Problems installing vanilla2.3

anton53 · January 2017

I downloaded vanilla 2.3 from https://open.vanillaforums.com/download
I unzipped the zip file and moved the contents to mySite/vanilla/
I changed the access for vanilla/cache/ vanilla/uploads/ and vanilla/conf using chmod -R 777
When I access mySite/vanilla I get:

Index of /vanilla

and a list of files and subdirectories

if I double click 'index.php' I obtain an error message:

Not Found
The requested URL /vanilla/dashboard/setup was not found on this server.

No dashboard appears.

What's wrong?

whu606 · January 2017

Did you change the htaccess file to point to your Vanilla subfolder?

anton53 · January 2017

yes i did:

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 /vanilla

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=/?([^&]+)(&([^?]+))?$
RewriteRule ^index\.php %1?%3 [E=X_REWRITE:1,L]

# The basic rewrite rule.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,E=X_REWRITE:1,E=X_PATH_INFO:/$1,L]

# Add the proper X_REWRITE server variable for rewritten requests.
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_X_REWRITE} .+
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_X_PATH_INFO} (.+)
RewriteRule ^index\.php - [QSA,E=X_REWRITE:1,E=!REDIRECT_X_REWRITE,E=X_PATH_INFO:%1,E=!REDIRECT_X_PATH_INFO,L]

# 301 redirect urls that start with index.php
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET [NC]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*?)/index\.php(.*)$
#RewriteRule ^index\.php /%1%2 [QSA,R,L]

Header set Cache-Control "max-age=315360000"
Header set Expires "31 December 2037 23:59:59 GMT"

kopna · January 2017

1. читаем/we read тут/here если непонятно, используем google translate/ use google translate
2. устанавливаем/installation
3. - копируем скачанные файлы в /copy the downloaded files to/ /public_html на вашем хостинге/on your hosting
4. - создаём базу данных/create database имя/name ваш домен/host user_name/ник пользователя password/ваш пароль
5. запускаем в браузере index.php/ runs in browser index.php ваше доменное имя/your domain name, например/example: http://your domain.com/index.php
6. где используем ваше/where your use имя/name ваш домен/host user_name/ник пользователя password/ваш пароль + созданный вами аккаунт администратора/ created an administrator account you
7. Всё/ The End

kopna · January 2017

I had the same problem with the file .htaccess Vanilla 2.3 I changed to an ordinary file .htaccess on Vanilla 2.2.1

anton53 · January 2017

Can you tell me what to change in the .htaccess file?

kopna · January 2017

@anton53 said:
Can you tell me what to change in the .htaccess file?

Original

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]

anton53 · January 2017

No change!

kopna · January 2017

@anton53 said:
No change!

if you change the file .htaccess

put before this # RewriteBase /, Excuse me!

anton53 · January 2017

Still no result. Maybe there is a php package missing. I am using php7.0, which php packages are required?

anton53 · January 2017

Solved:
a2enmod rewrite

kopna · January 2017

@anton53 said:
Solved:
a2enmod rewrite

what exactly solve the problem?

ultDA · June 2017

What specifically resolved this issue?

I am having the same problem. When browsing to the default directory i get the following 404 error:

 Not Found

 The requested URL /dashboard/setup was not found on this server.

  Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at ec2-52-25-128-181.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com Port 80

There is not a /dashboard/setup directory. This is a fresh installation in AWS using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - PHP 7.0.18, MySQL 5.7.18, OpenSSL 1.0.2g, and Vanilla Forums 2.3.1. The .htaccess file has been modified to the following:

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 /

No other modifications to the .htaccess have been made. I also tried using the .htaccess file from 2.1 without any luck.

I have updated the permissions on the /cache, /conf, /uploads directories with (chmod +777) and have restarted the Apache service (sudo service apache2 stop/start). I've been trying to work through this for the last week. I've reviewed a number of different posts.

If anyone could provide some insight into what could be causing this error i would very much appreciate it!

vrijvlinder · June 2017

Ok, forgive the inaccurate info... you don't need 777 chmod ever... 775 max

You must make sure you have the Rewrite Module enabled in your server for this installation. To find out if you do or don't have it enabled you need to look at your php.ini file.

