[Phpgroupware-users] Fatal Error: It appears that you have not created the database tables...

[Izzy Blacklock]

I'm doing some digging trying to figure out why I'm getting this error:

Fatal Error: It appears that you have not created the database tables for 
phpGroupWare. Click here to run setup.

I found where it is being created in phpgwapi/inc/functions.inc.php.  I'm 
guessing this file gets called by almost everything.  Here's a snip of the 
code:

----- 8< -----

  $GLOBALS['phpgw']->db->Halt_On_Error = 'no';
  @$GLOBALS['phpgw']->db->query("select count(config_name) from 
phpgw_config");
  if (! @$GLOBALS['phpgw']->db->next_record())
  {
    $setup_dir = ereg_replace($PHP_SELF,'index.php','setup/');
    echo '<center><b>Fatal Error:</b> It appears that you have not created the
database tables for
'
    .'phpGroupWare.  Click <a href="' . $setup_dir . '">here</a> to run
setup.</center>';
    exit;
  }
  $GLOBALS['phpgw']->db->Halt_On_Error = 'yes';

----- 8< ----

If I understand this correctly, it's sending a query to the sql server, and if 
it doesn't find anything in the response it produces this error.  Is it 
possible this is a timing issue?  The machine I'm testing this on isn't the 
fastest thing on the planet.  K6 350mhz if I recall.  This would be 
consistent with the problem going away by simply refreshing the browser 
window.

Also, is $PHP_SELF correct here?  I've noticed that there isn't an index.php 
file in all (any?) of the application setup dirs.  This is what is causing 
the second problem I'm having related to this; intermittently getting 
forbidden errors when I click on the provided link.  I've configured apache 
not to auto index which causes the error when there isn't an index file in a 
folder reference.  I'm sure we don't really want an auto generated index here 
anyway. Should the apps have an index file in their setup folder or should 
$PHP_SELF be replaced with the phpgw root directory (not sure the variable 
name)?

...Izzy