I have a fresh install on mediatemple grid server (installed last night) and I'm getting a 404 if I don't add the index.php to the end of the directory its in.
Wow - I'm sorry it had to come to that. I know @Todd has been trying to resolve this issue and he's even contacted the folks at mediatemple so he can set up a test server and sort out the issue.
@Mark No problem, I'm sure there will be a reasonable explanation as to why it seems to be doing that on (mt) gs hosting servers. I switched hosts and now have a copy of it running as it should. I've been involved in forums for many years, and love the new approach you're taking as its a nice fresh change from the same old stuff that's come out as of late.
I actually canned my MT account after they told me that, as an older Grid customer, to get MySQL 5 (to run a dev copy of Vanilla) I would need to either cancel and reregister (thereby getting a newer Grid) or wait months for them to get around to moving me. Classy.
Hmm... I had a similar issue running Vanilla 2 for development locally using OS X 10.6.2's Apache and PHP 5.3.0 set-up — I could see index.php just fine, but for anything else I'd get a "404 not found." This URL would work:
I wasn't able to get the RewriteBase working for me, so I tired to add this line to the top of my .htaccess and it works flawlessly. DirectoryIndex index.php/
didnt work for me. I am able to get to the index page now but all threads give me 404 errors now. Im on dreamhost. If there is no solution how do I uncheck the vanilla rewrite option as I am unable to uncheck it in the UI now.
I agree that RewriteBase is the key. If you've installed the forum in the root of your site then use: RewriteBase /
If the forum is in a subfolder, then
RewriteBase /subfolder/
You do have to be careful that when using Vanilla 2 in a subfolder you aren't messing with the rewriting for it in the site root too though (check the .htaccess in the site root to make sure that real directories are untouched).
Having trouble with DreamHost (or perhaps other hosts) with .htaccess or URL rewriting?
DreamHost's wiki suggests: "The FastCGI version when paired with Apache 2.2 doesn't seem to like the rewriterule index.php/$1. Instead it prefers index.php?$1 but some CMS don't like that."
Unfortunately, any combination of ? seems to short-circuit Vanilla 2 in its current form. The fastest fix? Swap from FastCGI to simple CGI.
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I have a fresh install on mediatemple grid server (installed last night) and I'm getting a 404 if I don't add the index.php to the end of the directory its in.
I'm on 2.0 Beta downloaded last night on github.
Anyone looking to run Vanillia 2 should not use a Mediatemple Gridserver.
No problem, I'm sure there will be a reasonable explanation as to why it seems to be doing that on (mt) gs hosting servers. I switched hosts and now have a copy of it running as it should. I've been involved in forums for many years, and love the new approach you're taking as its a nice fresh change from the same old stuff that's come out as of late.
http://localhost/~fred/forum2/index.php/activity
but this would 404:
http://localhost/~fred/forum2/activity
I added a RewriteBase directive to the .htaccess and that resolved things for me. Worth a shot! My final .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /~fred/forum2/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L] </IfModule>DirectoryIndex index.php/$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = FALSE;
still wondering why it doesnt like rewrite its probably a dreamhost thing.
RewriteBase /
If the forum is in a subfolder, then
RewriteBase /subfolder/
You do have to be careful that when using Vanilla 2 in a subfolder you aren't messing with the rewriting for it in the site root too though (check the .htaccess in the site root to make sure that real directories are untouched).
Paul
the 404 page is not appearing anymore, and every wrong url brings to a Fatal Error (!!!!)
here's the installation http://bsrappaz.fatbombers.com/v2/index.php/
and here's the htaccess
[code]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /v2/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]
[/code]
how could I bring back the 404 page?
what's the correct (default) setting for the routes configuration?
DreamHost's wiki suggests: "The FastCGI version when paired with Apache 2.2 doesn't seem to like the rewriterule index.php/$1. Instead it prefers index.php?$1 but some CMS don't like that."
Unfortunately, any combination of ? seems to short-circuit Vanilla 2 in its current form. The fastest fix? Swap from FastCGI to simple CGI.
See also: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Mod_rewrite#No_input_file_specified