the network wizard is utterly pathetic

[gabrielcrowe]

the title says it all.

it tries so hard to auto configure my details. and fails. miserbly. i'v even had this one wth support and i got some half assed 'i'll get back to you'. no emails

i have a thread over on one of the forums that no one reads, with this problem, so i thought i'd start a duplicate thread, becasue i'm a bítch. SOMEONE on the actinic programming team needs to give me a response as to why actinic does this. i want to know exactly how and why this error will not let me continue the wizard. when a new site does.

this means that your wizard does not 'start with new settings' when you tick that box at all, does it?

I have a shop running in V7 fine, all network tests passed.

I import the V7 into a V8 and after it utterly ballsed up my templates, i go to network settings and test.

Failed.

i export the v7 settings, thinking something was lost in translation.

import.

failed.

i start a new shop from the sites tab in v8. and import the settings. passed?

i start my network settings from scratch in v8, and let the wizard do its thing.

failed.

can anyone actually explain why v8 fails on the SAME settings?

[gabrielcrowe]

fixed.

what it should ahve said in the error was:

"Sorry Gabriel, we mangled your perl scripts when we also mangled you templates, copying all the perl from a virgin site into your site1 folder will fix it."

but no. no such luck.

anyone who gets this error should create a new site, and copy the scripts from it, into the site they want to fix.

problem solved.

thanks to the lovely girls in actinic support, but you couldnt help me

[RuralWeb]

The wizard seems not to work as well in V8 as it did in V7 - TBH Ive not managed to get it to work at all really and configure manually most times now.