[ryh]

Hello

Could anybody tell me if IPF can do something like this:

1. Prompt for MySQL host,user,password during installation.
2. Paste it to config file (for example, replacing custom tags like ###HOST###, ###USER###, ###PASSWORD###).
3. Send config file to server along with other files.

Now I have to send config file to server and chmod it to 777 in order to change it via post install script (post install script runs as apache, but files send via FTP as account user). When post install script ends I give an alert to change permissions to 755 for safety reasons.

The best solution would be to do it on the local machine during instalation and send ready-to-use config file.

Thank in advance for your reply J

[liaison]

You can specify configuration files that are to be edited by the end user, and during installation the installer lets the user edit the configuration files, make their changes, and then the installer automatically uploads the file. Also, if the end user reruns the installer, the installer will take the user directly to the configuration section again, skipping over the installation step as that had already completed, and allowing them to edit the configuration file just as if it were local and then automatically reupload it.

There isn't a feature yet for prompting for custom fields but this is on the list of possible future features.

For the best user experience you might consider not handling database setup this way at all, and to provide the end user with a web based configurator. The installer can change the permissions to make a directory writable by the web server, and a web configurator can the create files either directly in the 777 folder or in a subfolder of the 777 directory so that the parent folder of the configuration files will also be owned by the web server. Web based configuration and initial database setup can be very slick, works for users that have not used the installer as well as those who have, and gives the user an effective way to change details in the future, recreate the database if they need to etc.
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