[SOLVED - various install issues]
Posted by bcen_dave on April 27, 2014 at 11:16pm
many thanks to mpotter and others who have patiently suggested various changes so I could get a clean install of oa2.17.
As far as I can see I was suffering from various resource shortages. So I used a different server and got a good basic installation. For what it's worth, this is what I did that worked:
unpacked the 2.17 installation tarball in the document root
ran install.php
increased the php.ini memory limit from 32 megs to 192 megs
restarted httpd
blew out on a memory allocation error configuring the site after a successful install
increased the memory limit to 256 megs