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# Common Installations Errors

On this page, you find the common errors that occur during the local installations of miniCal.

### <mark style="color:blue;">**Q)**</mark><mark style="color:blue;">.</mark> Database installation is stuck?

<img src="/files/yvVHyB8juNv1pHXlxdUL" alt="" data-size="original">

<mark style="color:blue;">**Ans.**</mark> If you are using **Apache serve** then do these configurations.

1. &#x20;check if the rewrite module is enabled.
2. &#x20;set apache2.conf AllowOverride All to your Directory

```
<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>
```

If you are using **Nginx** then do these configurations. Check this link for more details <https://github.com/minical/minical/blob/master/docker/nginx.conf>.

```
        fastcgi_buffers 8 16k;       # default is 8 4k|8k
        fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;     # default is 4k|8k
        fastcgi_connect_timeout 60s; # default is 60s
        fastcgi_send_timeout 300s;   # default is 60s
        fastcgi_read_timeout 300s;   # default is 60s
```

```
location / {
        rewrite ^/api/(.*)$ /api/index.php?/$1 last;
        rewrite ^/public/(.*)$ /public/index.php?/$1 last;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?/$request_uri;
    }
```

### <mark style="color:blue;">**Q).**</mark>**&#x20;H**ow to publish in apache 'api' point in the virtual host if "minical/public" and "minical/api" in the same directory?

<mark style="color:blue;">**Ans.**</mark>  For virtual host configuration, you can create two separate virtual hosts for Apache, something like this:

```
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/minical/app/api/
    ServerName api.your-server.com
    CustomLog /usr/local/apache/logs/minical.io.access combined
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/minical/app/public/
    ServerName app.your-server.com
    CustomLog /usr/local/apache/logs/minical.io.access combined
</VirtualHost>
```

### <mark style="color:blue;">**Q).**</mark> How to add extensions on local setup?

<mark style="color:blue;">**Ans.**</mark> You can download a few Open source extensions here <https://docs.minical.io/build-an-extension/open-source-extensions> Put them in your local extensions directory located at "/minical/public/application/extensions/".

### <mark style="color:blue;">**Q).**</mark> SMTP settings and AWS keys are mandatory before DB installation?

<mark style="color:blue;">**Ans.**</mark> No, these are not mandatory.