So, after lots of problems and different cases I came to the conclusion that I don’t really understand how the .htaccess and paths works in OJS. I couldn’t create a new journal because of some wrong settings in .htacces that I fixed (see https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/cannot-create-new-journal/75798/4). Now, the situation is that:
- I have a journal with a custom domain, all set and working;
- I have two journal within a general domain, reachable at www.journals.com/nameofjournal as the “normal” setting of ojs should work. Those journals gets redirected at www.journals.com/index.php/nameofjournal
- I have a brand new journal within the general domain, but it doesn’t get redirected to /index.php/, all the urls inside ojs to reach the journal try to get the page www.journals.con/brandnewjournal, and it gives 404. When I write the url by hand with /index.php/ the css are not loading and I get general errors in the admin backend.
This is my .htaccess (I think that the problem is here, but I don’t actually know for sure):
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
######### ADMIN NO CONTEXT / THIS IS TO FIX THE IMPOSSIBILITY TO CREATE A NEW JOURNAL
RewriteRule ^_/api/v1/(.*) index.php/_/api/v1/$1 [L,R=307]
## Journal has its own domain
RewriteRule ^api/v1(.*)$ index.php/aldrovandiana/api/v1$1 [L,R=307]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^(www\.)?aldrovandiana.it
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/aldrovandiana
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/aldrovandiana/$1 [QSA,L]
##Mainsite with journal overview and admin
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^(www\.)?journals.buponline.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^index/(.*)$ /index.php/index/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_php.c>
php_value upload_max_filesize 40M
php_value post_max_size 40M
</IfModule>
I don’t know if any of this is comprehensible, if not I will try to explain better. I have a really hard time to figure it out why there are so much “index” in the ojs urls and how they works.
Thanks.