Hi there.

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Just to check... when you manually installed
you edited include/config.php with your mysql info.
Then you uploaded it and browsed to the /docs directory, clicking the links to create the database tables and populate them.

I had the tables from the Fantastico installation so I just recreated them and it worked fine.

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Warning: include(../include/lang/.php)

2 things I notice here ...
first language isn't set,
2nd, ../include is incorrect.

This is how language config looks like at links/include/config.php

Code:

// ******************************************************************* // choose your language here. // If you are bilingual please consider translating the file // /include/lang/language.php and contributing it at // http://www.dew-code.com // ******************************************************************* $language = 'english';

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If you use the admin panel, configuration page. Is the info still filled out? If this will be installed in the root directory of you site, BASE PATH should be blank, otherwise it should contain /directoryname where directoryname is the name of the directory you have installed to.

The Base Path is blank. I tried to enter the path to just in case and it still dint show the site. well the site should appear at links.domain.com

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If you have access to phpmyadmin , you could verify that the phplinks_settings table exists, and that it is getting populated. If not, the admin panel includes modules, one is called mysql query box. It will allow you to view the tables and browse their content.

This table phplinks_settings does exists yes and to me seems to be fine. Conclusion : I belive something must be wrong either at .htaccess or index file !