Cannot install b2evolution from Softaculous

Hosting Support
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Hi again. I’m struggling to install b2evolution blog platform from Softaculous, it just stops at 16% of “Copying files” and it shows:
"
The following errors were found :

  • Installation Failed
    "

Also, I’m unable to install it via web because the file is larger than 16MB. I tried uploading it in two parts via FTP (with FileZilla), but then Net2FTP doesn’t show any option to extract those files. Also it doesn’t show any ‘Upload ZIP’ option on the uploading page itself. I tried with the rest of file managers but Angular Files doesn’t contains an extract file option either and MonstaFTP just stops working when extracting with no specific error messages.

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You may be able to install the script manually, just not by uploading the ZIP file to your account first. However, if you extract the ZIP on your computer and then upload the extracted files with FileZilla, you might be able to install it.

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@Admin ok, I’ll try, but it will take hours because there’re +2k files and the FTP protocol is not the fastest one to transfer files. Altho, you must solve this error, because you’re offering a feature that -altho in most cases work- is not working with this platform.

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@augustocortega said:
@Admin ok, I’ll try, but it will take hours because there’re +2k files and the FTP protocol is not the fastest one to transfer files.

FTP is not the best protocol for uploading many small files, but it’s the only way to upload files to your free hosting account. Even the file managers use FTP to interact with the files on your account. Sure, the file managers have fast internet connections and low latency to the FTP servers, but even they need to upload your files one by one to your account.

And I’m not sure whether you’ve ever had to develop a PHP application which had to upload thousands of files in a request, but I can tell you from experience that it’s really complicated.

@augustocortega said:
Altho, you must solve this error, because you’re offering a feature that -altho in most cases work- is not working with this platform.

I’d love to fix this, but as you noticed, Softaculous shows no information whatsoever about why it failed. For all I know, the installation archive from Softaculous could be corrupted.

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@admin I can’t install b2evolution. Error code: "MySQL error!

Unknown storage engine ‘innodb’(Errno=1286)"

(I uploaded all the files via FTP)

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@augustocortega said:
@admin I can’t install b2evolution. Error code: "MySQL error!

Unknown storage engine ‘innodb’(Errno=1286)"

(I uploaded all the files via FTP)

Thank you for sharing, that was exactly what I was afraid of.

You see, the InnoDB storage engine for MySQL is a premium only feature. On free hosting, you can only use the MyISAM storage engine. This is likely also the reason why Softaculous was unable to install the script.

I’ll make sure b2evolution will be removed from our Softaculous installation as well to prevent further confusion.