First check your file permissions.
Your website and all contents must generally be world-readable.
-Ensure that mod-rewite is installed and working, and that your `.htaccess` file
+Ensure that mod-rewrite is installed and working, and that your `.htaccess` file
is being used. To verify the latter, create a file `test.out` containing the
word "test" in the top directory of Friendica, make it world readable and point
your web browser to