Create a php file called phpinfo.php
paste this into it and put it in the root of your vanilla installation

<?php

// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL
phpinfo();

?>

Then go to yoursite.com/forum/phpinfo

report what the settings are for Rewrite Module ...

Delete the .ini files from the forum cache when ever you modify any files in the installation.

ultDA · June 2017

mod_rewrite is reported under the loaded modules

Under Directive:
url_rewriter.tags a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry

here's some more output:

PHP logo
PHP Version 7.0.18-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

System Linux ip-172-31-22-228 4.4.0-1013-aws #22-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 31 15:41:31 UTC 2017 x86_64
Server API Apache 2.0 Handler
Virtual Directory Support disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc/php/7.0/apache2
Loaded Configuration File /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d
Additional .ini files parsed /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/10-mysqlnd.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/10-opcache.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/10-pdo.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-calendar.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-ctype.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-exif.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-fileinfo.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-ftp.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-gettext.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-iconv.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-json.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-phar.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-posix.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-readline.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-shmop.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-sockets.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-sysvmsg.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-sysvsem.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-sysvshm.ini, /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/20-tokenizer.ini
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PHP Extension 20151012
Zend Extension 320151012
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PHP Extension Build API20151012,NTS
Debug Build no
Thread Safety disabled
Zend Signal Handling disabled
Zend Memory Manager enabled
Zend Multibyte Support disabled
IPv6 Support enabled
DTrace Support available, disabled
Registered PHP Streams https, ftps, compress.zlib, php, file, glob, data, http, ftp, phar
Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, tls, tlsv1.0, tlsv1.1, tlsv1.2
Registered Stream Filters zlib.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, dechunk, convert.iconv.*, mcrypt.*, mdecrypt.*
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Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
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Configuration

apache2handler

Apache Version Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
Apache API Version 20120211
Server Administrator webmaster@localhost
Hostname:Port :80
User/Group www-data(33)/33
Max Requests Per Child: 0 - Keep Alive: on - Max Per Connection: 100
Timeouts Connection: 300 - Keep-Alive: 5
Virtual Server Yes
Server Root /etc/apache2
Loaded Modules core mod_so mod_watchdog http_core mod_log_config mod_logio mod_version mod_unixd mod_access_compat mod_alias mod_auth_basic mod_authn_core mod_authn_file mod_authz_core mod_authz_host mod_authz_user mod_autoindex mod_deflate mod_dir mod_env mod_filter mod_mime prefork mod_negotiation mod_php7 mod_rewrite mod_setenvif mod_status
Directive Local Value Master Value
engine 1 1
last_modified 0 0
xbithack 0 0
Apache Environment

ultDA · June 2017

if anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated!

I've been working on this for days, ready every blog post possible, maybe every modification i can think of (newbie to Vanilla Forum) and still nothing. I get the following error regardless.

Not Found

The requested URL /forum/dashboard/setup was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at compute.amazonaws.com Port 80

I'm running up against an important deadline and have to start considering other optons. I really want to Vanilla work because of the time invested and feedback i've read.

Thanks in advance!

R_J · June 2017

Use RewriteBase /forum instead of RewriteBase /

ultDA · June 2017

R_J - thanks you for the response; however its the same issue:

Here's what i did ...

Step 1: created a forum directory under "/var/www/html/forum/"
Step 2: extracted 2.3 (2ZCYQN977HZZ.zip) to this new directory.
Step 3: unzipped
Step 4: sudo chmod -R 775 cache/ conf/ uploads/
Step 5: modified the .htaccess file as recommended "RewriteBase /forum"

ubuntu@ip-:/var/www/html/forum$ cat .htaccess

Original

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 %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=/?([^&]+)(&([^?]+))?$
RewriteRule ^index\.php %1?%3 [E=X_REWRITE:1,L]

