Those directions don’t help. I set up my web root as directed, then type 4. cvs -q -z6 update -Pd, at which point CVS displays:

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cvs update: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the `-d' option cvs [update aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.

I get the same error - follow steps 1 through 4 and checked everything several times, with no luck. Also, it says before step 1 that this is the way to install to root, then after step 4 it says "If you find that you want to move the CVS files into the root directory after using option one"... not sure if I'm missing something, but that last line sounds like it will install DF to a subdirectory?

Anyone know how to get past this error or what the syntax/setup is for installing to the site's root (public_html) directory?

ok - I started from scratch, and did the 4 steps as outlined in dragonflycms.org/Wiki/id=41.html - then in the /public_html dir in SSH I type cvs -q -z6 update -Pd and it brings the whole dragonfly download over - the site is in an /html directory and there's /languages and several others... I'm trying to just copy the contents of the CVS /html to my /public_html - any idea what else may need to be done?

If I run the command from the /public_html/CVS dir I get the error mentioned in the previous post about 'no root defined', so I'm assuming this command needs to be ran from inside the /public_html dir?

As the wiki says there's only one line in the Repository and Root file. If you hit enter/return you have 2 lines where the first shows text and the other is empty.
Now cvs failed and just loaded everything so next time read the instructions carefully

As of moving /public_html/html/ to /public_html/

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$ cd public_html $ rm -dfr CVSROOT $ rm -dfr cvsviewer $ rm -dfr l10n $ rm -dfr languages $ rm -dfr modules $ rm -dfr themes $ rm -dfr wysiwyg $ cd .. $ mv --force public_html/html/* public_html/ $ mv --force public_html/html/.* public_html/

DJ - I appreciate the reponse, but I am certain there were no carriage-feeds, returns, extra lines, or any other character that should not be in either text file... I did it 10 times and read the directions very, very carefully. I even checked the files after reading your post, and it's a single line in each one...

I did do 'option 1' and transfer everything from the /html dir back up to /public_html, but there's no config.php there... should I have a running install of latest stable before doing this, or am I way off base?

Memphis wrote:

DJ - I appreciate the reponse, but I am certain there were no carriage-feeds, returns, extra lines, or any other character that should not be in either text file... I did it 10 times and read the directions very, very carefully. I even checked the files after reading your post, and it's a single line in each one... I did do 'option 1' and transfer everything from the /html dir back up to /public_html, but there's no config.php there... should I have a running install of latest stable before doing this, or am I way off base?

9.1 installer create config.php

but remove config.php in the root dir since its now obslete in 9.1

xfsunoles your posts sure are cryptic, but right on point.

I think I finally got it working - installed fresh copy of everything and it says 9.1.0.7 in the admin menu...

Thanks both of you for the assistance.

Memphis wrote:

DJ - I appreciate the reponse, but I am certain there were no carriage-feeds, returns, extra lines, or any other character that should not be in either text file...

Hmm my bad then, but mostly that is the issue.
I've checked it out overhere and saw what happend: there must be an empty file named "Entries"

Will update wiki

I'll jokingly say that instructions must be posted just as carefully as they are read Tell whoever's responsible for the omission that they cost me about 4 hours of my life lol

Glad it got figured out, as I'll probably do a couple more CVS installs in the near future. Thanks again for the assist DJMaze!