Unable to install indexu

[stevekcnet]

New to indexU and after setting things up and following the readme, when I attempt to go to the install I see the following errors.

on the webpage I get: Error 500 The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script

looking at the log files I see multiple entries of this: W:/wwwroot/mydomain/.htaccess: RewriteEngine not allowed here

the mod_rewrite engine is on and it is becoming quite frustrating.

Any ideas or help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Steve

[stevekcnet]

This may have already been addressed but I see no reference manual for this product anywhere. I wanted to add that this is running in an apache environment on Windows Server 2003.

[user_not_found]

open .htacess and
#Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
switch to off
if you still face problem remove .htacess
I suggest to go somewhere else rewrite is very importand

[dody]

Try to add RewriteBase

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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If above solution doesn't work, I see that IIS has different mod-rewrite writing pattern. Instead of using .htaccess it use xml file. For more detail please check here: Translate .htaccess Content to IIS web.config : Host Applications on the Microsoft Web Platform : Running PHP Applications on IIS : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I suggest to use linux hosting if you still have this problem.

[stevekcnet]

well I tried that and no joy...if I remove the htaccess file and try to do the install I can go through the steps. To clarify, this is a windows 2003 server but apache, mysql and php are running under XAMPP. IIS isn't installed on this machine.

[dody]

I develop under windows with xampp too.

Did you make any changes on apache conf file ? (c:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf). Make sure to set AllowOverride All under document root. This setting is by default.

<Directory "C:/xampplite/htdocs">

    # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    #
    AllowOverride All

Did you change document root to somewhere else other than C:/xampplite/htdocs ?

[stevekcnet]

Thanks I got it working now...just a typo... having one other issue after setting everything up on the register portion of the site when you add a username password etc it says it sends the email; however, the email never shows up at its intended destination. I am using SMTP, no Auth, correct host name and port. As I said no email is delivered.????

[dody]

Email is different thing. XAMPP don't have email server. You should install and configure email server

I wish I could help you with setting email server, but I don't use it. I usually test emailing on linux server.