Installing Vanilla 2 on Rackspace Hosting

MacTyler

I have downloaded the latest vanilla/garden from git and uploaded everything to my test page iphonedevforums.com/new/ I tried to install and it gave me this error http://drp.ly/xMO9k now anytime I go anywhere like iphonedevforums.com/new/ it gives me this http://drp.ly/xMP3y . I am on rackspace and my .htaccess looks like this

"
DirectoryIndex index.php/
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteBase /new/
"

MacTyler

I can confirm that after talking to rackspace they have said they are not really sure what is causing it either. They don't think it is their configuration because their PHP meets all the vanilla requirements.

Stretch

Are you on a Cloud Site? I'm having .htaccess related problems on a Rackspace Cloud Site – can't get past the installation screen without a 500 internal server error.

copperdogma

Any solution on this? I'm also on Rackspace and can't get the rewriteurls to do anything except throw a 500 error.

Linc

@copperdogma I'm hosting several Vanilla installs on RS with no issue and vanillaforums.com runs on RS servers, so you'll probably want to start a discussion based on your particular configuration rather than assuming it's something to do with being on Rackspace.

DotMRT

Change your .htaccess to the one below if you have your forum running on the root:

# Modified
# If you modify this file then change the above line to: # Modified

RewriteEngine On
# Certain hosts may require the following line.
# If vanilla is in a subfolder then you need to specify it after the /.
# (ex. You put Vanilla in /forum so change the next line to: RewriteBase /forum)
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L]



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NOTE: If you have your forum in some directory like /forum, then change it to this:

# Modified
# If you modify this file then change the above line to: # Modified

RewriteEngine On
# Certain hosts may require the following line.
# If vanilla is in a subfolder then you need to specify it after the /.
# (ex. You put Vanilla in /forum so change the next line to: RewriteBase /forum)
RewriteBase /forum
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L]


*Do remember to change the /forum path to your own path where your forum is installed.