Installation Ajax 404

[ethnt]

Hi, I'm trying to install Habari, but I keep getting this error
(where /projects/liff/ is the Habari root):

Server Response 404 Not Found Not Found The requested URL /projects/
liff/ajax/check_sqlite_credentials was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

Here is my .htaccess file:
### HABARI START
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteBase /projects/liff/
RewriteRule . index.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^(system/(classes|locale|schema|$)) index.php [PT]
### HABARI END

And the relating Apache logs:
[Wed Jun 30 16:28:55 2010] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /
var/www/projects/liff/check_mod_rewrite
[Wed Jun 30 16:28:56 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
exist: /var/www/projects/liff/favicon.ico
[Wed Jun 30 16:29:03 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
exist: /var/www/projects/liff/ajax, referer: http://localhost/projects/liff/

I've also tried it with SQLite (as opposed to MySQL) with similar
results.

Thanks,
Ethan

[Caius Durling]

On 30 Jun 2010, at 21:41, ethnt wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to install Habari, but I keep getting this error
> (where /projects/liff/ is the Habari root):
>
> Server Response 404 Not Found Not Found The requested URL /projects/
> liff/ajax/check_sqlite_credentials was not found on this server.
> Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

You either need to enable mod_rewrite (installed but not enabled by default on ubuntu - `sudo a2enmod rewrite` I think) or check that you've got AllowOverrides set in your httpd.conf / vhost config.

As it's ubuntu, I'm guessing you just need to enable mod rewrite though.

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[ethnt]

I have mod_rewrite installed. Should AllowOverrides be on or off in
httpd.conf?

[Caius Durling]

On 1 Jul 2010, at 16:30, ethnt wrote:

> I have mod_rewrite installed.

Is it enabled though? Unless $(ls /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ | grep rewrite) shows something, it's not enabled. (It's usually the reason the installer doesn't work on an ubuntu machine, hence why I suspect it's that :)

> Should AllowOverrides be on or off in
> httpd.conf?

Err, whatever the default is in the ubuntu config iirc. Easy enough to test, just put crap in the .htaccess and see if apache bombs out when you load the installer.