Install on Yahoo Webhosting

It's been two years since I last considered installing a scheduling system. Last I tried installing phpScheduleIt on Yahoo Webhosting is documented in a previous post. It was a failure.

I've tried again and this time it worked.

Here's what worked for me: (Note: the previous attempt left mysql files in place)
1. Updated phpMyAdmin and downloaded everything for phpScheduleIt 1.2.x
2. Made many edits to the config.php file and by a very extended process, figured out how to option config.php
a. weburi was pretty easy, just the complete url to the phpScheduleIt sub-folder on my web site.
b. dbUser, was my admin login to phpMyAdmin
c. dbPass, was my admin login to phpMyAdmin (Note: when not correct, phpScheduleIt returns an error that
it can't find or open the database. I had my yahoo login as my dbUser, but had changed phpMyAdmin
to a different password. So until I got it right, no database was found. Using phpMyAdmin and some SQL,
I had confirmed that my install of the databases 2 years ago was still valid.
d. // Database host specification (hostname[:port]) [localhost]
$conf['db']['hostSpec'] = 'mysql';
This was the last wringer. Yahoo Webhosting prefers 'mysql' to 'localhost' I found documentation in Yahoo Help

After doing the above, phpScheduleIt worked! I was able to register and receive confirmation e-mails. At first, I came in as a regular user, until I changed my profile to the admin e-mail I had entered into config.

That's a security concern because it might mean that anyone could become admin by guessing what the admin e-mail is.

Anyway, I can confirm that phpScheduleIt installs on Yahoo Webhosting.