PW not installing correctly - admin not found

[antknight]

If anybody has just installed MAMP and is getting the problem whereby you can access the homepage of a fresh PW installation but no other page or the admin area, one solution that has worked for me:

OSX: Navigate to /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache and open the file called httpd.conf

or

Windoze: C:\MAMP\conf\apache

Find where it says:

    # 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 None

And change it to:

    # 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

Then restart your MAMP servers

Hope that helps

[bombemedia]

Had the same problem, and it turned out to be a classic: On Ubuntu, the default Apache configuration has turned off the "AllowOverride" setting for /var/www, so I had to edit my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default file like this (the changed part in bold text):

From:

    <Directory /var/www/>

        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

        AllowOverride None 

        Order allow,deny

        allow from all

    </Directory>

 

To:

 

    <Directory /var/www/>

        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

        AllowOverride All 

        Order allow,deny

        allow from all

    </Directory>

... and then restart apache with:

sudo service apache2 restart

(Didn't even need to change the RewriteBase setting in my .htaccess file, although I have a subfolder named "procwire")

Hope this helps!

Hi, ran in from a Google search and this solved my problem !

I had to setup a VPS on Digital Ocean because my shared host is... a shared host hehe.

Now it's running perfectly, thank you very much !

[Robert2015]

Thanks Saml post #11, this worked for me on Mint 17.

Only difference is that I edited my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Now I'm ready to give PW a go.