ModernBill 4 and MB 5 Install problems

[Steve Richards]

How in gods name are you spous to install MB on any Plesk server?

you cant use Zend, why cuz Plesk wont bother to load it

you cant use open bas dir because it takes half a year to find and changes the right files to make it so it will fully meet the requirements to install MB

and from the forums, no real support exists for Plesk unless you pay for it

I was going to use MB to resell Plesk, but how can i if Plesk wants to stop me from using the program i want to use to sell Plesk with?

Anyone ?

I've searched hi and low and no definative answear

Im running Plesk 8.0.1, php 5.0.4

 

[crossconnect]

All the required PHP settings (eg. open_basedir) are listed in the ModernBill documentation. Create the domain for your MB install in Plesk and then configure these settings in the <pleskdomaindir>/conf/vhost.conf and <pleskdomaindir>/conf/vhost_ssl.conf files. You might want to create a PHP script like this:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

This will output all the PHP settings in your current configuration and so you can use this to check that your settings are OK before starting the MB install.

By the way, your open_basedir setting should be "none" - this will allow your MB install to access everything. Zend should also be able to install without any problems, but you'll have to do this manually and not through Plesk. If you're not able to do this use the ionCube version of ModernBill.

 

[Steve Richards]

been there, done that

the question is, why does Plesk have to be such a pain to do this

Why cant Swsoft create little admin buttons to install it for us, better yet, install it with the server for us so we dont have to mess about playing with vconf's and all that

I've spent days trying to set up MB to work, it just wont with Plesks completly differnt ideas on what it wants to do

as for zend, its installe,d phpinfo picks it up, but MB install wont

ioncube, Zend, its more playing and tinkering that i have to waste time trying to get to work when i should be spending time, promoting how good the webhosting and how good plesk is, but alas not

 

[phoenixisp]

While MB can be a pain to setup, it works flawlessly with Plesk. Are you sure you downloaded the right version of MB - they have a Zend and an Ioncube version.

 

[Steve Richards]

its in a subdomain, and tried all that, it still wont remove the open_base_dir

 

[crossconnect]

The parameter is open_basedir and not open_base_dir

 

[Steve Richards]

mistake typed here, its correcnt in the vhost.conf

 

[phoenixisp]

Are you using the httpdocs directory or httpsdocs? If you are using httpsdocs you must have the open_basdir argument in the file vhost_ssl.conf

 

[Steve Richards]

httpdocs

 

[phoenixisp]

If you are going to receive credit card information and the like using MB it should be installed in httpsdocs for security - at least IMO...

 

[Steve Richards]

not being rude, were not discussing the security, were discussing the open_basedir problem with plesk

 

[phoenixisp]

My Modernbill works just fine - good luck with yours.