I feel your pain. Sadly this is just what you always need to do, if you don't have first-hand recommendations. I also hate that task. :-)



Thanks for your help... just in case it helps anyone else, I thought I would let you know that after extensive investigation I have settled on ModX CMS for ...

Serendipity offers the Static Page plugin which can maintain static pages. Did you try it out?


Not yet.. I haven't actually installed s9y yet...

I am finding that I am spending so much time downloading and installing one CMS after another, then spending a few hours learning how to do things ...

If I want hierarchically structured static content that is not time-dependent in the same fashion as a frequently updated blog (e.g a book or user manual with chapters, sections, subsections, pages) then is it easy to do that on s9y, or is blogging the major/sole focus? The key thing that I need ...

Just starting out with s9y..

Went to the "user documentation" pages and discovered that some of them (for example Add/Manage Media) appear to be empty.

So I have a quick question...

- I have quite a few PDF files that I would like to link to from s9y; can they be managed BY s9y (as a type of ...

Try going to yourdomain/serendipity_admin.php and logging in. Then you should be able to check the Configuration screen and change the URL rewriting to "none". Let us know what it was beforehand, so we can check the installation logic.

Unfortunately I have already been to that screen poking ...

Hi!
Usually, s9y tries to detect if a .htaccess file can be put online and then chooses the right method for "URL Rewriting". Maybe you changed it from "None" to "Apache Errorhandling" manually?

I tried to do a "Simple Install"...

All I did was

- download and untar, unzip the package
- move it ...

Installed serendipity on a multi-user system where I do not have root privileges, and unsurprisingly got an "internal server error" immediately after it said "successfully installed".

Checked the web logs and got the message

.../serendipity/.htaccess: DirectoryIndex not allowed here, referer ...