I am trying to create a Dokuwiki farm on a remote server.

Dokuwiki is installed at server_name in /var/www/dokuwiki and is accessible and working at https://server_name/dokuwiki.

I manually created /var/www/farm, chmod 755.
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/farm
I installed and ran the farmer plugin.
I named the new animal 'projects'.
The directories /var/www/farm/projects/[conf|data] exist.

I try to access the new animal at https://server_name/dokuwiki/!projects but am greeted with an "invalid request" page.

The apache log only shows "GET /dokuwiki/!projects HTTP/1.1" 404 573.

CentOS 7 with PHP 7.1 from the SCL repo if that makes a difference. I looked at the Dokuwiki wiki but that did not help.

Any ideas?

Thanks again.

Why the ! in the url?
And if farm is at the same level as dokuwiki, then the url should be https://server_name/farm/projects ...dokuwiki is not part of the path to farm -- hence the 404 (not found) error.

Because that's what the DokuWiki explains. That "!" works on my home system but for some reason fails on a remote server I am configuring.

I really need an ELI5 tutorial for creating farms. There is some crucial piece of information missing on the DokuWiki wiki that I am not seeing. I have one working instance of a farm but what I did to achieve success compared to the remote server is not obvious to me.

Sorry, I misled you with that unrelated question.
Again, if the farm is at /var/www/farm, then the url would be https://server_name/farm/!projects ...I don't see how dokuwiki is part of the path to farm

Thanks. I understand the gist but that does not succeed.

The following does succeed on my home server but fails on the remote server:

http://server_name/dokuwiki/!projects/

OK. I’m stumped.
All have left to suggest is a careful comparison of the two installations to see what’s different. (And I presume you’ve already done that)

Yes.