trubble installing elgg

[cruz]

I have debian perfect setup. I am trying to install elgg. If I keep the .htacess file in the root dir the install gives me a 500 error. If I take out the file I can get to the install. What is in this file that is giving me trubble and how can I fix it? Thanks in advance.

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    # ugly ugly hack to detect missing mod_rewrite
    # RedirectMatch must be to an absolute destination, so forces 500 error...
    ErrorDocument 500 "Elgg error: Apache does not have mod_rewrite loaded. Please check your apache setup."
    RedirectMatch 302 .* index.php
</IfModule>

<Files "htaccess-dist">
    order allow,deny
    deny from all
</Files>

# Don't listing directory
Options -Indexes

# Follow symbolic links
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Default handler
DirectoryIndex index.php

# php 4, apache 1.x
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
	# default memory limit to 32Mb
	php_value memory_limit 32M
	# to make sure register global is off
	php_value register_globals 0
	# max post size to 8Mb
	php_value post_max_size 8388608
	# upload size limit to 5Mb	
	php_value upload_max_filesize 5242880
	# hide errors, enable only if debug enabled
	php_value display_errors 0
</IfModule>

# php 4, apache 2
<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
	# default memory limit to 32Mb
	php_value memory_limit 32M
	# to make sure register global is off
	php_value register_globals 0
	# max post size to 8Mb
	php_value post_max_size 8388608
	# upload size limit to 5Mb	
	php_value upload_max_filesize 5242880
	# hide errors, enable only if debug enabled
	php_value display_errors 0
</IfModule>

# php 5, apache 1 and 2
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
	# default memory limit to 32Mb
	php_value memory_limit 32M
	# to make sure register global is off
	php_value register_globals 0
	# max post size to 8Mb
	php_value post_max_size 8388608
	# upload size limit to 5Mb	
	php_value upload_max_filesize 5242880
	# hide errors, enable only if debug enabled
	php_value display_errors 0
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine on

# If Elgg is in a subdirectory on your site, you might need to add a RewriteBase line
# containing the path from your site root to elgg's root. e.g. If your site is
# http://example.com/ and Elgg is in http://example.com/sites/elgg/, you might need 
#
#RewriteBase /sites/elgg/
#
# here, only without the # in front.
#
# If you're not running Elgg in a subdirectory on your site, but still getting lots
# of 404 errors beyond the front page, you could instead try:
#
#RewriteBase /

# Pages
###########
RewriteRule ^content\/?(.*)?$ mod/pages/index.php?owner=-1&page=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/content\/(.*)?$ mod/pages/index.php?profile_name=$1&page=$2  [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^_templates(\/)?$ mod/template/index.php?%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^_templates\/edit.php$ mod/template/edit.php?%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^_templates\/preview.php$ mod/template/preview.php?%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^_templates/css/(.+)$ mod/template/css.php?template=$1

RewriteRule ^(.+)\/rssstyles.xsl$ mod/newsclient/styles.php?rssurl=$1&url=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/dashboard(\/)?$ mod/adash/index.php?user=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/profile(\/)?$ profile/index.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/tags(\/)?$ search/personaltags.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/rss\/(.+)\/?$ profile/rss2.php?profile_name=$1&tag=$2

# Invite
#########
RewriteRule ^invite\/$ mod/invite/index.php
ReWriteRule ^invite\/join\/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ mod/invite/join.php?invitecode=$1
ReWriteRule ^register$ mod/invite/register.php
RewriteRule ^forgottenpassword$ mod/invite/forgotten_password.php
RewriteRule ^newpassword\/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ mod/invite/new_password.php?passwordcode=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)(\/)?$ profile/index.php?profile_name=$1

# Activity
###########
RewriteRule ^_activity\/$ mod/activity/index.php
RewriteRule ^_activity\/index.php$ mod/activity/index.php?%{QUERY_STRING}

