This is probably already well known, but the human friendly rewrite option breaks the style sheets. The sidebar plugin that likes to the admin page is also broken.

This seems to be partially fixed in cvs. The style sheets work for the blog, but not the admin pages, and the sidebar plugin is still ...

I wanted protect myself from a misconfigured server, that might accidentally send the source of serendipity_config_local.inc.php. I moved the file to /var/serendipity (my my web root uses /var/www). I did recursive search and replace to add ../../serindipity/ to the file path. I took similar steps ...