ask widget install fails

Question

I am a new user,  great software! I tried the ask widget using the 1.4 nightly build. From Admin seems to work OK. When I go to the user end it appears OK, but when I  enter some question and use the enter key I get a fault stating:

"The requested URL /ask was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

It seems the ask directory is not created at the admin end. the parent folder has permissions 707. It seems the 'ask' folder has not been created

Answer 1

There does not need to be a folder called /ask for this to work. Q2A effectively mimics the presence of such folders using a .htaccess file.

So to get that working you will need to go to the admin section of your site and choose the first option for 'URL structure for pages on your site'. 

If this doesn't work, it might be a problem with the current nightly build.