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Submitted by ckennard on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 04:15.

Hi,
I'm trying to install Mahara onto a SUSE Linux box and I'm having problems. I've followed the instructions and put all of the files/directories (htdocs etc) into a folder called mahara in my webserver. When I try the installation through the webbrowser I put in www.mysitename/mahara and get some folders and documents including one called Test but not a folder called htdocs so I can't get any further. I've checked the server and htdocs does exist. I've tried taking the files out of htdocs and putting them straight into the mahara folder but then I get a blank white screen (no error messages) when I put in the URL.

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I'm not sure what exactly is

Submitted by nigel on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 09:58.

I'm not sure what exactly is wrong there, but you might find your server error log will give you more information about what is broken. It's normally in /var/log/apache2 or /var/log/httpd

There's no indication of an

Submitted by ckennard on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 21:11.

There's no indication of an error in any of the past server error logs. I can get the files and folders to open in mahara/test/selenium/ including the basic-install/ folder but these just produce flat pages with no options.

Carl.

Just double checked and

Submitted by ckennard on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 21:14.

Just double checked and there actually is an error report:

/mahara/htdocs/.htaccess: php_flag not allowed here

Is that any help?

Yes, it means you have

Submitted by nigel on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 09:40.

Yes, it means you have AllowOverride None set for that virtual host. You should set that to AllowOverride All.

On http://www.mahara.org/wiki/En/Sysadmin_Guide/Installing_Mahara , see the section about shared hosting.

If you can't set AllowOverride All, then comment out the php_flag lines and see if the site loads then.