Dear developers, 

I'm trying to install an ushahidi application on the godaddy  server (hcer.org/talawis, to help communities monitor pollution) and I keep on getting the same problem when I access other pages but the main page, http://hcer.info/talawis/index.php/login/ for example I get this error "No input file specified." I repeated the installation several times and the only step I could have done wrong is to make "clean URLs to work".   In fact if I click on log-in the links it displays (“http://hcer.info/talawis/index.php/login/” for example) are quite weird are probably not displayed well if the clean URLs are not activated. 

I wasn’t able to enable the mod_rewrite in Apache as is mentioned in the installation instruction (http://forums.ushahidi.com/forums/topic/server-configuration-for-apache-mod-rewrite/), but at godaddy they told me that mod_rewrite is working for my account.  I tried to follow the further instructions and added the following code to the main htaccess file:

AllowOverride All

AccessFileName .htaccess

(I tried to past this at the end, beginning and in the if loop in the .htaccess file)

But this gave me a HTTP 404 error, so I put the orginal .htaccess file back where it was (in the subfolder where I installed ushahidi thus) as I wasn’t sure there was an error anyway with “clean URLs”), but then I am still stuck with the “No input file specified” error when I tried to access another page than the main page.  I’ve been trying to locate the “vhost.conf, httpd.conf, or apache2.conf” files on my Godaddy server, but I don’t seem to have access so I gave up on this.

I searched the Ushahidi forum for errors related to this “No input file specified” (http://forums.ushahidi.com/forums/topic/no-input-field-specified/ for example) , but all problems that point to these fixes seem to have been resolved in the new versions, so now I don’t know where to search any further,

I tried to post this on the forum, but there seems to be a bug with the registration module (I tried to register with three different email addresses last week, and also emailed info@ushahidi and the twitter account to ask them about this bug but never received an answer), so now I am trying to contact you through this developers list.

The Godaddy server is using MySQL 5 and PHP 5.3.  I’m installing it in a subfolder, so I thought the error could be solved by changing the

“RewriteBase /” in “RewriteBase /talawis” or /talawis/ or talawis/

But this didn’t change anything.

For those who try to access the links, and see other errors that I mention, I’ve probably messed it up even further, but if I reinstall everything the errors I get are the abovementioned.  Usually ushahidi also messes up the title of the site (because it is written in Arabic), but I guess that should affect the installation.

Sorry for the long list of problems/ideas and thanks for your time,

Does Vandousselaere