FAtAL Error when installing

[FlorianWachter]

Hey everyone - i just wanted to setup a fresh omeka on my server and get that error:

Fatal error : Uncaught Zend_Cache_Exception: Could not determine temp directory, please specify a cache_dir manually in /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Cache.php:209 Stack trace: #0 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Cache/Backend.php(217): Zend_Cache::throwException(‘Could not deter…’) #1 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php(130): Zend_Cache_Backend->getTmpDir() #2 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Cache.php(153): Zend_Cache_Backend_File->__construct(Array) #3 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Cache.php(94): Zend_Cache::_makeBackend(‘File’, Array, false, false) #4 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Cache/Manager.php(172): Zend_Cache::factory(‘Core’, ‘File’, Array, Array, false, false, false) #5 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Application/Resource/Locale.php(106): Zend_Cache_Manager->getCache(‘locale’) #6 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Application/Resource/ResourceAbstract.php(98): Zend_Application_Resource_Locale->setCache(‘locale’) #7 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Omeka/Application/Resource/Locale.php(41): Zend_Application_Resource_ResourceAbstract->setOptions(Array) #8 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(685): Omeka_Application_Resource_Locale->init() #9 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(628): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_executeResource(‘locale’) #10 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(588): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_bootstrap(‘locale’) #11 /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/install/install.php(41): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->bootstrap() #12 {main} thrown in /www/htdocs/w01bb02c/archiv.humboldts-erben.de/application/libraries/Zend/Cache.php on line 209

? ? Any idea what i can do to solve it?

[jflatnes]

We’ve seen this one before, but pretty rarely.

The caching functionality here will check PHP’s upload_tmp_dir, then the system temp directory returned by sys_get_temp_dir(), and a couple ways after that to try to find a usable temporary directory. You only get this error if all of those attempts fail to find a temporary directory the cache can write to. Maybe you have a quite locked-down server, possibly using the open_basedir PHP setting?

You can manually set what temporary directory the cache will try to use by setting a line in application/config/config.ini:

cache.locale.backend.options.cache_dir = "/path/to/cache/dir"

where /path/to/cache/dir is replaced with the actual path you want to use. Keep in mind it will have to be a folder that exists and is accessible and writable by the Omeka PHP process.