime it's not clear to me whether its the file locations, PHP/MYSQL or Frontaccounting that's got problems. I guess that's one of the problems of being just slightly up from a Linux Newbee.

Cheers,
Peter

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3 Reply by Retrogen

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Hi,

I've installed PHP5-curl and php-xmlpc and edited the php.ini files so that these extensions are started/active. I alos removed the ; for the openssl extension as well.

Phpinfo in Xampp shows the following:

cURL support     enabled
cURL Information     7.30.0
Age     3
Features
AsynchDNS     No
CharConv     No
Debug     No
GSS-Negotiate     No
IDN     No
IPv6     Yes
krb4     No
Largefile     Yes
libz     Yes
NTLM     Yes
NTLMWB     Yes
SPNEGO     No
SSL     Yes
SSPI     No
TLS-SRP     Yes
Protocols     dict, file, ftp, ftps, gopher, http, https, imap, imaps, ldap, ldaps, pop3, pop3s, rtsp, smtp, smtps, telnet, tftp
Host     x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
SSL Version     OpenSSL/1.0.1e
ZLib Version     1.2.8

libXML support     active
libXML Compiled Version     2.8.0
libXML Loaded Version     20800
libXML streams     enabled

So What next. I am still getting the same message saying that it could not open the file?

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4 Topic by Retrogen

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Hi,

I have Linux Mint 15 installed(Ubuntu Version), have installed Apache, PHP and SQL. I have tested Apache and PHP and it all looks good. However when I try to download the chart of accounts or extensions from Set-up in Frontaccounting I get a message saying that it 'couldn't open the files'. It appears that I are unable to access the Frontaccounting website to download the files from set-up. I don't have any problems with http access to websites however I don't know which method it is using to download the files from within the set-up option in Frontaccounting.

I have followed the Frontaccounting install instructions and don't know what the issue is, everything else seems to work fine.

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5 Reply by Retrogen

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Thanks very much for the reply,

The OS is Linux Mint 15 and the Webserver is Apache(didn't know there was anything else). I downloaded the XAMPP(LAMPP) package to install all the essentials. I tested the PHP scripts in XAMPP and all is working well. By default XAMPP places the files in /opt/lampp/htdocs. the WWW directory does not exist under var, because I guess XAMPP hasn't created it. The XAMPP doco and some of the post's I have read all seem to indicate that 3rd party apps go under htdocs. Given that so many people have used LAMPP I can't be the only person that's a bit confused about where frontaccounting or any other 3rd party app needs to go, can I?

The QA's over at the XAMPP forum are not of much use either. They should do something about that to clear up the confusion about where web accessible apps should be placed. The guys over at the mint forum also said that it needs to go under /var/www. Also where do all the Apache files need to go I imagine it's not under /var/www for security reasons?

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6 Topic by Retrogen

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Hello,

I'm new to frontaccountin.I, have downloaded and extracted the TAR into a directory called frontaccounting and am wandering where I go from here. I have read the instructions, which say - 

Enter your_url/account (or whatever directory you entered). This will run the install wizard if this is the first time you run FrontAccounting, setup a drill company and optional populating with initial demo data. You can later on create your own real company. It is a good idea to get familiar with the system before starting your own company. After successfully install, remove or rename your install directory for safety reasons. You don't need it any more.

I have tried entering the URL for the directory into my browser and nothing happens. Isn't there a script or something I need to run.Please note I haven't used Linux in a long time and am getting back into it becasue of Frontaccounting, so the more detail the better for me

Thanks

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