Installatron Question

[AlabasterMedia]

I am a customer of a webhosting company that uses DA. I am a frequent user of the Installatron and have just stumbled upon Joomla, content management systems. I refered to the Joomla manual and I it says I need the following installed on my server in order for it to work and for me to contact my hosting service if it is not installed yet.

A. PHP
B. Zlib
C. XML

What I am wondering is....who controls the installatron and decides what scripts will be on the updated versions? But most importantly, why does DA provide scripts on the iTron that is not compatible with the system requirements of the hosting service? Or am I getting this wrong....how does this work? Bottom line, its frustrating to try and install a script and find my server does not have all the requirements in the first place? Im confused, tired and I don't even know if I am being articulate enough here.

 

[rocketcity]

Chances are very strong that the 3 items you listed are already seutp on the server as most all are setup with these programs. One way to test this is to create and upload a info.php page to your site and access it from the web to see what php items are installed on the server.

To create this page, open "Text Document" (for PC's) or "TextEdit" (on a Mac) on your computer enter the following code to the file and save it as info.php (or any other name you want as long as it has the .php tag at the end)

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

FTP the file to your "public_html" folder on the server. You access the file from a web browser eg.. http://yourdomain.com/info.php

Installatron is not a product of Direct Admin. It is a "plugin" that can be purchased separately and installed by the hosting company as a add on / convenience tool for it's customers.

Chances are, every program provided to you as a customer via Installatron by your hosting company will work with out any problem. I have not used one yet that did not work "out of the box".

 

[pucky]

I am a customer of a webhosting company that uses DA. I am a frequent user of the Installatron and have just stumbled upon Joomla, content management systems. I refered to the Joomla manual and I it says I need the following installed on my server in order for it to work and for me to contact my hosting service if it is not installed yet.

A. PHP
B. Zlib
C. XML

What I am wondering is....who controls the installatron and decides what scripts will be on the updated versions? But most importantly, why does DA provide scripts on the iTron that is not compatible with the system requirements of the hosting service? Or am I getting this wrong....how does this work? Bottom line, its frustrating to try and install a script and find my server does not have all the requirements in the first place? Im confused, tired and I don't even know if I am being articulate enough here.

I dont think anyone here can help you. Why dont you ask your service provider? Obviously every system setup is different. If they are deploying applications and not accounting for its requirements then you should inform them off it and sort it out with them.