Symphony.

Hey,

I've been trying to use this cms for a couple of months but I havent had any luck installing it. When the installation is completed I receive a 404 error page on the admin area. I noticed that symphony doesnt create a .htaccess file so that could be the problem. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

It should have created one for you. I think you might need to change the file permissions for the folder where you installed Symphony.

Here is the content of my .htaccess file:

### Symphony 2.2.x ###
Options +FollowSymlinks -Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /

    ### SECURITY - Protect crucial files
    RewriteRule ^manifest/(.*)$ - [F]
    RewriteRule ^workspace/utilities/(.*).xsl$ - [F]
    RewriteRule ^workspace/pages/(.*).xsl$ - [F]
    RewriteRule ^(.*).sql$ - [F]
    RewriteRule (^|/). - [F]

    ### DO NOT APPLY RULES WHEN REQUESTING "favicon.ico"
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} favicon.ico [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [S=14]

    ### CHECK FOR TRAILING SLASH - Will ignore files
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [L,R=301]

    ### URL Correction
    RewriteRule ^(symphony/)?index.php(/.*/?) $1$2 [NC]

    ### ADMIN REWRITE
    RewriteRule ^symphony/?$ index.php?mode=administration&%{QUERY_STRING} [NC,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^symphony(/(.*/?))?$ index.php?symphony-page=$1&mode=administration&%{QUERY_STRING}   [NC,L]

    ### FRONTEND REWRITE - Will ignore files and folders
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*/?)$ index.php?symphony-page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}    [L]

</IfModule>
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I had the same issue.

Appears that rewrite no working ..., and I found the solution at the comment # 49 in this thread:

http://getsymphony.com/discuss/thread/24044/3/

My installation appeared to go ok. The log file says everything was installed, but I cannot bring up the admin page. On Mac OS X 10.4, I installed symphony in my Applications/MAMP/htdocs folder. There was no htaccess document created, so I created one using megaman's and put it in the symphony folder. I notice there is another symphony folder inside the symphony folder. Locating htacess in either one does not work.

To bring up the admin page, I am typing the URL http://localhost/symphony which doesn't work. Could someone advise on correct URL or what I am doing wrong.

Thanks,

Michael

Looks like you've got one too many folders. The .htaccess, index.php, manifest, symphony, workspace etc. should be at http://localhost level, not in a folder called symphony. Otherwise your .htaccess contents will be wrong.

Also be sure that you have hidden files shown in OSX. The .htaccess file begins with a full stop (.) so OSX treats this as a hidden file. So there may have been one, but it is not showing.

which doesn't work

Could you be more specific? Do you get an error message?