[CDash] Clean install of CDash 2.4.0

[Zack Galbreath]

I'm sorry to hear that you didn't have a smooth experience attempting to
install CDash.  I just updated the installation instructions here:

http://public.kitware.com/Wiki/CDash:Installation

Please let us know if you encounter any more problems.


On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 7:27 AM, Matějů Miroslav, Ing. <
Mateju.Miroslav at azd.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was going to launch a new private instance of CDash by clean installing
> the most recent release 2.4.0. However, I was not able to get it working
> using the instructions on the web pages https://www.cdash.org/download/
> and http://public.kitware.com/Wiki/CDash:Installation.
>
> There are multiple issues on the Download page:
>
> 1. The file config. php is placed in 'config' subfolder rather than
> 'cdash'.
>
> 2. The keyword 'table' in relation to SQL should be probably replaced by
> 'database'.
>
> 3. It is not specified which directory should be visible to the web
> server. I tried:
>
>    a. the top directory (CDash) and got a Forbidden page in the web
> browser;
>
>    b. the 'public' directory (CDash/public) where several *.php files are
> located. When trying to load the main page (http://cdashsrv.local/cdash/),
> the web browser was redirected to viewProjects.php and showed a blank page.
> I tried to guess the right location and opened install.php manually but it
> renders a blank page, too.
>
> In order to resolve this problem, I checked the PHP source codes in the
> 'public' directory and they contain lines like:
>
> require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/config/config.php';
> include_once 'include/common.php';
>
> Well, shouldn't they point to ../config or ../include since we are in a
> subdirectory?
>
>
> Due to this confusion, I decided to get the previous, hopefully mature
> release 2.2 but found that it is not available to download. It is missing
> in the list http://public.kitware.com/Wiki/CDash:Installation#
> Previous_versions_of_CDash where the newest listed version is 2.0.2 which
> I am currently using.
>
>
> Could you please resolve the problems on the website and point me to valid
> install instructions?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
>
> Ing. Miroslav Matějů
> Programmer Analyst
>
> AŽD Praha s.r.o.
> Technology Division
> Research and Development
> Žirovnická 2/3146, 106 17  Prague
> Czech Republic
> Phone: +420 267 287 476
> Web: www.azd.cz
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