# Communities
##############
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/communities\/?$ mod/community/index.php?friends_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/communities\/owned$ mod/community/owned.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/communities\/new$ mod/community/new.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/delete$ mod/community/index.php?profile_name=$1&action=community:delete
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/requests$ mod/community/requests.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/requests\/aprove\/([0-9]+)$ mod/community/requests.php?profile_name=$1&action=community:approve:request&request_id=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/requests\/decline\/([0-9]+)$ mod/community/requests.php?profile_name=$1&action=community:decline:request&request_id=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/members$ mod/community/members.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/add\/([0-9]+)$ mod/community/index.php?friends_name=$1&friend_id=$2&action=friend
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/leave\/([0-9]+)$ mod/community/index.php?profile_name=$1&friend_id=$2&action=leave
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/separate\/([0-9]+)$ mod/community/members.php?profile_name=$1&friend_id=$2&action=separate
RewriteRule ^community\/([0-9]+)\/?$ mod/communities/community.php?community_id=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/invite$ mod/community/invite.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/communities\/invitations$ mod/community/user_community_invitations.php?profile_name=$1

# Files
########
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/?$ mod/file/index.php?files_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/([0-9]+)\/?$ mod/file/index.php?files_name=$1&folder=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/([0-9\-]+)\/([0-9]+)\/(.+)$ mod/file/download.php?files_name=$1&folder=$2&filename=$4&id=$3
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9])[A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/rss\/?$ mod/newsclient/static.php?username=$1&userref=$2&type=files
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/rss\/(.+)\/?$ mod/file/rss2.php?files_name=$1&tag=$2
RewriteRule ^_icon\/file/([-0-9]+)$ mod/file/icon.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^_files\/icon.php$ mod/file/icon.php?%{QUERY_STRING}

# Friends
##########
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/friends\/?$ mod/friend/index.php?friends_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/friendsof\/?$ mod/friend/friendsof.php?friends_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/friends\/requests?$ mod/friend/requests.php?friends_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/foaf\/?$ mod/friend/foaf.php?friends_name=$1

# Icons
########
RewriteRule ^_icons\/$ mod/icons/index.php
RewriteRule ^_icon\/user/([-0-9]+)$ mod/icons/icon.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^_icon\/user/([-0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z])\/([0-9]+)$ mod/icons/icon.php?id=$1&constraint1=$2&size1=$3
RewriteRule ^_icon\/user/([-0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z])\/([0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z])\/([0-9]+)$ mod/icons/icon.php?id=$1&constraint1=$2&size1=$3&constraint2=$4&size2=$5

# Tags
###########

RewriteRule ^tag\/(.+)\/?$ search/all.php?tag=$1
RewriteRule ^rsstag\/(.+)\/?$ search/rss.php?tag=$1
RewriteRule ^tag\/(.+)/ecl\/?$ search/ecl.php?tag=$1


# Newsclient
############
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9])[A-Za-z0-9]+)\/rss\/?$ mod/newsclient/static.php?username=$1&userref=$2&type=profile
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/newsclient\/?$ mod/newsclient/subscriptions.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/newsclient\/all\/?$ mod/newsclient/index.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/newsclient\/all\/skip=([0-9]+)$ mod/newsclient/index.php?profile_name=$1&feed_offset=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/feeds\/?$ mod/newsclient/subscriptions.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/feeds\/all\/?$ mod/newsclient/index.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/feeds\/all\/skip=([0-9]+)$ mod/newsclient/index.php?profile_name=$1&feed_offset=$2
RewriteRule ^_rss\/([A-Za-z_]+).php$ mod/newsclient/$1.php?%{QUERY_STRING}

# Users
########
RewriteRule ^_userdetails\/$ mod/users/index.php?%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^_userdetails\/index.php$ mod/users/index.php?%{QUERY_STRING}

# Weblog
########
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/?$ mod/blog/index.php?weblog_name=$1
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/skip=([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/index.php?weblog_name=$1&weblog_offset=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/edit$ mod/blog/edit.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/edit\/([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/edit.php?profile_name=$1&weblog_post_id=$2&action=edit
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/archive\/?$ mod/blog/archive.php?weblog_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/archive\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/?$ mod/blog/archive_month.php?weblog_name=$1&year=$2&month=$3
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/friends\/?$ mod/blog/friends.php?weblog_name=$1
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/friends\/skip=([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/friends.php?weblog_name=$1&weblog_offset=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/interesting\/?$ mod/blog/interesting.php?weblog_name=$1
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/interesting\/skip=([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/interesting.php?weblog_name=$1&weblog_offset=$2
RewriteRule ^[A-Za-z0-9]+\/weblog\/([0-9]+)\.html$ mod/blog/view_post.php?post=$1
RewriteRule ^[A-Za-z0-9]+\/weblog\/([0-9]+)\.html.([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/view_post.php?post=$1&commentpage=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/rss\/(.+)\/?$ mod/blog/rss2.php?weblog_name=$1&tag=$2&modifier=is
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/rssnot\/(.+)\/?$ mod/blog/rss2.php?weblog_name=$1&tag=$2&modifier=not
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9])[A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/rss\/?$ mod/newsclient/static.php?username=$1&userref=$2&type=weblog
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/category\/([^\/]+)\/?$ mod/blog/index.php?weblog_name=$1&filter=$2
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/category\/([^\/]+)\/skip=([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/index.php?weblog_name=$1&filter=$2&weblog_offset=$3
ReWriteRule ^weblog\/everyone$ mod/blog/everyone.php
ReWriteRule ^weblog\/everyone\/(people|communities|commented|uncommented)$ mod/blog/everyone.php?filter=$1
ReWriteRule ^weblog\/everyone\/skip\/([0-9]+.*)$ mod/blog/everyone.php?weblog_offset=$1


