Stuck in setup loop

Self-Hosted | v5
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I did a migrate:fresh on my db to start over and now i am stuck in a endless loop.

First time I filled out the form i got hit with my email was not valid, it is valid here to my devel server but anyways I got a 500 error with no error message, dug in the logs and it was a lack of memory.

second time i filled out the form, i just got a blank page and nothing else, so i hit refresh and reposed to form. Same thing again a blank page. I go back to the front page and i get redirected back to the setup pag and the redirect ‘fun’ starts all over again.

I have today to get this in a demo format before i have to abandon it. Anyone got any ideas?

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Hi,

A blank white page often means permissions issues, have you checked both the web server error logs and the app logs in storage/logs/

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i checked the serve logs, nothing in the laravel log but there was something in the php log. However, it looks to be a stack trace and it is all very hard to read, i have not figured out what the error is.

also, my dev site doesnt have permission problems, a user with permissions creates the files and folders it is the same as the nix server. its a homestead server.

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If you can post the error it may help.

By ‘permission problem’ it could be file ownership, this is from the docs:

Ensure the file permission have been set to the web server user. For example in Ubuntu this is www-data if you have configured a virtual host with a root directory of /var/www/html you would set the ownership like this.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html

https://invoiceninja.github.io/docs/self-host-installation/

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I checked the permissions no problem there.

here is the error message, it was too big to post on the forums.

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@david do you have any thoughts?

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I haven’t seen this one before. what version of PHP are you using?

it may be worth clearing the contents of bootstrap/cache

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Clearing the cache did nothing. Running php version 7.4

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I did some testing today and figured out a few weird things.

i traced the error down to the Artisan::call(‘migrate’, [’–force’ => true]); this was where it was getting suck, it had problems with the --force not having parameters as best as i can tell. IT still didnt work after removing the --force part. i put debug statements after the migrate call and they were never triggered. it went to a blank page.

the db seed didnt like the force option either for some reason.

next i did both the migrate and seed in a console, and commented them out of the code.

I was able to get to the set up form and fill it all out, but now i have a problem where it says invalid secret, and that is all it says.

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Do you know proc_open is supported by the server, it could explain the problem with the migration.

For the secret can you check if there is a secret value set in the .env file.

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As far as i can tell it is enabled, and from what i read i would be having issues running command line calls if there was a problem.

I only have API_SECRET and UPDATE_SECRET in the env file

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Does API_SECRET have a value?

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yes, its applesauce.

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Are you supplying the secret in the form?

You may want to try removing it to see if it helps

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I put the secret in the form, it made me change it to have a number and a cap letter. still no luck it still says invalid secret.

I also tried removing the env variable.

I am finding the weird that i am having problems installing a fresh copy now.

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I think you may be confusing the secret with the password

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the login form has email, password, one-time-password, and secret. I am rather sure I am putting the password in the correct box.
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but it still says invalid secret.

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You may need to run php artisan optimize after removing the secret

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clearing the secret and doing the php artisan optimize fixed the issue. I was able to log in and complete the installation.

Thanks for the help