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Stuck on install - "Could not load inflector rules file" and "Could not connect to the database"

nselikoff — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:11:44 +0200

Hello,

I'm very interested in Akelos as a possible PHP framework for my next project, but I'm having a heck of a time getting past the first few steps in the booklink tutorial.

I'm on a Mac, OS X Leopard, with Apache, PHP 5.2.6, and MySQL (I'm not using MAMP).

I used svn to checkout Akelos, verified that Akelos could find php, and ran the setup script to create the booklink directory and symbolic link. I had to add FollowSymLinks to my /etc/apache2/users/user.conf file because I was getting a 403 error initially. I created the databases and granted the proper permissions.

When I point my browser to http://localhost/booklink, I see a bunch of errors, backtraces, and warnings.

The first one is this:
(User Error) Could not load inflector rules file: config/inflector.yml

Then a bunch of warnings:
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /Volumes/Data/Websites/akelos/lib/AkActionView/AkHelperLoader.php on line 74
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /Volumes/Data/Websites/akelos/lib/AkActionView/AkHelperLoader.php on line 76
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /Volumes/Data/Websites/akelos/lib/AkActionView/AkHelperLoader.php on line 78
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /Volumes/Data/Websites/akelos/lib/AkActionView.php on line 113
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /Volumes/Data/Websites/akelos/lib/AkActionView.php on line 226

Then more errors related to write permissions and locale files, which I was able to fix by running the following commands in my akelos directory (not in my booklink directory)

sudo chown -R www .
sudo chmod -R g+rw .

Another thread suggested running ./script/configure -i, which I assume should be run from the booklink directory. When I run this script, after inserting the correct database name, type, user, and password, I receive the following error:
Could not connect to the database

I appreciate your help.

-Nathan

Stuck on install - "Could not load inflector rules file" and "Could not connect to the database"

kkrzyzak — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:59:57 +0200

Hi Nathan,
All I can tell you, that I'm running akelos on my Mac (10.5.7) on MAMP - php 5.2.6 too, and mysql (as well as sqlite) - and I haven't got any problems - so try to install MAMP

Stuck on install - "Could not load inflector rules file" and "Could not connect to the database"

nselikoff — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:11:19 +0200

Hi kkrzyzak,

Thanks for the reply. I installed and tried MAMP, but am getting the same errors as above (after starting from scratch on the booklink tutorial).

-Nathan

Stuck on install - "Could not load inflector rules file" and "Could not connect to the database"

nselikoff — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:11:10 +0200

OK, after playing with it for a bit longer I got it to work.

As described in this thread I had to create a symlink from MAMP to the "typical" location of the MySQL socket file

sudo mkdir /var/mysql
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock

This was the ONLY way I could get the ./script/configure -i script to work correctly without giving me a database connection error, and I still saw the errors listed above when trying to use the "web installer".

According to the other threads I've seen, manually changing 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1' in the config/database.yml file is also an option, though this would require foregoing the use of the configure script.

I have a few suggestions to the developers for making this process easier for others:

Either fix the web installer so that it can be used for the initial configuration without seeing any errors, or remove it and force the use of ./script/configure -i (changing the wording in the booklink tutorial and in /script/setup)
Edit the configure script to ask for a socket location if the "typical" settings aren't allowing a connection to mysql. This socket location could be written into the database.yml file, as it seems from other threads that you used to be able to specify a non-standard socket in config.php, but now all of those parameters have been moved into database.yml.

Hope this helps someone else trying to give Akelos a shot!

-Nathan

Stuck on install - "Could not load inflector rules file" and "Could not connect to the database"

Oliver — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:10:31 +0100

As described in this thread I had to create a symlink from MAMP to the "typical" location of the MySQL socket file

Under Snow Leopard, I set the following symlink:

$ sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /usr/local/mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686

However, I still have the same issue as described by Nathan in the initial post.

Anyone has another idea how I could fix this?

Stuck on install - "Could not load inflector rules file" and "Could not connect to the database"

Oliver — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:27:37 +0100

Under Snow Leopard, I set the following symlink:

$ sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /usr/local/mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686

However, I still have the same issue as described by Nathan in the initial post.

Yay, I GOT IT WORK!

I had to set the following symlink (instead of what I did before):

$ sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /private/tmp/mysql.sock

This seems to be the new location of the mysql.sock under Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)

Stuck on install - "Could not load inflector rules file" and "Could not connect to the database"

Oliver — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:06:04 +0100

A helpful address when dealing with MAMP's MySQL on Mac OS X:

http://fischerlaender.net/apple-mac/mac-os-x-trouble-with-mamp-mysql