Definitive guide to solve 'Rewritebase' - errror

[demian]

Hi,

This is my second post on this subject at this forum.
I have tried to install phpfreechat 2.0.x on my website but was unable to get it to work.

The problem i get notified with is :

mod_rewrite must be enabled server side and correctly configured. "RewriteBase" could be adjusted in server/.htaccess file.

First, i need to mention that i find there is a lack of support on this problem.
When i reed this forum, half of the topics is about this problem and there are only a few who got it to work (by themselves as it seems)

I have tried all way's editing my .htaccess in root and in /server but nothing works.

For me, it seems the problem is not in .htaccess or mod_rewrite being on, but an incompatibility issue with several server configurations and phpfreechat.

Also i am wondering why there is so little information on this subject in the DOC's and forum.
A lot of people seems to have this problem, i see topics being reed for more than 3000 times and still not response from a moderator or developer.

I think it is a bit strange to write a complex peace of software as phpfreechat and than don't make a fix or good doc about this subject.

I spend several hours now to get it to work, also bothered my webhost several times about it, left one question on the forum here which remains unanswered.

Understand me well, i am not trying to be obtrusive, but i am almost there abandoning this peace of software.
However, i had good experiences with phpfreechat 1.x.x for several years, so i want to try it one more time to get 2.x.x to work, but than i need some help.
Also i can imagine people are abandoning this software because of this problem and the lack off support.

Allright, i hope someone picks this up and there will come a fix for the problem or a workarround or a good documentation of the needed edits for several configurations people can have with apache.

For me..

I am running my site on a virtualhost, my websitename is an alias of another domain on the same webhost, but that was no problem in the past when using phpfreechat 1.x.x or other software

I have .htaccess in root

Rewritebase /

And .htaccess in Server

Rewritebase /server

Everything is put in root, so i have

/client
/server
..
etc..

Mod_rewrite is on, i get no slim-errors and ofcourse i edited the links in html to the right paths.

What can i do ?

[phpfreechat]

Please could you provide me a link to your chat installation ?

[demian]

Hi,
I have sent you a pm.

Cheers,
Demian

[phpfreechat]

It seems that you don't allow .htaccess on your apache installation.
Try to change "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride All" in your global apache vhost configuration.
And restart apache.

[demian]

I am in doubt if thats the case.

I used .htaccess for this domain to rewrite urls until i wiped all data yesterday to make a fresh i installation with phpfreechat 2.x.x

Also i have 15 other aliases on the same host running, all using .htaccess to rewrite urls.

But, i have quoted your message and supplied my webhost with it, i wait with what they will come up with.

Thanks so far.

[demian]

The support of my webhost let me just now they didn't found anything strange in their configuration.

Next week i am going to read some of the source of phpfreechat and see if i can hack my self a way in.

To bee continued.

[phpfreechat]

You could try to follow these ideas to be sure allowoverride is enabled in your installation:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7137 ... -using-php

[demian]

Thanks, i'll have a look in a few days.

[demian]

I have used another way to check if .htaccess was working, just put a simple redirect in .htaccess to another domain and that was working flawless.

Also, as i said, i used my domain last years without problems and was making use of .htaccess to rewrite my urls.

I don't know what else to do now to get this 2.x.x chat to work.

[demian]

I am sorry, but i am going to stop trying to get this to work.

I really don't understand why phpfreechat 1.x.x was working perfect and 2.x.x is impossible to install.

Thanks for your effort.