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[bobbybrown]

The setup guide helped me through setup without any issues, thank you so much!

[community-manager]

No problem, I am glad...

[GrabHappy]

thanks a lot for the guide. Although I managed quite well, it provided some need-to-know information about future setups.

[idanfridman]

hello,


i have cube cart installed and would like to switch to magento.

hired a programmer that found out some issues with the file htacess which i found out later that is a well know issue with magento new versions.

our mail to support was: We constantly having "Internal Server Error". We found that it works after we deleted several configurations blocks from .htacccess file such as mod_rewrite and mod_ssl settings. Magento can't run with out this settings. Please check server config. It doesn't allow us to set standard settings through .htaccess.

answer:

mod_rewrite is loaded in our apache server. So that should not be an issue using it in magento.

As for secure URL SSL, we do not currently support private SSL key on linux.

If you want to use that you will have to enable the vanity SSL on your linux domain. You can enable it from the support control panel http://support.myhosting.com > Linux Sub Site > Site Settings > Vanity SSL.

we reply:


Hi, our question wasn't "Is mod_rewrite" installed or not. We can check it easily with phpinfo command. Question was why on simple settings in .htaccess server response with error?

Here is our htaccess instruction that we have. We removed all other instruction to show you that server is not configured in right way. It worked on all servers we used before. So it most likely server problem.


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
############################################
## enable rewrites

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

############################################
## you can put here your magento root folder
## path relative to web root
#RewriteBase /magento/

############################################
## workaround for HTTP authorization
## in CGI environment
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

############################################
## always send 404 on missing files in these folders
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(media|skin|js)/

############################################
## never rewrite for existing files, directories and links
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l

############################################
## rewrite everything else to index.php
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
</IfModule>

got an answer:

I have submitted the code to our linux admins to determine the cause of the error.


i never try to use the installer as was afraid to damage the database of cube cart.


any advice?

[tahoemnts]

Thanks again for the guide. I look forward to learning from it.