[PLUGIN] Softaculous for Direct Admin

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Hi,

The Softaculous Team has released Softaculous 1.7.
From this version onwards Softaculous has become available as a PLUGIN for Direct Admin.

To install Softaculous into Direct Admin please follow the Installation instructions:
http://www.softaculous.com/docs/install_direct_admin

We hope users of Direct Admin enjoy Softaculous!
If you have any suggestions/feedback please post them here.

Annoucement Topic:
http://www.softaculous.com/board/index.php?tid=80&title=Softaculous_for_Direct_Admin_and_Version_1.7

Regards,
The Softaculous Team
 
The following were updated:

1) Wordpress -> 2.8.1
2) MediaWiki -> 1.15.0
3) Coppermine -> 1.4.25

They will be updated via CRON.
All are capable of Upgrading previous installations.

Certain Installations were fixed as well:
1) PixelPost
2) PHPCollab
3) NetOffice
4) PHProjekt
5) dotProject

Regards,
The Softaculous Team
 
May I ask why this install script is written in PHP? Since most hosting providers have some PHP functions disabled as shell_exec, init_set etc..

I guess it should better if you make a installer in BASH.
 
or use the -c /path/to/php.ini for each and every call to php to use your own php.ini to bypass any global php.ini.

eg:
Code: 
#!/usr/local/lib/php -c /usr/local/directadmin/plugins/[B]name[/B]/php.ini
John
 
DirectAdmin Support said:
or use the -c /path/to/php.ini for each and every call to php to use your own php.ini to bypass any global php.ini.

eg:
Code: 
#!/usr/local/lib/php -c /usr/local/directadmin/plugins/[B]name[/B]/php.ini
John
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Indeed, thats also possible.

But why if hes using in the PHP script almost only SSH commands, wrote this in PHP and not wrote it in BASH?
 
Well there are many functions that are in PHP hence we use PHP.
We need to load many softaculous function from functions.php and so PHP.
If you see the CODE it requires many PHP functions.

We didnt want to rely on WGET and unzip as some OS of Linux have bugs.
Moreover installation is impossible without the Softaculous Functions and they are in PHP.

Are you having troubles installing Softaculous ?
We will assisst you on this regard.

Please let me know.

Regards,
Alons
 
Ive tried this on my non production server and it worked but i seem to encounter a few errors .

When i try to install eg joomla as a user it keeps telling me that there is an error making the database.

Am i missing something or is this script for reseller/admins only?
 
so is it safe to install on share server?
what about above probelm?
 
nimafire said:
so is it safe to install on share server?
what about above probelm?
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We already have by now 17 installations of Softaculous Running successfully

HanSieT said:
Ive tried this on my non production server and it worked but i seem to encounter a few errors .

When i try to install eg joomla as a user it keeps telling me that there is an error making the database.

Am i missing something or is this script for reseller/admins only?
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Sir, Softaculous uses Direct Admins API. Now the only way to connect to the DA API is via the WEB. As such me decided to use the local IP of 127.0.0.1 instead of the actual server IP to make things Safer.
The only possibility I see is because of a IP Blocker / Firewall restricting Access to 127.0.0.1.
Could you please confirm that there are no IP Blocker / Firewall restricting Access to 127.0.0.1 ?

Regards,
Alons
 
Hi,

The Softaculous Team has updated the following softwares to their respective newer versions:
1) MediaWiki - 1.15.1
2) phpBB - 3.0.5
3) MyBB - 1.4.8
4) Phorum - 5.2.11
5) PunBB - 1.3.4

Scripts will be Automatically Updated by the CRON Job.

Regards,
The Softaculous Team
 
Do you mean that all installed versions of (for example) phpBB will be updated to version 3.0.5?

Or that our Softaculous installations will be updated to install the newest versions?

Jeff
 
Softaculous will update its files on your server.
Then users can upgrade whenever they wanto to!
Emails are generally sent when new versions are available.

Regards,
ALons
 
Can you please make your installation instructions a little bit more clear as I have done it verbatim and it is NOT working for me! I am getting errors when I try to access it through the DA interface

Unable to execute your request

Details

The requested file does not have read or execute permissions
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You run the commands via ssh whats so hard about it?
 
Oh noes!

I think the permissions are wrong in the plugins dir....

chown -R diradmin:diradmin /usr/local/directadmin/plugins/softaculous
 
scsi said:
Oh noes!

I think the permissions are wrong in the plugins dir....

chown -R diradmin:diradmin /usr/local/directadmin/plugins/softaculous
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Had to do that as well, the final thing though was having to make index.raw executable to get it to work.

Anyhow I did a test install of an app and it appears there are a few issues with it connecting to the db
 
softaculous said:
nealdxmhost, What issues are you facing with the App and which app.
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I was doing a test install of Joomla and the install appeared to be going OK but when I went to the location where the install was done it told me that it could not connect to the database.

Anyhow I figure that I would go into the Softaculous control panel as I realized that I forgot to do the settings thing and when I went to edit the configuration setting this is the error that I got:
Code: 
The following Errors were found :

    * Could not locate universal.php at the path you specified

I am presuming there is supposed to be a universal.php file somewhere, just where oh where can I find it????
 
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