CouchCMS • View topic - Error 404 - Not found when installing site on live server

Problems, need help? Have a tip or advice? Post it here.

5 posts Page 1 of 1

Error 404 - Not found when installing site on live server

: larin555; Registered User

: Posts: 228; Joined: Wed Nov 11, 2015 11:11 pm

by larin555 » Thu Sep 08, 2016 4:10 am

Hi

I had my website on local servers, and installed it on a live server.
It is not the official URL, but I'm trying to install the site on :

http://173.247.253.77/~orizon7/

~orizon7 is the folder on my server where the site will be evantually.

Images acts like http://173.247.253.77/ is the root folder, and the only working page on the website is the index page.
I deleted the htacess file on the server to see if that was causing the issue...and still not working.

I have set the site URL in the config.php file to :

Code: Select all

define( 'K_SITE_URL', 'http://173.247.253.77/~orizon7/' );

I don't get why the home page works, and nothing else works.
Thanks for your help!

Re: Error 404 - Not found when installing site on live serve

: KK; Moderator

: Posts: 8731; Joined: Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:35 pm

by KK » Thu Sep 08, 2016 4:20 am

I think your site has prettyURLs enabled (in couch/config.php).
Please turn that off and see if that helps.

If it does, then before turning prettyURLs back again please make sure to set the sub-folder in the generated .htaccess file as follows

#If your website is installed in a subfolder, change the line below to reflect the path to the subfolder.
#e.g. for http://www.example.com/subdomain1/subdomain2/ make it RewriteBase /subdomain1/subdomain2
RewriteBase /~orizon7

Hope it helps.

Re: Error 404 - Not found when installing site on live serve

: larin555; Registered User

: Posts: 228; Joined: Wed Nov 11, 2015 11:11 pm

by larin555 » Thu Sep 08, 2016 5:29 pm

Thanks KK!

The website is working now, except that the "images" folder where all the image links that are not uploaded through the Couchcms admin are still broken.

When I copy the URL, it gives me
http://173.247.253.77/images/filename.png

The "~orizon7" is missing from the URL. Not sure how to fix this. Any ideas? Thanks again for your great support.

Re: Error 404 - Not found when installing site on live serve

: trendoman; Registered User

: Posts: 2900; Joined: Thu May 22, 2014 3:57 pm

by trendoman » Thu Sep 08, 2016 6:07 pm

Looks like this is a known issue for many other people. It is probably not couch-related, but server-related. This /~user/ folder is not a real folder, it is a link to some real folder on server. So, webserver (Apache) can't help with rewritebase. To solve this you may try to change rules in htaccess to explicitly include ~user part in urls. (See http://forums.modx.com/index.php?action ... =17639&i=1 message above the very last one.)

OR another couch-solution is to rewrite in your source code all src tags to images as <cms:show k_site_link />images/image.png. To avoid changing *all* links - use <base> tag inside <head> section.

Join COUCH:TALK channel here https://t.me/couchcms_chat
Ryazania — a framework to boost productivity with Add-ons viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13475
Support my efforts to help the community https://boosty.to/trendo/donate

Re: Error 404 - Not found when installing site on live serve

: trendoman; Registered User

: Posts: 2900; Joined: Thu May 22, 2014 3:57 pm

by trendoman » Fri Sep 09, 2016 2:50 pm

Another possible source of trouble is using relative to root paths in src:
wrong: src="/images/image.png" - here "/" makes a reference to domain, and not specific folder the website is placed into.
correct: src="images/image.png" - here all options of the above post will work, but 99% chance that it wouldn't require any effort at all.

Post a reply

Previous Next

5 posts Page 1 of 1

Return to Bug Reporting and Troubleshooting