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In particular, the "Ushahidi Platform v3.x" section contains information that is often misleading. Many details about this version of Platform have changed since.
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You should also rename template.htaccess to in httpdocs to .htaccess (for Apache) to enable rewriting of all non-existent files to index.php. If you do not want to, or are unable to, enable rewriting, then customize the initialization settings by also copying the init.php config file into environments/development/ and editing it, setting index_file to "index.php"
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