Mime Content Off

[dave911]

Hello everyone,

Trying to install a learning management system called Forma (well known) and get stuck at it's install step 2 with the following information listed:

 

Server software : : Apache/2.2.16 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.16 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_wsgi/3.3 Python/2.7.1

PHP Version : : 5.3.8

Mysql Client Version : : 5.1.73

Multibyte Support: ON

mime_content_type() support: OFF

Ldap : : OFF Consider this warning only if you need to use LDAP

Openssl : : ON

Site Timezone: America/Los_Angeles

The mime content support is the problem as it shows as OFF.

I looked through cPanel at the mime page and there are a million or so types there - but cannot figure why the install shows as off. Looking through the FormaLMS forums this seems a common problem and they seem to say that it is an issue that I cannot fix but something the host needs to have a look at at.

(I have this installed on another paid host and all works fine - but I want to swap to Heliohost).

Is this correct? Can I turn on mime support? If not, how do I request mime support to be turned on?

Thanks,

Dave.

[Krydos]

Can you provide a link to Forma's system requirements?

[dave911]

This is link to Forma LMS home page: www.formalms.org (nothing there about system requirements as such).

This is link to the Forma LMS manuals - first pages are on installtion: https://sourceforge.net/projects/forma/files/manuals/

This is from the 'read me' in the package:

 

2. REQUIREMENTS

Server specs: Linux, Windows, MacOs, Unix, Sun with
- Apache 2.0.x or above
- PHP 5.2.x or 5.3.x 5.4.x 5.5.x and 5.6.x
- Mysql 5.0 or higher with transaction support
- Doesn't matter if safe mode or register global are on or off
- If you need to test on your windows home pc we suggest easyphp, wamp or xampp

3. INSTALL PROCEDURE

- Be sure you have your database parameters (host, user, password, dbname) available
- Be sure you have your ftp parameters (host, user, password), if you want use FTP upload
- Before install, create the database on your dbserver (you can use a db admin tool as phpmyadmin)
- If you are on your home pc with your easyphp/wamp/xampp create a database trought
http://localhost/mysql/ or http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
- Upload all the files in your root directory or a subfolder
- Launch http://www.yoursite.com/install/
- Follow installation instructions

Note:
At the end step of install procedure, the system will load XML file languages,
Depending on number of languagse chosen, this operation can take some time in order to complete

 

That's all I can find.

Dave

[Krydos]

Looking through the FormaLMS forums this seems a common problem

Hm, that install information doesn't seem to have any clues. Can you link to where you found this as a common problem on their forums?

[dave911]

There's a couple here:

 

http://www.elearningcommunity.net/forum/search.php?keywords=step+2+mime&fid%5B0%5D=2&sid=95b6bcfdcf8a88e033e52df019bf2713

 

This one's probably more useful - particularly post 2 with some links:

http://www.elearningcommunity.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12582&p=17426&hilit=installation#p17426

although the links seem to go to the other ones above.

Interesting that one posted commented that "It is the mime_content_type() OFF issue that others have had" - so might be more common than the posts I have found.

Thanks,

Dave

[dave911]

Hi Krydos,

Don't worry about this anymore - I've installed ATutor LMS and eFront LMS through Softaculous (and the installations seem to have worked without any issues) which will be equally as good as Forma LMS, and eFront LMS is probably better in some respects.

I'll look at both and decide which one will suit me best and then delete the other one.

(Forma LMS is very similar to eFront LMS, ATutor LMS is a bit more basic.)

Anyway, thanks again for your help.

Dave