Setup run tries to access path /setup/start, which doesn't exist.

[lazertis]

Dear all,

First of all, I tried the LinkAce Demo and liked it very much, great tool! I'm very excited to use it on my own server (hosted by Hetzner as well btw :)).

Unfortunately, I get problems when trying the initial setup, which points to a non existing URL "/setup/start".

Envorinment:

• Rocky Linux 9
• Apache 2.4.53
• PHP 8.2.8 (running as php-fdm), all extensions according to setup docs installed

Done:

• Unzipped linkace 1.12.2 into a new subdir /var/www/html/linkace
• copied .env.example to .env, no further editing
• chown'ed whole directory recursively to User apache (as used by apache and php-fdm)
• ran "php artisan key:generate" -> "INFO Application key set successfully."
• created Subdomain linkace.mydomain.de in DNS ("mydomain" is anonymized :))
• created vHost for Domain pointing (DocumentRoot) to /var/www/html/linkace/public/

When now trying "https://linkace.mydomain.de/" in Browser, it is redirecting to "https://linkace.mydomain.de/setup/start", which doesn't exist (Status 404).

There is no setup dir inside linkace tree /var/www/html/linkace nor is there any other file or directory created during this first run. access_log only point to the 404, no entry in error_log.

Do you have any idea, what went wrong here or what I can check additionally?

Thank you very much for your support! :)
Elmar

[Kovah]

Hi, it is correct that there is no setup directory. If your web server (Apache) is not loading /setup/start, please make sure that mod_rewrite (guide) is loaded, and that the /public/.htaccess file is present.

[lazertis]

Hi, thanks for the quick answer!

Actually, rewrite is already enabled:

[root@gort conf.modules.d]# grep -i rewrite *
00-base.conf:LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

[root@gort conf.modules.d]# httpd -M | grep rewrite
 rewrite_module (shared)

...but the failure is still on my side as I forgot to enable the directives in existing .htaccess:

		<Directory "/var/www/html/linkace/public/">
			AllowOverride All
		</Directory>

That did the job. Thanks anyway, you're rewrite hint pointed me into the right direction. :)

Greetings
Elmar