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Redirect Loop when trying to install Vanilla 2 RC

edited May 2010 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
Hi!

I'm trying to install the Vanilla 2 RC-version.
The last versions all could be installed to my webspace.
I deleted all the old files and copied the new ones onto the server.
But when I try to access my forum's address, I always get a redirection error!

Firefox says:

Redirect Loop

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

It seems like it's getting redirected from forum.xxxx.de/dashboard/setup to forum.xxxx.de/index.php/dashboard/setup to forum.xxxx.de/setup/dashboard/setup to forum.xxxx.de/index.php/setup/dashboard/setup and so on...

I'm using a .hhtaccess-file which worked like a charm until now:

DirectoryIndex index.php/


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php/$1 [L,R=301]


When using the .htaccess-file from github, it redirects to forum.xxxx.de/dashboard/setup but says "No input file specified."


Any ideas what causes the loop?
It worked well before...

Thanks!

Comments

  • TimTim Vanilla Staff
    You should definitely be using the provided .htaccess file and not the one you pasted here. As for why you are getting that error, I'm not 100% certain but it sounds like you're using FastCGI and PHP's fcgi daemon is not being passed the right script argument.

    During some of my early experiments with nginx I found that replacing
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]

    with
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?rewrite=$1 [QSA,L]

    helped out a bit. I'm still not sure what the error is though, we've tested quite extensively on different configurations and worked through quite a slew of issues.

    Can you provide more details about your environment?
    Apache Version, PHP version, PHP interface mode [php_sapi_name()], Operating System

    Vanilla Forums COO [GitHub, Twitter, About.me]

  • @Tim:
    I tried changing the .htaccess file like you recommended. But I still get the Redirect Loop on http://forum.xxxx.de/setup/dashboard/setup

    My Webspace:

    Apache/2.2.15 (Unix)
    PHP Version 5.2.12

    The Server is using CGI-PHP

    Is there anything I could try by altering the php.ini?
  • this sounds very close to the same issue i have,
  • are you using the most recent github RC branch? Im having a issue with main page installer not loading. Could be related.
  • @bobtheman Yes, I am!
  • *whistles. any luck?
  • not yet...
  • nope... no joy here either...
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