Fully Installed, Not able to Post or Access Admin?

samuelbinns

I've been holding off posting to the support forum until I really need it, but now I need it. I've successfully installed Flarum, but anything I do is followed by: "The requested resource was not found."

I've come to the conclusion that it's because of the lack of this code:

<Directory "/path/to/your/forum">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

But I was fiddling with Wamp/Xampp all day long just to install this. Do I need to completely back track and use Wamp/Xampp to include that code? I have no idea where to put it. I also have no idea what "path/to/your/forum/" is. Is that the url or the directory of the folders that I was using on the computer rather than internet?

I am all set with mod_rewrite (I think!), but I just need that one bit of code figured out.

luceos

clarkwinkelmann As a sidenote, AllowOverride might be enabled by default on WAMP/XAMP, because it's expected for users to use .htaccess files. But not sure of this.

in case it's not enabled and you try to use the rewrite module of apache, you can expect a big fat error ?

The AllowOverride is a directive you cannot add to a htaccess.

samuelbinns in general you should be able to install flarum without any additional configuration, if you the headers module enabled. The htaccess should be in your flarum root path handling all url rewrites.

clarkwinkelmann

This bit of code should to in the Apache configuration file. Not sure where it's located though. In XAMP you can click the "Config" button in the management window to open that file.

The path is the full path to the folder where Flarum is installed on the PC. On Windows it will probably start with C:\.

The AllowOverride directive is the one that enables use of .htaccess files, so if it's not setup correctly all the other setting (like rewrite) are not applied because they are in the .htaccess ?

As a sidenote, AllowOverride might be enabled by default on WAMP/XAMP, because it's expected for users to use .htaccess files. But not sure of this.