Clean URLs don't work after install in Backdrop

Question

I'm intalling civicrm on backdrop cms. Setup returns that installation was succesful. I see the link in the admin bar, but when clicked, the link gives me 404 error.

If I add "?q=", links works, the page display, but any other link doesn't work.

Clean urls works fine on the site.

I'm performing a migration from Drupal 7, were civicrm was updated and functioning.

System: Backdrop 1.18.0 MySQL Database MySQL, MariaDB, or equivalent version 5.5.5-10.3.27-MariaDB-0+deb10u1 php Version: 7.3.19-1~deb10u1 (PHP information) Servidor web Apache/2.4.38 (Debian) Civicrm 5.33.1

I would appreciate any advice.

Andrés

Answer 1

If Clean URLs are working in Backdrop, but not in Civi under Backdrop, then the problem is almost certainly in civicrm.settings.php. My Backdrop/Civi sites (and also Drupal 7/Civi sites) have this snippet of code in civicrm.settings.php:

if (!defined('CIVICRM_CLEANURL')) {
  if ( function_exists('variable_get') && variable_get('clean_url', '0') != '0') {
    define('CIVICRM_CLEANURL', 1 );
  }
  else {
    define('CIVICRM_CLEANURL', 0);
  }
}

I suspect you're either missing this code, or perhaps there's something wrong with your "clean_url" variable in Backdrop.

Try replacing that with just this and let us know if it solves the problem?

define('CIVICRM_CLEANURL', 1 );

Answer 2

searching in the apache2 error.log I saw:

[Tue Jan 26 14:15:46.726049 2021] [negotiation:error] [pid 16679] [client 127.0.0.1:44192] AH00687: Negotiation: discovered file(s) matching request: /home/(...)backdrop/civicrm (None could be negotiated)., referer: http://(...)backdrop/?q=civicrm&reset=1

Then I searched the web and found this post that explains that in the line

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

of my virtual host configuration (file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/backdrop.conf) I should delete the word "MultiViews".

I restarted apache and civicrm links started working when I enabled Clean URLs.

Thanks,

Andrés