Hi there,

First of all, sorry for the late reply (especially important considering your prompt reply and the accurateness of your oppinions, ...) I have not replied before because I was gathering more information trying to make sure it was not my fault (therefore, not bothering you, ...)

I checked the PHP configuration of php.ini according to INSTALL.verbose and everything was fine! I made 1,000 attempts to create a new user (my first user) always through "New User via SSL" and it always failed as I told you in my first msg.

Since my computer is not currently connected to any net (that I am using to make some experiments before I move Savane to the laboratory) I have tried Sylvain's suggestions configuring Savane to run on "localhost.localdomain" which should be understood as a fqdn. And it worked!!!!!!

I have been also able to create the administration project (though I cannot access it by now, ... but those are other business, now I am just having fun with this :)

Thanks a lot Sylvain and Mathieu for your prompt replies. Thanks to the whole team for the so-goooood job!!!

Carlos,

"A simple question: Can we register the new user from
an SQL terminal?"

Possible but not recommended (there are several things to think about when doing so, more than what we'd like to document; installation is a good time to find out glitches that is best avoiding users to encounter)

Hi there,

I am a Professor at the University "Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)" and I thought it would be great to have Savannah at the University for the students ---as a matter of fact, I am a GNU volunteer at savannah (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sal).

So I started installing savane at the University Lab. However, I have actually ran into trouble. Right now, everything seems also ok, but I am not able to create the first user account :(

After following the INSTALL.verbose file point by point, I got the following message when going into the new Savane homepage:

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Installation incomplete: you must now create for yourself a user account. once it is done, you will have to login and register the local administration project;
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However, I am not able to figure out what that means :( I have created a new Unix user and group "anoncvs" which belongs to the existing Unix group "admin" (according to the following line of savannah.conf.pl):

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our $sys_unix_group_name="admin";
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Next, I have tried to loggin via "New User via SSL" with a new user named "clinares" through my new Savane installation. I do receive the e-mail requesting me to visit the new page (i.e., http://io/projects/account/verify.php?confirm_hash=a9a564ace1ca7b90) and when I do and type in the login and password again at the new location I do always get the same error:

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Required login: in order to view this page, you must be logged in;
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I have checked the new entry appears at my database and that's file. I have also checked that I got no strange mails from the binaries at /usr/local/bin installed by Savane, and they seem to run smoothly also. What's the problem?

Huh, ... just one thing. I have not installed SSH. On the other hand, I have not set up a HTTPS Apache server (I am running version 2.0). Is that strictly necessary?

Thanks in advance for your help and congratulations FOR THE GREAT WORK!!!

Carlos Linares,

I have been installed savane in my Debian Server. Apparently all is Ok but, when I try to create a user account through the web user interface (using the option "New User Via SSL") I always get the following error:

"Duplicate post: this form was already submitted"

Any ideas?