Understanding the readme and questions about Mainfile.php

New Member Joined: Jan 08, 2005 Posts: 3

Ok...I have phpnuke 7.5 and the appropriate version of sentinel downloaded. I tried to read the readme but couldn't really understand it because of some jumbled characters. Needless to say I went on and tried. I put all the files in and then went to [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] and did the new install.

I tried getting into the sentinel options through the admin panel and I get thisL

It appears that NukeSentinel(tm) has not been configured correctly. The most common cause is that you either have an error in the syntax that is including includes/sentinel.php from your mainfile.php, or you have not added the NukeSentinel(tm) code to your mainfile.php. This code must be placed immediately after the opening <? tag in mainfile.php. So your first 7 lines in mainfile.php must look like this:

<?php
if ($forum_admin == 1) {
include("../../../includes/sentinel.php");
} elseif ($inside_mod == 1) {
include("../../includes/sentinel.php");
} else {
include("includes/sentinel.php");
}

Now I tried to change the mainfile.php, but then when I did that it completely wrecked my site, giving me a blank page. So I am thinking that I missed a step somewhere or that I didn't go about doing SOMETHING right. Can anyone tell me the proper way to install sentinel or even just let me know what I'm doing wrong? Thank you very much Razz

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Make sure that all the files got uploaded correctly. Then try it again.

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 11:03 pm

hmmm...everything seems to be uploaded....and I even reinstalled sentinel..but get the same message

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 11:27 pm

well how about that? I got it to work...thank you very much....

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 11:30 pm

What did you do?