# Some blogging clients probe Wordpress or MoveableType endpoints,
# redirect them to the Elgg xml-rpc endpoint
#
RewriteRule xml-rpc.php _rpc/RPC2.php
RewriteRule mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi _rpc/RPC2.php

# Rewrite rules for rpc transition to mod/ in v0.9+ so we don't break things
#
RewriteRule ^_rpc/RPC2.php$ mod/rpc/RPC2.php
RewriteRule ^_rpc/rsd.php$ mod/rpc/rsd.php?%{QUERY_STRING}

</IfModule>

[falko]

Is mod_rewrite enabled? Are there any errors in Apache's error log?
Which distribution are you using?

[cruz]

Yes mod_rewrite is installed and enabled. It is elgg-0.9.2. I am trying to install. I see in the docs this.

Your  Apache configuration  must have AllowOverride set to All for the directory where Elgg is installed.

How do I check this? Thanks. There are no errors in apache because I did not try to install without the.htaccess file and it will not bring up the install with it in the root. I am using Apache 2.2
New info...I was looking in the vhost for the site I am trying to setup elgg on and this is what is in there.

<Directory /var/www/web4/web>
   Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   allow from all
   AddHandler mod_python .py
   PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
   PythonDebug On
 </Directory>

Dose this need to be changed? if so please tell me what to change and why so I can understand. thanks

[falko]

Please change

AllowOverride None

to

AllowOverride All

and restart Apache.

[koltz]

I am having the same issue, but not sure where the vhost is located. I found the main vhosts file, but not sure where the individual ones are located as you are mentioning in the thread?

Thanks,

Corey

[falko]

Which distribution are you using?

[Christian]

I'm using "The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 9.04 [ISPConfig 3]" install and i'm installing elgg.

But when I want to install the crontab I get the following error:

"crontab.example":8: bad minute
errors in crontab file, can't install.

I must ad to this that i'm not installing the elgg to the root folder
"/var/www/www.website.com/web" but in a subdirectory
"/var/www/www.website.com/web/elgg" so I also placed "/data/" at "/www/data/".
Further I followed the How To.

Can anyone help?

[falko]

What's in crontab.example?

[Christian]

Hi Falko,

This is what I have in my crontab (It's the default list btw)

# Crontab example.
#
# This file is an example of triggering Elgg cron events. Modify and register events 
# as appropriate.
#
# See http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Cron for more information
#
# @author Marcus Povey

# Location of GET (see: http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/What_is_get)
GET='/usr/bin/GET'

# Location of your site (don't forget the trailing slash!)
ELGG='http://www.mywebsite.com/'

# The crontab
# Don't edit below this line!
@reboot $GET ${ELGG}pg/cron/reboot/
* * * * * $GET ${ELGG}pg/cron/minute/
*/5 * * * * $GET ${ELGG}pg/cron/fiveminute/
15,30,45,59 * * * * $GET ${ELGG}pg/cron/fifteenmin/
30,59 * * * * $GET ${ELGG}pg/cron/halfhour/
@hourly $GET ${ELGG}pg/cron/hourly/
@daily $GET ${ELGG}pg/cron/daily/
@weekly $GET ${ELGG}pg/cron/weekly/
@monthly $GET ${ELGG}pg/cron/monthly/
@yearly $GET ${ELGG}pg/cron/yearly/

[falko]

Looks ok. You can run

crontab -e

manually and paste the contents of that file.