# The basic rewrite rule.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,E=X_REWRITE:1,E=X_PATH_INFO:/$1,L]

# Add the proper X_REWRITE server variable for rewritten requests.
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_X_REWRITE} .+
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_X_PATH_INFO} (.+)
RewriteRule ^index\.php - [QSA,E=X_REWRITE:1,E=!REDIRECT_X_REWRITE,E=X_PATH_INFO:%1,E=!REDIRECT_X_PATH_INFO,L]

# 301 redirect urls that start with index.php
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET [NC]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*?)/index\.php(.*)$
#RewriteRule ^index\.php /%1%2 [QSA,R,L]

Header set Cache-Control "max-age=315360000"
Header set Expires "31 December 2037 23:59:59 GMT"

Step 6: restarted apache (just in case)
Step 7: tested in browser

Chrome:
Not Found

The requested URL /forum/dashboard/setup was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at ec2-52-25-128-181.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com Port 80

FireFox:
enabledApplicationFolders(); $dispatcher->enabledApplicationFolders($enabledApplications); $dispatcher->passProperty('EnabledApplications', $enabledApplications); // Process the request. $dispatcher->start(); $dispatcher->dispatch();

Note:
Before moving to the forum directory, manually using this url would get me to the admin setup page; however, when submitting the configs it would fail again.

.compute.amazonaws.com/index.php?p=/dashboard/setup/

vrijvlinder · June 2017

Please replace the contents of the htaccess file with this

# Modified
# If you modify this file then change the above line to: # Modified
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   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]
</IfModule>

also make sure if you have already gone through the set up page , look inside the conf/config.php to see if ReWriteUrls is true... if not make it true instead of false. Both the htaccess and the config.php must have this matching.

This was all explained in the tutorial category.. !!

https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/25111/about-error-404-not-found

ultDA · June 2017

Thank you vrijvlinder - your help is very much appreciated!

I did see that tutorial link but did not read it extensively because of the post date (2013) and i've been focused on 2.3.1.

I made the modification you suggested with the .htaccess file. I backed up the original and input what you provided and i'm still getting the same 404 error "The requested URL /forum/dashboard/setup was not found on this server.".

I do not have a "forum/conf/config.php" file.

ubuntu@:/var/www/html/forum$ pwd
/var/www/html/forum

ubuntu@:/var/www/html/forum$ ls -al ./conf/
total 32
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 May 11 18:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jun 13 05:29 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 13790 May 11 18:58 config-defaults.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 2681 May 11 18:58 constants.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 283 May 11 18:58 readme.txt

I also don't see any ReWriteUrls configurations in config-defaults.php.
ubuntu@:/var/www/html/forum/conf$ grep ReWriteUrls config-defaults.php
ubuntu@:/var/www/html/forum/conf$

ubuntu@:/var/www/html/forum$ ls -al ./cache/
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 May 11 18:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jun 13 05:29 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 0 May 11 18:58 .gitkeep
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 May 11 18:58 Smarty
ubuntu@ip-172-31-22-228:/var/www/html/forum$

Here's the current state of my system:

installed directory : /var/www/html/forum

directory permissions: drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 May 11 18:58 cache
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 13 06:12 conf
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 May 11 18:58 uploads

.htaccess file:

ubuntu@i<hostname>:/var/www/html/forum$ cat .htaccess
 # Modified
 # If you modify this file then change the above line to: # Modified
 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 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]
</IfModule>

Browser (Chrome & Safari): http:///forum/dashboard/setup

 Not Found

 The requested URL /forum/dashboard/setup was not found on this server.

  Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at <server> Port 80

I'm not sure what to test at this point.

I really appreciate this community providing all the assistance that it has in a short period of time. You can tell a lot from a product by the community; however, if i can't get this up and running by tomorrow afternoon I'll need to start looking at alternatives.

If anyone has anymore ideas ... please let me know.

R_J · June 2017

Add this line to your /conf/config-defaults.php: $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = false;

Afterwards you should be able to install and use the forum. Try if at least this is working and your only problem is that .htaccess rewrite problem.

Problems installing vanilla2.3

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