[SOLVED] How to rename a directory where OJS3 was installed?

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OJS 3.1.1-4, upgraded from 2.4.8. If I open my user Dashboard, I get “Loading” at the top of the page. If I choose Identity, Contact, Roles, etc I get:
{“status”:true,“content”:"\n<a href="#" class=“requestHelpPanel pkp_help_link pkp_help_tab” data-topic=“user-profile.md”>\n\t<span class=“fa fa-info-circle pkpIcon–inline” aria-hidden=“true”></span>\n\t\t\tHelp\n\t</a>\n\n<script type=“text/javascript”>\n\t$(function() {\n\t\t// Attach the form handler.
…

Any ideas what’s wrong? I did a test upgrade a few weeks back, and then it worked.

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If I rename OJS directory from /var/www/html/ojs to /var/www/html/ojs3 (i.e. the directory where the first upgrade was done), then it works. I deleted cache directories. Searched for file contents “/var/www/html/ojs” - nothing found.

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Seems to work now when renamed directory again. I don’t know what was wrong before.
Edit: no, still hangs, but works if I make /var/www/html/ojs3 (old original directory) symlink to /var/www/html/ojs (the new renamed directory) and open the old URL https://…/ojs3. The new URL https://…/ojs still hangs.

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Hi @Nerijus_Baliunas

When directory name is changed, the apache config for this site also should be changed accordingly. What VirtualHost’s DocumentRoot directive for you site states right now? VirtualHost Examples - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4
Does it point to the right directory?

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DocumentRoot was OK:
DocumentRoot “/var/www/html”
But thank you for the hint, I had the following section just below DocumentRoot:
<Directory /var/www/html/ojs/lib>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from None

Commenting it out helped. It was done for OJS2 for security reasons.

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What was the security concern that led to this restriction on the “lib” directory?

There are files in the “lib/pkp/” and other directories which will need to be web-accessible (esp. javascript) in both 2.x and 3.x.

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Nothing serious, just to be safe. It was recommended to me by a member of university security team. This setup worked quite OK with OJS2, but now I see that not everything was OK, and commenting out helped with OJS2 too.