I made it work... kind of (Internal server error / 404 errors).

wwwill

Hi everyone.
Here is the thing.
I installed Flarum thru Composer on my local machine and uploaded the entire directory to my host.
I know it is not the way it is supposed to be done.
But before that, I tried another way ; installing Flarum thru Plesk which includes Composer.
But anyway, it is not the point of my message.

As many of you, I had a "Internal server error" when I tried to access it via http://forum.domain.tld
I discovered in the logs, that it was a 404 error.
I thought it could not find the index.php file.
I replaced it with my own with phpinfo in it : it works.
So I tried to access to http://forum.domain.tld/index.php.
No 404 error on the index file but 404 error on css and js files, as it was looking for http://forum.domain.tld/index.php/assets/xxxxx.js

I ended up replacing the .htaccess file with one I wrote (first time, so be kind) :

  Rewriterule ^index.php/assets/(.*)$ /assets/$1 [PT]
  RewriteRule ^index.php/vendor/(.*)?$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^index.php/storage/(.*)?$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^index.php/config.php$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^index.php/.git/(.*)?$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^index.php/api(.*)$ api.php [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^index.php/admin(.*)$ admin.php [QSA,L]
  RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_FILENAME}" "!-f"
  RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_FILENAME}" "!-d"
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://forum.domain.tld/index.php [R,L]

And now, it kind of works, but my URLs are all like http://forum.domain.tld/index.php/d/1-test instead of http://forum.domain.tld/d/1-test

Where do you think I have an issue ?
Thanks

luceos

wwwill

  Rewriterule ^assets/(.*)$ /assets/$1 [PT]
  RewriteRule ^vendor/(.*)?$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^storage/(.*)?$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^config.php$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^.git/(.*)?$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^api(.*)$ api.php [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^admin(.*)$ admin.php [QSA,L]
  RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_FILENAME}" "!-f"
  RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_FILENAME}" "!-d"
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://forum.domain.tld/index.php [R,L]

all those index.php in it is not correct, you should stick to the default one provided during installation:

  RewriteRule ^vendor/(.*)?$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^storage/(.*)?$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^config.php$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^.git/(.*)?$ / [F,L]

  RewriteRule ^api(.*)$ api.php [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^admin(.*)$ admin.php [QSA,L]

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule !^assets index.php [QSA,L]

BlackSheep

wwwill I discovered in the logs, that it was a 404 error.

wwwill I thought it could not find

What was the error exactly ?

wwwill

luceos Maybe my message was not clear enough.
My .htaccess works for me.

But I want to understand why I have an error "Cannot GET" when I try to access the root (which is a 404 in the Apache log) but it displays the page when I access to index.php (which is the reason why I have to force the index.php in my .htaccess)

It makes the same problem when I remove the .htaccess. and there is nothing in the logs I can find on my hosting.

Beta6.

luceos

wwwill My .htaccess works for me.

I think you meant "seems to work", because whatever security measures are in the original .htaccess are now not working at all. Just saying, investigate further why the original htaccess is not working instead of randomly prepending a script file onto every rule. ?

wwwill

luceos "kind of work" or "seems to work", just a question of terms. But yes, you got the point. I didn't come here saying that there was an issue I solved with a new magical .htaccess. I came here asking what could lead to my setup responding "404 Error" when I try to access http://forum.domain.tld and "200 OK" when I access http://forum.domain.tld/index.php
And I don't think it is a .htaccess error, because if I replace the index.php by another one, it works with the original .htaccess file.

BlackSheep Here is what happens in my Plesk logs (Apache logs)
When I go to http://forum.domain.tld :

2016-11-25 11:14:14 Error xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 404 GET / HTTP/1.0

When I go to http://forum.domain.tld/index.php :

2016-11-25 11:15:21 Access xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 200 GET /index.php HTTP/1.0
2016-11-25 11:15:21 Error xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 404 GET /index.php/assets/forum-6c0a2067.js HTTP/1.0
2016-11-25 11:15:21 Error xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 404 GET /index.php/assets/forum-en-df77f08d.js HTTP/1.0
2016-11-25 11:15:21 Error xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 404 GET /index.php/assets/forum-50a6e57b.css HTTP/1.0
2016-11-25 11:15:22 Error xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 404 GET /index.php/assets/forum-6c0a2067.js HTTP/1.0
2016-11-25 11:15:23 Error xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 404 GET /index.php/assets/forum-en-df77f08d.js HTTP/1.0

BlackSheep

wwwill The webserver should not search for /index.php/assetsit's not a directory. What is your config in the config.php file located at the root of Flarum ?

wwwill

BlackSheep Dammit !!! 'url' => 'http://forum.domain.tld/index.php'
I try to change that and I will let you know.

luceos

BlackSheep Great call!

BlackSheep

wwwill It should work now ? Typos are the worst !

wwwill

BlackSheep YOU ARE THE BEST !
I am so happy it works ! ?
Now let's make it work full https and I will make it public ?

BlackSheep

wwwill You might want to check that now : https://discuss.flarum.org/d/2649-davis-secure-https ?

wwwill

One last word : I didn't write the config.php file, but I probably accessed the first time using http://forum.domain.tld/index.php and Flarum's installation script took it as the base address.
I think there is a little bug to correct there.

wwwill

One more last word : now the http://forum.domain.tld/index.php gives me a 404 error. No big deal, but still.
(it is the same for https://discuss.flarum.org/index.php)

BlackSheep

wwwill It's normal i think.

jordanjay29

wwwill Yes, there's no index.php landing page. You could create one and redirect to forum.domain.tld so that users aren't screwed up by erroneous links.

wwwill

jordanjay29 I have a index.php with this inside :

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$server = new Flarum\Forum\Server(__DIR__);
$server->listen();

jordanjay29

wwwill Hmm, you're right. My bad.