So you are installing locally on your machine and you have already created a database

The correct error message is:

Verifying .htaccess support works by fetching

and then

(test file) not found as expected.

If you open the index.html file, you will read:

Test successful.

If this page can be loaded, it means that the .htaccess that is being staged in this test folder
did NOT crash apache. This is good. This means we can use that .htaccess file in production.

So the problem in your case is that the .htaccess file crashed your webserver because there is something in it that your webhost doesn't like. b2evolution uses this test to verify that your webhost is compatible with b2evolution.

Who is your webhost please?

Hello,

Thanks for the reactions. Hereby some additional information

• the webhost, thats me. The blog is running on my own server
• I prepaired the DB schema on the server using the mysql wotkbench
• and filled the blog folder with the content of the b2e zip
• the rest of the install I try to do from a remote webbrowser (my desktop computer)
• the index.html is there and does contain the indicated text
• when simply adding the link towards the index.html testfile, in the webbrowser of my desktop computer, the content is properly shown
• the sentence displayed from the installer ": http://www.xyz.nl:443/blog/install/test/... " is strange to me
• yep the site is https protected
• and that is 443 but
• more logical would be to see something like https://www.xyz.nl/blog/install/test/...

Sincerely,

Louis

what is in $baseurl= in your conf/_basic_config.php file?

Hi, to respond to your question

basic_config.php ?????

• I do not think I have that file
• not in my php prog dir
• not in the b2e dir
• and alos not in the data dir (which would be rediculess)

I do have an php.ini

• but that file does not contain an $baseurl statement
• I never heart of that but apart from that which base should be there since php is used for multiple applications

Sincerely,

Louis

Sorry, I mistyped the folder of the file before.

This file is located in the /conf/ folder under your b2evolution root.

More info: http://b2evolution.net/man/basic-config-php

Hello,

I found the file under a slightly different name "_basic_config.php"

values are as follows

$baseurl = 'http://www.xyz.nl:443/blog/';
// Use the following if you want to use the current domain:
/*
if( isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) )
{   // This only works if HOSt provided by webserver (i-e DOES NOT WORK IN PHP CLI MODE)
    $baseurl = ( (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && ( $_SERVER['HTTPS'] != 'off' ) ) ?'https://':'http://')
                            .$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/';
}
*/

Sincerely,

Louis

So if you want to use https, then you need to configure $baseurl = 'https://www.xyz.nl/blog/'; (with httpS)

Hello,

I did change the url. That did change the message from http://www.xyz.nl:443/blog/install/test/... ERROR! to https://www.xyz.nl/blog/install/test/... ERROR!

But did not solve the problem.

Sincerely,

Louis

Hello,

I just tryed to install the new release. More or less as expected, still the same problem

Preparing to install /.htaccess in the base folder... (Force=no)
Verifying .htaccess support works by fetching: https://www.xyz.nl/blog/install/test/... ERROR!
https://www.xyz.nl/blog/install/test/index.html was not found as expected

However after continueing the install, my very first impression is that b2e works never the less .....

Sincerely,
\
Louis