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Diary of a B+ Grade Polymath ([personal profile] tcpip) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev2009-07-17 10:25 am
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Installation advice

Pointed here by the dw-discuss mailing list

I am installing a development version of Dreamwidth with a view for making it a shared collaboration space for Australia's researchers.

I have followed the instructions - to the letter from http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Dreamwidth_Scratch_Installation on dreamwidth.domain.tld

However I am receiving the "If you've gotten this error, it means that something is currently (and, with luck, temporarily) broken. Please wait five minutes and try again." page instead of a happy pinkish DW page.

I'd like to get this working so we can throw some development energy into it :)
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[staff profile] mark 2009-07-17 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
First question is: are you using dw-nonfree, or not?

Second, what's in your Apache error log? This should be in /var/log/apache2/error.log and when you try to access a page you should see some error or another.