Softaculous is not what it was baked up to be for Dolphin 7
It does appear that many are and were all fired up about the one click installer that was touted by one agent here on the blogs, as if it was the new gold! After many tests, and I mean many, and spending my money to test it, similar to the whole boonex platform, it has been determined this is as a big of piece of crap as the auto-installer was that was released by boonex themselves sometime ago.
Several things, first i do want to say at least softaculous got the whole directory selection straight, which was one issue that seemed to HAUNT the boon boys.
Guys we all know how important the cron jobs are for Dolphin 7 and its infinite processing. Well tested and retested, been reported and ignored. The auto-installer for dolphin 7 does not create cron jobs. Also has some serious issues with the permission settings, insomuch that it is written to setup 777, oh yeah, 777 all over the place. Guess what that gives you ERRORS indeed.
At any rate, i wanted to blog off about this and see what experience others have had with this, as i think its hideous.
Regards,
DosDawg
Old School Installer (no one clicker here)
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Regards,
DosDawg
there is no reason why dolphin cant get a functional installer, and not just from the web, i have seen apps that install from your desktop to the server when you provide credentials.
Regards,
DosDawg
I want to know what is happening on our servers ...
true, true!
but nice knowing there's an auto-installer out there
BuckMcGoo, I believe Wordpress uses a FTP class to set the permissions.
"There as a recent post with a glaring title regarding Softaculous auto-installer issues. I juts wanted to let people know that the info posted there is absolutely wrong and doesn't have anything to do with the facts."
More: http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Hello_2010_04_20
Can anyone share the sources for the auto-installer? Would be curious to see what it's actually made of, and what the facts of the matter are.
Correct me if I am wrong bit isn't Softaculous encrypted with ionCube? If so you would not be able to browse much of the source.
thanks for the write-in. The source is not attainable i wouldnt suspect. Now, in regards to what was stated that my post was absolutely wrong, please see where dolphin_day confirmed this issue, and he is a tech who spends a bit of time on the arvixe servers, and this was reported by him as well to arvixe. prior to the post, it was written in to arvixe support staff by the account owner who we were helping, and brought up the issue with softaculous not creating the cron jobs.
now see more
I am alons , a developer at Softaculous.
DosDawg was right about the permissions error. There had been a communication gap causing all this confusion. When he posted his detailed report on 22.4.2010 (we were not aware of the post and read it on 23rd), we understood what he was referring to and released a PATCH on the 23rd itself.
We take security very seriously, so please dont hesitate to contact us if you find bugs.