Video uploading throws error -- Failed to find flength file.

This is a well known error with the uploader component (which is commonly used by many scripts like clipshare, phpmotion etc). This is just a cosmetic error and nothing to do with the real uploading process. The best "workaround" for this issue is to disable the error message. To do so, locate the file cgi-bin/uu_ini_status.pl inside your script folder and change the value of my $flength_file_exists from 0 to 1.

The bad news is, you won't see the upload status counter. The good news is, your upload process will work just fine! 

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