Check permissions configuration
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sddroog
Joined: 2005-02-01
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Posted: Wed, 2009-10-28 09:36
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When selecting 'Edit Permissions' I always got the error about mod_rewrite and AllowOverwrite. I knew that my system was configured correctly, so I investigated why this error occurred. It turned out that it is because my server cannot resolve its own hostname. If I add the website name to the hostfile (/etc/hosts) everything works fine. Why doesn't the system use localhost? |
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huh? Works just fine on my servers, 1 server I setup myself with several installs of G3 and G2 and 1 server at a shared host with G3 installed under 3 different domains there. I've not had to add entries to /etc/hosts and I know for a fact my shared host only has 1 entry in /etc/hosts (as I just looked) and that's for the localhost.
My guess from your description is that something isn't setup correctly.
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I assume that all those installs of G2 and G3 are somehow defined in a DNS or other system so the server knows how to resolve the website name to itself. Otherwise it can not work. I searched some more and another user (danjoh) had the same issue I did, here: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/88167#comment-310481
The function htaccess_works() in access.php calls remote::do_request and that can only work if the 'remote' system can be found. If the system doesn't know how to resolve the hostname it fails.
You might call that a setup error. For testing websites I do that all the time, no need to define a DNS entry for a website that is not in production. I just declare it in my desktop's local hostfile.
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Yes, all my sites are public facing and have public URLs defined in DNS.
I guess you'll need to create entries in /etc/hosts or build sites under a valid domain, like www.example.com/newsite or create sub-domains newsite.example.com
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