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Hello all,

I tried installing Kiwitrees version 3.1.1 on a server running PHP 5.6.8

I got the following error message:

Warning: require_once[Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/sdb/b/5/lovelock/test/kiwitrees/includes/session.php on line 141

Fatal error: require_once[]: Failed opening required ‘Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php’ [include_path=’/var/www/sdb/b/5/lovelock/include:.:/usr/php5/lib/php’] in /var/www/sdb/b/5/lovelock/test/kiwitrees/includes/session.php on line 141

The kiwitrees sources are installed under:
/var/www/sdb/b/5/lovelock/test/kiwitrees

It seems that session.php is looking for Autoloader.php in the directory /var/www/sdb/b/5/lovelock/include
whereas it should be looking for it in
/var/www/sdb/b/5/lovelock/test/kiwitrees/library/Zend/Loader/

which seems to imply that WT_ROOT is not being evaluated correctly.

James

jamesl wrote:

which seems to imply that WT_ROOT is not being evaluated correctly.

That would be correct.

Just above the reported error line (line 141 in /includes/session.php) you will find this line:

set_include_path[WT_ROOT.’library’.PATH_SEPARATOR.get_include_path());

That is an essential part of the kiwitrees requirements. On the rare occasions this problem has occurred in the past it was due to the server being incorrectly configured to have the function “set_include_path()” disabled. You need to enable that, or get the web host to enable it.

Interestingly, the only time I’ve come across this before was from users of a French hosting site (Not sure which one): https://www.webtrees.net/index.php/en/forum/28-aide-pour-ver-1-3-derniere-version/24327-version-1-3#25358

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

Thanks for the reply Nigel, you put your finger on the problem.

I was trying to use a beta installation of PHP 5.6.8 on free.fr (not my personal web site) and there is a list of functions which are not supported/de-activated, which includes set_include_path(). I’ll just have to hope that this restriction will be removed in the final release. I don’t suppose there’s a workaround I could use until if and when the restriction is removed? (For example hard-coding the value of WT_ROOT)

James

jamesl wrote:

I don’t suppose there’s a workaround I could use until if and when the restriction is removed? (For example hard-coding the value of WT_ROOT)

Yes, not a great idea, but workable of you remeber you did it!

Look for a line starting “define WT_ROOT……………………” somewhere above the line 141 mentioned in the erorr message and change it to whatever you need. You might need to experiment a little to get the right syntax (Im not near a PC to help with that just now).

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

I tried this and the execution got a bit further, but the fell over with the following error:

Warning: call_user_func[] expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, class ‘Zend_Loader’ not found in /var/www/sdb/b/5/lovelock/test/kiwitrees/library/Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php on line 481

Warning: call_user_func[] expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, class ‘Zend_Loader’ not found in /var/www/sdb/b/5/lovelock/test/kiwitrees/library/Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php on line 481

Fatal error: Class ‘Zend_Controller_Request_Http’ not found in /var/www/sdb/b/5/lovelock/test/kiwitrees/setup.php on line 99

Line 481 in Autoloader.php reads:
call_user_func($callback, $class);

I doubt if it’s worth pursuing this any further.

James

jamesl wrote:

II doubt if it’s worth pursuing this any further.

I agree. You are heading towards disabling protective elements of the code.

I’m not a fan of free web hosting sites, nor many of the really cheap ones. Not, IMHO, suitable platforms for storing sensitive / private data, though I do realize you are only testing something. I also tend to follow the cliche ” you get what you pay for”.
You would probably be better doing any testing on a locally installed web server (on your own desktop). I have used xampp and aamp for this, and believe wamp is also good. All can be found through Google and installed fairly easily. My current preference is aamp. It seems the easiest to install.

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

You would probably be better doing any testing on a locally installed web server (on your own desktop).

I already have kiwitrees running on my desktop computer (iMac with Mac OS X running PHP 5.5 on an Apache web server), and also on my personal site (loveluck.net/kiwitrees), hosted by OVH. On free.fr I’ve been managing, with a fellow researcher, a web site for an (unofficial) one-name study of the Lovelock surname. Up to now we’ve been using an old version of PhpGedView (4.1.7) running on PHP 5.1.3, which is increasingly problematic, given the lack of support. When I discovered that Free were planning to support PHP 5.6 I thought it would be an opportunity to move to Kiwitreees, but it seems that it isn’t that simple! I’m going to recommend to my fellow researcher that we move to another web hosting service (maybe kiwitrees?))

James

jamesl wrote:

I’m going to recommend to my fellow researcher that we move to another web hosting service (maybe kiwitrees?))

Sounds like a good plan to me 🙂

But worth noting that the advantage (I believe) of hosting at kiwitrees.net as that you will never again have to worry about installing or updating kiwitrees itself, or PHP. That frees you to focus solely on your family history efforts. But some people actually want the “fun” of managing their own web systems!!!

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info