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aiwass
#11671 2009-04-21 23:00
Does your server have all the requirements that Cotonti needs ?
I had the same problems at first until i check if all the required bits was available on the server i was testing on. It turned out that they weren't, so i changed to another server which had the requirements needed.

cotonti:
Requirements To install Cotonti for the first time, you'll need to have the minimum following server software pre-installed:
* WWW Server (Apache, nginx, etc)
* PHP 5.1 or higher
* MySQL 4.1 or higher
Server Configuration
You MUST ensure that PHP has been compiled with support for:
* GD
* Mbstring
* MySQL
* PCRE
* Sessions
* Zlib
in order to successfully run Cotonti.
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