[SOLVED] Friendly URLs are not working for me on v4.x install but do in v3.x

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SS version 4.2.1

Hello, I’m trying to install SS v4.2.1 from scratch and the installer dies with:

Friendly URLs are not working. This is most likely because a rewrite module isn’t configured correctly on your site. You may need to get your web host or server administrator to do this for you:

* **mod_rewrite**  or other rewrite module is enabled on your web server
* **AllowOverride All**  is set for the directory where SilverStripe is installed

I’ve verified with my hosting service that mod_rewrite is enabled and AllowOverride All is set. I can prove it by uninstalling v4.x and installing v3.x. Everything works as it should with v3. Has something drastically changed in the way the installer detects these two settings? I read a post where the user edited an installer file and forced a return value to fake out the installer, but that did not seem to work for me.

Does anyone have any ideas where I should start looking to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

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A couple of questions:

How did you get the SS code? (composer, downloaded zip?)
Have you got your hosting configured to use the public directory as the web root?

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I used composer to install both v4.x and 3.x versions. My web root is public_html and SS is installed inside of that directory. As an experiment I installed SS 4.x on my local WAMP server and it works flawlessly.

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Can you tell us a bit more about the hosting platform you’re having trouble with?

What server it uses, webserver software, are you using the public directory structure, if so - have you set the document root to the right place, etc. ?

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It is a shared hosting account on BlueHost.com. Yes, I’m using the public directory structure, but not sure how to check document root. AFAIK it’s the “public_html” that SS is installed in.

Apache Version: 2.4.34
PHP Version: 7.0.31
MySQL Version: 5.6.39-83.1
Architecture: x86_64
Operating System: linux

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Might be something to look into. I thought that the line “RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1” in the .htaccess file was supposed to redirect web access to the /public directory. Isn’t that how the initial install.php script gets run?

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Maybe worth checking with them and seeing if it’s possible. In a default SS4 install with the public directory, you want to point the web root at that (so in your case it would be something like '/full/path/public_html/public' )

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A post was split to a new topic: Issue with SS4 install on Mac

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[SOLVED] Simply change the permissions on /public/index.php from 755 to 644. Everything works for me now!