DAVical gives back empty page only

[produnis]

Binary package hint: davical

After installing davical on Lucid-64bit, its webpage gives back an empty page only.
Looking at apaches error log, it says:
 PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'AWLUtilities.php' (include_path='../inc:0') in /usr/share/davical/inc/always.php on line 54

The requested AWLUtilities.php is located at /usr/share/awl/inc/AWLUtilities.php

After manually fixing davicals's always.php to find AWLUtilities, it goes on and on complainig about other "missing" files, which all are intsalled at my system.

After changing 6 files, and still having a complaining davical, I gave up...

[Andrew McMillan (karora)]

Thanks. What fix did you apply?

The original include_path looks odd though - it's normally recommended to set the include path to "../inc:/usr/share/awl/inc" although always.php does try to find the includes there in the first place, and I really don't have a clue why that does not work for you.

Specifically the "0" in (include_path='../inc:0') is what looks peculiar in the above. How did that get there?

Regards,
Andrew McMillan.

[produnis (schlarmann-uni-wh)]

Strangely, the include-path in php.ini seems to be ignored.
I fixed my issues by symlinking
/usr/share/awl/inc/ into /usr/share/davical/inc

$> cd /usr/share/davical/inc
$> sudo ln -s /usr/share/awl/inc/* .

[Andrew McMillan (karora)]

Hmmm... I think that the PHP include path might be being set in the Apache virtual host (that's the recommended approach, but I don't know if someone hacked on what Ubuntu does in this regard). I guess symlinking all of the AWL includes into the DAViCal include directory is better than worst case :-)

Cheers,
Andrew.

[Andrew McMillan (karora)]

Recent versions of DAViCal don't need or expect the include path to be set to find the AWL libraries (at least on Debian, Ubuntu and most distribution packages in general).