Have been playing with emoncms for a week now on my proper hosting account but used mysql as database for the feeds.
While trying the new solar app I stumbled on the fact you need the feeds to be ideally phpfina but …
am on a cpanel driven server (I do have root access as I’m the admin)
latest emoncms installed in /home/accountname/public_html/emon/…
When I want to add a phpfina feed I get an error (logical as that directory is not allowed, cpanel doesn’t allow to go out of the account name)
Is there a simple solution or do you need to recode ? If you would like people to use emoncms on their hosting (like me) I guess you will have to make relative paths to the account and not to root.
If I can be of any help, let me know …
thanks
ps : I can’t add a new tag like for example emoncms and phpfina …
now that the tag problem is solved (for now)
this is a real problem I have … a coder could please tell me how to solve this ? pleazzzzz 
ok found the solution, stupid me … if installing on a shared server don’t forget this part 
- In your shared hosting /home/username folder create a folder called emoncmsdata to hold your emoncms feed data.
(Note: NOT public_html as the data files should not be publicly accessible).
Then create three folders within your emoncmsdata folder called: phpfiwa, phpfina and phptimeseries
- In the emoncms app directory make a copy of default_settings.php and call it settings.php.
Open settings.php and enter your mysql username, password and database.
In the feed_settings section uncomment the datadir definitions and set them to the location of each of the feed engine data folders on your system.
In the ‘Other settings’ section, change the $log_filename location to:
$log_filename = dirname(FILE).‘/’ . ‘emoncms.log’;