Missing Menu in Setup Manager

[Donna]

Having tinkered and prodded the test download to death, I downloaded and installed from scratch in the 'real' directory. All went swimmingly, until I logged into the Setup Manager - no menu, so can't set prefs etc.

Logging out and then back in makes 0 difference.
Obviously I can't get into the Event Manager to see if there's a similar problem as it needs dbase info ...

Neither php nor apache are generating any error msgs so assume all files are being found okay. Tried adding /path/to/calendar to the php_value include_path but made no difference. Any ideas on where I should look?

[Brian]

Have you tried reloading the files in the Setup directory? (Especially menu.php and possibly index.php).

[Donna]

Sorry - I don't understand what you mean by 'reloading'.

Re http://my.domain/calendar/setup/index.php, I've tried:
- clearing the cache, closing the browser and restarting
- shift+reload (a million times)
- Opera, Konqueror, Mozilla, Firefox, Lynx don't show the menu
- last-resort-broken-browser IE doesn't either

Re http://my.domain/calendar/setup/menu.php:
I don't think this is meant to be accessed directly.
Anyway, all I get is this: "Invalid Access - 1" at the top of a blank page.

If I look at the source, I can see where menu.php is not being included,
compared to my test install. It's really not there!
Here are the relevant lines for your perusal:

No-menu page:
<td align="center" valign="top" class="smallText" width="150" bgcolor="#F4EECA"></td>

Works-just-fine page:
<td align="center" valign="top" class="smallText" width="150" bgcolor="#F4EECA"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="menuBox">

[Brian]

Sorry, I should have said "uploading" the file again to the server.

[Donna]

Just unzipped calendar.zip again into a tmp dir and ran diff on ./tmp/calendar/setup/ and my-domain/calendar/setup/.
diff sez all files are the same.

Nevertheless, overwrote all files in my-domain/calendar/setup/ with the contents of ./tmp/calendar/setup/

Made absolutely no difference whatsoever - still no menu.

[Brian]

Is there a way I can take a shot at FTPing the files up to the server?

[Donna]

Don't think so - am working on my devel server here at home,
and we are fire-walled to hell and back. Not ecstatic about making holes in it either :(

But I could tar up the whole thing and upload to somewhere if you'd like?
It's pretty small just now as no content yet, am just working on templates.

[Brian]

What program are you using to unzip?

[Donna]

unzip --version

UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Info-ZIP. Maintained by C. Spieler. Send
bug reports using http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html; see README for details.

Besides which, this doesn't make any sense.
If I could download and successfully run the trial version, and in fact it still runs just fine, and things only went pear-shaped after downloading the 2nd time and obtaining a license key, then my guess is that something went wrong at that point.

[Brian]

Are the trial version and the new version you've downloaded the same version number?

[Donna]

aha! the plot thickens!

find . -name "*.*" | xargs grep "ersion" | less
trial version: ./config.inc.php:$epcCheckVersion="6.3.05";
2nd time: . ./config.inc.php:$epcCheckVersion="";

now why should this be so?

[Brian]

You've never logged into the Setup Manager (successfully) so that should be blank...

Try adding this to the address after logging in:

index.php?menuSelect=1

[Brian]

The code to display the menu is:

<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" class="smallText" width="150" bgcolor="#F4EECA"><?php require("menu.php"); ?></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">

Not sure why it doesn't...

I'm going to be gone for a bit. I'll look at this again in the morning.

[Donna]

Sorry - adding "?menuSelect=1" made no difference whatsoever.
btw, I've turned off all re-writing rules etc etc

[Brian]

Can you try copying the files in the setup directory from the other working installation?

[Donna]

Fixed it. You gave me the clue in your post "The code to display the menu is:"
The problem was that you have a line in your code:
<?php require("menu.php"); ?>
which I couldn't read as it was encoded.

... and I have exactly the same line in mine, but the code only executes on a fn call.

so poor old apache was Doing The Right Thing, finding and delivering 'menu.php' -- except it was the wrong one. And of course nothing was being displayed 'cos there was no fn call ...

I've changed the name of my file to 'springtop-menu.php' and all is well.

There's a moral in here somewhere about closed-source software ....