29 December 2011, 18:07

Hi

I feel like an idiot ...

I've installed hundreds of php apps in the past, but I cannot get it running with mahara !

I followed the installation guide and have the following dir structure:

/var/www/mahara

/var/maharadata

both dirs belong to www-data user with 755 permissions

All the settings seem to be ok in config.php, the database has utf8_general_ci collation

But when I write in my browser the URL http://localhost/mahara 

it takes me back to the following URL

http://localhost/admin

and I get a 404 not found error

Could you help me to fix this problem? Thank you very much in advance,

Rod.

P.D: Other settings/configuration:

Mahara 1.4.1. Ubuntu 11.10, PHP 5.3.6.13 (cURL enabled), mysql5.1.58

config.php:

$cfg->dbtype   = 'mysql5';
$cfg->dbhost   = 'localhost';
$cfg->dbport   = null;
$cfg->dbname   = 'mahara';
$cfg->dbuser   = 'mahara';
$cfg->dbpass   = 'mypass';

$cfg->dataroot = '/var/maharadata';

29 December 2011, 19:40

Hi, have you tried setting this here in config.php?

// wwwroot - the web-visible path to your Mahara installation
// Normally, this is automatically detected - if it doesn't work for you
// then try specifying it here
$cfg->wwwroot = 'http://localhost/mahara';

30 December 2011, 4:05

Hi Dirk

thanks! that seemed to be the problem.

Actually, I put the "/" at the end, just in case:

$cfg->wwwroot="http://localhost/mahara/";

Cheers,

Rod

03 January 2012, 22:25

Hello Rod,

The best guide for installing Mahara on your own computer under Ubuntu is The Developer Environment page that Francois put together. Please note, it is a guide for postgres, but a number of the settings should be the same.

I've been using that numerous times to set up an environment on my computer for tesing purposes without problems.

Cheers

Kristina