When installing Elgg 1.8.0.1, I got the following message:
I can't find any information about how to fix this error. Please help. Thanks
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You must log in to post replies.The installer thinks you have an .htaccess file from a previous version of Elgg in the root directory.
I had Elgg 1.7.12 installed but I was having problems with it so I installed 1.8.0.1. I removed all the previous files. I tried deleting the .htaccess file and re-installing it. What do I do?
I installed 1.8.0.1 locally about a week ago on my macbook. My .htaccess for 1.8.0.1 looks like this. I added the following to my apache2/httpd.conf and apache2/users/[usersname].conf (must also configure user otherwise it overrides httpd.conf) and enabled mod_rewrite.
<Directory "/path/to/http/root/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I installed elgg to /path/to/http/root/elgg/html/ and data at /path/to/http/root/elgg/data/
Youll also need to check/set the permissions on elgghtmldir and elggdatadir. I think that's all i did to set it up (other than database). Hope it helps.
I really do not know anything about coding. Can you (or anyone) please be more clear on how exactly to fix this issue??
Delete .htaccess
It may be hidden on your server since it begins with a .
i tried deleting htaccess_dist but that didnt work so I reuploaded it and renamed it .htaccess and that worked.
Now I am on step 4. Configure site and it is saying "Your data directory /root/data/ does not exist."
It exists, the location is correct. How do I fix this?
anyone please??
The permissions of the directory might not allow the apache webserver to access this directory. I think /root/data is in the home directory of the root user account (at least in Linux it is), so the read/write permissions might be for the root user only. It might be better to create the data directory not in the /root directory and you also need to set the read/write permissions to 777, i.e. permissions for the owner, the group and others to read/write to this directory, or at least to allow read/write access for the user account the webserver is running as.