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Robert C replied on the discussion topic Installation fails with "The site secret is not set." 1340 days ago

I'm going to try getting this information included in the documentation so that it's not so painful for others to get this information in the future. A patch has been landed into the 3.3 branch (which, as I understand, will propagate... view reply
- Robert C@robertc
Robert C replied on the discussion topic Installation fails with "The site secret is not set." 1347 days ago

I took some time to move on to other things in my project and came back to this problem last week. With a little bit of assistance from someone who is more familiar than I am with administrating CentOS, I found what needs to be done in order to make... view reply
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Robert C replied on the discussion topic Installation fails with "The site secret is not set." 1386 days ago

@Nikolai: That thread is still revolving around permissions issues with the elgg directories. I've already checked all of that several times over. I use CentOS because I'm familiar with the Red Hat ecosystem and use it for all of my... view reply
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Robert C replied on the discussion topic Installation fails with "The site secret is not set." 1387 days ago

Hi, Thanks for replying so quickly. I have triple-checked and can tell you for certain that `apache:apache` owns all of /var/www/html and all children, including /var/www/html/elgg-config. It also has the correct SELinux context... view reply
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Robert C added a new discussion topic Installation fails with "The site secret is not set." in the group Elgg Technical Support 1387 days ago

Following http://learn.elgg.org/en/stable/intro/install.html , installation abruptly stops with "The site secret is not set". Doesn't matter if I do it through the web installer (by visiting mypage.example/install.php ) or by using...
- Nikolai Shcherbin@rivervanrain
  
  Nikolai Shcherbin 1347 days ago
  Thanks for sharing!
- Steve Clay@steve_clay
  
  Steve Clay 1340 days ago
  Robert, you should definitely report this as a bug in Elgg (failures are not being logged) but can you please see if you can find a docker image that most matches your system (ideally with Apache/PHP)? We can then have a shot at reproducing this locally.
- Robert C@robertc
  
  Robert C 1340 days ago
  I'm going to try getting this information included in the documentation so that it's not so painful for others to get this information in the future.
  A patch has been landed into the 3.3 branch (which, as I understand, will propagate elsewhere) which updates the documentation to mention the SELinux contexts and booleans, so hopefully more people will see the note in the documentation and get it right the first time. :)
  
  @Steve Clay - I'm not familiar with Docker, so I'm not really sure what exactly you're asking me to produce for you. The system in question is a vanilla CentOS 8 amd64 virtual machine that was installed straight from the DVD image with SELinux left in 'enforcing' mode, so chances are good you might be able to find such a thing on your own?
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