Fresh install of phplist not working; blank admin page

[meanfox]

I asked this at phplist.com but got no response. I also searched fantasico site.

Installed to /lists using fantastico, which does the config edit for you. No manual edits done.

Problem: /lists/admin/ is blank, so is /lists/
Page source is just <!-- using ../config/config.php -->

Then I edited /admin/index.php to bump up the error reporting:

$er = error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);

Reloading the admin page gives no error but gives this warning:

Warning: main(SMARTY_CORE_DIRcore.load_plugins.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /tmp/%%E3^E31^E31EF37A%%simpleWidget-Grid.tpl.php on line 3

Is this the cause? Can anyone help? I've tried various suggested fixes but to no avail.

phplist version 2.10.5

Apache version 1.3.37 (Unix)
PHP version 4.4.7
MySQL version 4.1.22-standard-log

Andrew has now upgraded software - but same problem:

Apache version 1.3.39 (Unix)
PHP version 4.4.8
MySQL version 5.0.45-community-log


Has anyone installed phplist recently with success?
How do I install MailMan?

Cheers,

Tom

[AndrewT]

I would double check that the domain has free disk space available. If it doesn't, it won't be able to write to /tmp.

[meanfox]

Theres mountains of free disk space (95.83/1000.00 MB used).

\tmp permissions is 0755 - sound ok?

Error log is empty.

Can someone try it and see if they get the same problem?

Tom

[AndrewT]

Please submit a ticket with the actual URL for this and I'll take a quick look at it.

[AndrewT]

If anyone else experiences this problem, which is fairly unlikely, please submit a ticket and I can fix it for you.

[ZYV]

I wonder why would you opt to install a separate mailing list application and taking the pain to fix and upgrade it once in a while instead of using mailing list feature provided by Dathorn (based on mailman)?

I admit it would be nice to have mailman backups which is not currently provided, but are there any other reasons I am not aware of?

[Frank Hagan]

I wonder why would you opt to install a separate mailing list application and taking the pain to fix and upgrade it once in a while instead of using mailing list feature provided by Dathorn (based on mailman)?

I admit it would be nice to have mailman backups which is not currently provided, but are there any other reasons I am not aware of?

While not really "backups", you can save the Mailman archives manually. You can also set up a private Google Group as a member of your Mailman mail list and have a separate repository of them. Neither one saves your member list, etc., but at least you have some options.

[AndrewT]

Full cPanel backups do now have the Mailman lists backed up as well.

[ZYV]

Hmm... thanks a lot! I definitively have to check this out. This finally makes it a perfect low-maintenance and yet powerful solution for mailing lists.