Installation Issues.

SCF Folks:

Having read your papers on SCF, I was hoping to evaluate your system - it may have some ideas that we'd like to pursue in our work.

Ran into a couple of problems installing on OS X (10.6.2).

I installed the tarball from the download page. Worked well, but complained vociferously about the deprecation of ereg and a few other PHP issues that might need to be addressed.

Having gotten the whole thing up and running, it seems like many of the links are broken. In fact, I can't find any link on the main page - logout, user, admin, etc. - that works at all.

Any idea what's up? I'm sure I could dig in and figure out the problem if I took the time, but I'd rather not dig in that far, particularly if there's an obvious permissions problem.

That said, a broader question - what's the status of SCF? Is development ongoing? Any plans for a new release?

Thanks,

Harry Hochheiser
Biomedical Informatics, U. Pittsburgh

Hi Harry, The issues you're

Hi Harry,

The issues you're experiencing are due to your version of PHP. Drupal 6 does not support PHP 5.3 (though Drupal 7 will). I would recommend to downgrade to PHP 5.2.x which is what most of the Drupal sites are running on. I'm on Mac and I use MAMP (http://www.mamp.info/) which works like a charm (it ships with all you need to run Drupal: PHP, MySQL, Apache) and you don't need to install/build each of these separately.

regards,
Stephane.