Error while installing 1.4.4

[DariusClay]

Ok, so I've been playing around today installing Prestashop version 1.4.4 on my localhost (using WampServer version 2.1) and just could not get past step 2.

 

I've found the cause and a quick fix in case someone else comes across the same problem. Basically the configuration tests were failing while checking to see if directories were writable. Reviewing the apache error logs it was giving results like below (where mysite.com is the name of the folder where PrestaShop is located, and mysite.loc is the server name of the virtual host) :

 

[Fri Jul 29 19:53:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning:  filetype() [<a href='function.filetype'>function.filetype</a>]: Lstat failed for D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\install/../translations/itpdf.php in D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\classes\\ConfigurationTest.php on line 113, referer: http://www.mysite.loc/install/
[Fri Jul 29 19:53:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Stack trace:, referer: http://www.mysite.loc/install/
[Fri Jul 29 19:53:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP   1. {main}() D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\install\\model.php:0, referer: http://www.mysite.loc/install/
[Fri Jul 29 19:53:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP   2. include_once() D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\install\\model.php:71, referer: http://www.mysite.loc/install/
[Fri Jul 29 19:53:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP   3. ConfigurationTestCore::check() D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\install\\xml\\checkConfig.php:67, referer: http://www.mysite.loc/install/
[Fri Jul 29 19:53:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP   4. ConfigurationTestCore::run() D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\classes\\ConfigurationTest.php:34, referer: http://www.mysite.loc/install/
[Fri Jul 29 19:53:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP   5. call_user_func() D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\classes\\ConfigurationTest.php:40, referer: http://www.mysite.loc/install/
[Fri Jul 29 19:53:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP   6. ConfigurationTestCore::test_translations_dir() D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\classes\\ConfigurationTest.php:40, referer: http://www.mysite.loc/install/
[Fri Jul 29 19:53:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP   7. ConfigurationTestCore::test_dir() D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\classes\\ConfigurationTest.php:194, referer: http://www.mysite.loc/install/
[Fri Jul 29 19:53:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP   8. ConfigurationTestCore::test_dir() D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\classes\\ConfigurationTest.php:114, referer: http://www.mysite.loc/install/
[Fri Jul 29 19:53:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP   9. filetype() D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\classes\\ConfigurationTest.php:113, referer: http://www.mysite.loc/install/

 

It gets down to the root cause : the php function filetype() failed in classes/ConfigurationTest.php on line 113. Still not sure why perhaps the parameter it was being passed is a mix between absolute and relative paths (D:\\wamp\\sites\\mysite.com\\install/../translations/itpdf.php), but the function is_dir() works perfectly.

 

It's a quick fix though, just change line 113 from this

if (@filetype($dir.$file) == 'dir' AND $file != '.' AND $file != '..')

 

to this

 

if ($file != '.' AND $file != '..' AND @is_dir($dir.$file))

 

Rerun the install script and goes thru smoothly

[olea]

You should post in the bugtracker

[DariusClay]

Just did, thanks for the tip...