I have always been
hoping the Babel server could be used on open source projects such as those
hosted on SourceForge. I therefore tried to install Babel on SourceForge's
servers. I had a couple of problems.
The first is that
SourceForge do not allow us to create triggers. I have sent an e-mail to
SourceForge to ask for the reason and whether there would be any possibility of
getting such permission. If we can't create triggers then I was wondering
how much effort it would be have a version of Babel that does not use
triggers. I assume the PHP script could invoke the same statements that
would have been done by the trigger. This may be a problem not just at
SourceForge but on other installations on ISP hosted
servers.
I removed the
'create trigger' and 'drop trigger' statements from the setup script and the
script then ran successfully. However, when I try to go to the login page
I get:
An error has been encountered in accessing this page.
1. Server: jmoney.sourceforge.net
2. URL path: /error.php
3. Error notes: NONE
4. Error type: 404
5. Request method: GET
6. Request query string: errNo=101301
Not being very
experienced with PHP and server side issues, I don't know how to debug
this. Searching on the error number shows nothing and I don't even know
where this number comes from. If I navigate directly to the help_babel.php
file then it shows fine. I did not set up an Apache alias so might this be
the problem? (I don't know if SourceForge allows aliases). Could the
absence of the triggers explain this?
Nigel
Westbury
