Installation error with external databases

[joooseb]

Describe the bug
There is not a way to configure external databases from installer, so Laravel throw an error trying to get a field "default theme from setting" in SQL database.
The unique way to avoid the error is configuring the external database parameters into laravel config file (because there's not a .env with configs). But new error appear (404 not found)... no way to run installer.

Version
7.0.0-beta.2

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to phpvms url
2. See error

Expected behavior
Installer views and logic.

Example:
http://www.dutchairwaysva.com/phpvms

[nabeelio]

I wonder if this is related to #491. But I'm not 100% what you mean, if you enter the hostname and port properly, it should just work. Is the remote port open?

Trying to go to: http://www.dutchairwaysva.com/phpvms/install

It looks like URL rewrite isn't configured

[joooseb]

No, isn't related to these issue, remote port is open and credentials in config/database.php has been entered properly. I will look the url rewrite, could it be the error there and laravel log file too.

[nabeelio]

Yeah, I was gonna ask for the Laravel log next. There's nothing that I'm aware of that should block a remote DB - that's how I test it infact, with the included docker-compose file - the database is running in a separate container, and it connects to it through its hostname

[web541]

Not sure if this helps, but it looks like it could be a URL rewrite issue as the installer can be viewed by adding the /public to the end which you shouldn't have to do now.

http://www.dutchairwaysva.com/phpvms/public/install

[joooseb]

Not sure if this helps, but it looks like it could be a URL rewrite issue as the installer can be viewed by adding the /public to the end which you shouldn't have to do now.

http://www.dutchairwaysva.com/phpvms/public/install

it works, but I changed the url setting in index.php to public/ and no lucky and in boostratp/app.php changed to phpvms/public and no lucky too with http://www.dutchairwaysva.com/phpvms/install but now the styles load correctly

[nabeelio]

Who's your host?

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[nabeelio]

Can you try this, if you're on Apache: #411 (comment)

[nabeelio]

I'm going to close this for now. Also, I'm going to put a note on the docs that running phpVMS in a subfolder isn't going to work very well, especially under cPanel. The best way is to create a subdomain, and have that point to the /public folder. I'll create instructions on the docs site for this.