Installation worked but site generating 403 / 404 errors

jgalvinjr

I know that’s very vague. I just installed v4 on a new server, and everything seemed to work (i.e. no errors). But when I hit the ‘/’ for the site I get a 403, and when I hit the ‘/admin’ for the site I get a 404. I have checked my Apache settings, and confirmed that .htaccess is in the right place.

I did make one mistake during installation, and I’m wondering if it is the source of my woes. When executing composer, I cut and paste the command from this site, and inadvertently left the ‘tastyigniter’ at the end unchanged. This caused composer to install the files in a sub-directory rather than the root directory for the site. Oops! So I used “mv * ../” to shift the whole directory up one level. Does that mess things up?

If so, is there a way to cleanly back the whole thing out and just start over? I’d kind of like to do that anyway, so that everything is perfectly clean.

Also, the ‘php artisan’ command didn’t prompt me for a username and password for the site. Only for MySQL username and password. Does it use the same one? That’s not really what I want.

Thank you!

jgalvinjr

Never mind. I got it working, so you can ignore this conversation.

I re-installed in the correct directory, and it still didn’t work. Turns out I needed to add “public” to the DocumentRoot and AllowOverride. The latter was mentioned on the installation doc page, but I don’t recall seeing the former anywhere. Perhaps I missed it.

Everything is working now! Happy holidays!

RRMik3

I’m having that same issue, I spend 8 hours on this yesterday and get no where. I’m using composer and this is my first time doing this. Can you provide some guidance. I really need to get this working. You can send me an email we can chat that will be great.

Thanks