I am also having the same issue when installing ossn on debian 8 cubes 2048.

thanks.

I've also tried using a domain name:
http://ossn.m6s.com/ossn/installation/
(this is registered at godaddy, and accessible only from here).
and got the same result.

i'd like to try and set it up the way it was meant to be :)

(I can share the entire process for installing it on debian 8 later)

Aviad

One step further, that's fine :)

The current mod-rewrite check depends on a fully working domain name resolving - which is the case for every worldwide reachable server, but often not with inhouse / virtual machines. You might want to setup up your own local nameserver or choose the faster way and proceed to OSSNs next step manually:
by adding ?page=settings to the end of your URL.

so finally i got to the ui.

i see there:
MOD_REWRITE REQUIRED

but i did run: a2enmod rewrite
and restarted apache2

what am i missing here?

when running phpinfo() i see that the module is enabled.

I was missing php-curl apparently.

now it just hangs forever loading the page,
and i see the following line in apache2 error log:

fileputcontents(/var/www/html/publichtml/ossn/.htaccess): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/publichtml/ossn/installation/libraries/ossn.install.php on line 232

thanks.

Consult your webserver's error log:
- incomplete installation?
- permission problems?
make sure the OSSN directory tree is owned by your webserver
do a chown -R www-data ossn (or whatever id your webserver is running under)