Problems installing SilverStripe

CMS & WordPress
1

I’m trying to install SilverStripe to my PC and I’m having a problem (I’ve posted this on their dedicated forum but there’s only me and one other person logged on so I might be waiting a while for an answer!)

I’ve installed Apache, PHP5 and MySQL seperately and used them for something else so I know they work.

When the script runs to install it, I get this in return:

[FONT=“Courier New”][Warning] strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected ‘Europe/London’ for ‘1.0/DST’ instead
POST /silverstripe/install.php

Line 298 in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\silverstripe\sapphire\core\HTTP.php

Source

289
290 /**
291 * Set the maximum age of this page in web caches, in seconds
292 */
293 static function set_cache_age($age) {
294 self::$cache_age = $age;
295 }
296
297 static function register_modification_date($dateString) {
298 $timestamp = strtotime($dateString);
299 if($timestamp > self::$modification_date)
300 self::$modification_date = $timestamp;
301 }
302
303 static function register_modification_timestamp($timestamp) {
304 if($timestamp > self::$modification_date)
Trace

strtotime(2010-04-16 19:45:43)
Line 298 of HTTP.php
HTTP::register_modification_date(2010-04-16 19:45:43)
Line 206 of DataObject.php
DataObject->__construct(Array)
Line 2538 of DataObject.php
DataObject->instance_get_one(URLSegment = ‘home’,)
Line 2468 of DataObject.php
DataObject::get_one(SiteTree,URLSegment = ‘home’)
Line 927 of SiteTree.php
SiteTree->requireDefaultRecords()
Line 212 of DatabaseAdmin.php
DatabaseAdmin->doBuild(1)
Line 793 of install.php
Installer->install(Array)
Line 123 of install.php
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I suspect this might be something to do with the Apache set-up, but does anybody have any ideas what?

2

Hi there,

I’m not sure if this is any help at all. But if you are installing the software onto your client computer why not use a program like Xampp. This will set up the LAMP (minus the Linux) server for testing on.

I’ve just installed SilverStripe using this method and have had no problems.

3

Even with a bundle you’re still likely going to need to mess with the timezone to stop that warning. If it was only important in a limited number of places you could get away with using date_default_timezone_set(), but as this seems to be affecting the install IMHO you should edit your php.ini file. Probably in your Apache/bin folder.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Module Settings ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
;date.timezone =

Just add the appropriate string and uncomment the line by removing the leading “;” then restart the server.