XF 1.5 Can SSL Cause Server Errors During a Subfolder Install?

[Matthew Hutchinson]

My site uses XF 1.5. Last night, I added SSL. Right now, I'm trying to install a test version of XF2 in a subfolder of my site's root. My plan is to create a demo account my users can play around to acquaint themselves with XF2's new features before I upgrade. So far, three attempts have returned a 500 server error while the system was trying to process style info. This never happened prior to SSL. Could the SSL be conflicting with the install?

 

[Bryan]

Is your other xenforo install in the site root? If it is you may have a problem with double .htaccess files.

 

[Matthew Hutchinson]

Yup.

 

[Bryan]

Install it on a different subdomain and use a different cookie prefix, that's probably the better way to do it.

 

[CoZmicShReddeR]

If you used a copied website and upgraded yes there is an issue with the login! I had to use a seperate browser to login into the test site because of the cookies and domain link with same name and password!

 

[Matthew Hutchinson]

If you used a copied website and upgraded yes there is an issue with the login!

Didn't copy, just created a subfolder off the root and tried installing there. Doing that also explains why previous test versions and my live site have always prompted me to log back into either whenever I was done with the other. I presume installing in a subdomain instead of a subfolder will eliminate that issue as well.

 

[CoZmicShReddeR]

Didn't copy, just created a subfolder off the root and tried installing there. Doing that also explains why previous test versions and my live site have always prompted me to log back into either whenever I was done with the other. I presume installing in a subdomain instead of a subfolder will eliminate that issue as well.

Yes with a different domain or subdomain name yes!

 

[Bryan]

Didn't copy, just created a subfolder off the root and tried installing there. Doing that also explains why previous test versions and my live site have always prompted me to log back into either whenever I was done with the other. I presume installing in a subdomain instead of a subfolder will eliminate that issue as well.

You will need to have different cookie prefixes as the cookie will apply to the top level of the domain.

Put this in the config file of the 2nd install:

$config['cookie']['prefix'] = 'something_';