Re: Problems after/during instalation - blank page / 403
Your problems are "weird" in the sense that normally the installation process goes smoothly, but I guess that's cold comfort ;-).
What server OS and software are you using? On my laptop, I have a local install - a WAMP setup. I've used FusionServer, XAMPP, and Wampserver2 at various times. It's always been the default server installation; I've never had to tweak settings, etc. Most of the problems I've seen reported about local installs are from people using IIS on Windows, or are running Linux locally and things are configured in some incompatible way.
My remote installations are presumably "normal" hosted sites (hostrocket.com) running Linux, and again no problems. I don't think "server misconfiguration" happens very often but there are various ways server admins want to set things up, and sometimes adjustments might be needed one way or another. Logically, if a 403 error occurs during the installation, that means some server setup incompatibility. Tikiwiki runs at many domain hosts (see Tiki Friendly Hosts ), and reports of "it just won't run" are rare.
About the package size, I don't recall seeing documentation that the unzipped 3.1 package is 25MB. Will you please let me know where that is, so it can be corrected? Tiki 3.x has gotten pretty huge due to recently incorporating the Zend framework, but refactoring, etc., should bring the size back down somewhat in future releases. In my case, I just let the ftp transfers go on in the background while doing other things.
Using Tikiwiki's .htaccess file or not should not make or break the site; it enables the shorter urls, but Tikiwiki will run without it.
Can you give more information about your local and remote server OSs and software? I'm not a server expert by any means but some details would be helpful in pinpointing the cause of the problems.
-- Gary
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