Connection to the server was reset - PHPmotion

Hello,


When you are trying to upload the larger videos in phpmotion, you may have got this error.


http://yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/uu_upload.pl?tmp_sid=815e201755c87c014ef49917cd76a186

The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again

Fix: 

Issue may be due to apache or php getting timedout. You can fix by increasing the value Timeout in httpd.conf.

PhpMotion Installation

If you want to run PHPmotion you will need either to have a dedicated server with the following required modules installed OR a web hosting provider that already has these features.

Servers - Linux/Unix server

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• PHP 4.3 and above (including support of CLI)
• MySQL database server
• LAME MP3 Encoder
• Libogg + Libvorbis
• Mencoder and also Mplayer
• FFMpeg-PHP
• GD Library 2 or higher
• CGI-BIN    

PHP Settings

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• open_basedir = (no value)
• upload_max_filesize = 100M
• post_max_size = 100M
• max_execution_time = 1500
• session.gc_maxlifetime = 14000
• safe_mode = off
• enable_dl = On

Apache Web Server

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• .htaccess support
• mod rewrite 

You will need to have your Mysql Database Information. You can create a Mysql database via your web hosts control panel
- Mysql Database Name
- Mysql Database User Name
- Mysql Database Password

Downloading PHPmotion

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You can download phpmotion from the URL
http://phpmotion.com/content/view/1/180/

General Instructions

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• Unzip the download file
• Upload (the contents) to your website using FTP
• The following files MUST be uploaded in Binary mode
  • /phpshiled/all files in this folder
  • /classes/config.php
  • /addons/customprofile/pimp.class.php
  • /addons/customprofile/index.php
• The following files must be CHMOD to 755
  • /cgi-bin/all files and folder in this folder
• Start the installation wizard by (opening in your broswer) http://www.yourdomain.com/setup (you will be required to chmod a few more files by the setup wizard)

The setup wizard will guide you through the rest of the installation process.

Additional Instructions

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Installing to a Sub-Directory

If you are installing to a sub directory (example: http://www.yourdomain.com/**phpmotion**) you should do all the steps above and also the steps below additional steps

Edit the following files to include your subfolder name: (in this example the subfolder name we have inserted is phpmotion )

• /cgi-bin/uu_default_config.pm
• /cgi-bin/audio/uu_default_config.pm

    temp_dir                 => $ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'} . '/phpmotion/temp/',
    upload_dir               => $ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'} . '/phpmotion/uploads/avi/',
    redirect_url             => '/phpmotion/uploader_finished.php',
    path_to_upload           => '/phpmotion/uploads/avi/',

• /audio_uploader_conlib.php
• /uploader_conlib.php

$path_to_upload_script      = '/phpmotion/cgi-bin/uu_upload.pl';
 $path_to_ini_status_script  = '/phpmotion/cgi-bin/uu_ini_status.pl';

/.htaccess

#----- if phpmotion is installed in a sub directory edit the RewriteBase as follows -----#
  # EXAMPLE => RewriteBase /phpmotion
  # EXAMPLE => RewriteBase /phpmotion
  RewriteBase /

For trouble sooting common errors in phpmotion, 

http://wiki.phpmotion.com/CommonInstallationErrors