Odd...I just did a totally fresh install of serendipity in a new directory (cavepimp.com/test2/) and it didn't work either.

It appears the permissions are much more strict on my new host, and by tweaking some things on the /test2/ install I was able to get it going.

I think I'm just going to ...

Yes, it is in the /test/ directory. Currently the .htaccess looks like this:

# BEGIN s9y
DirectoryIndex /index.php

<Files *.tpl.php>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.tpl>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.sql>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.inc.php>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.db>
deny ...

The two sites are http://www.cavepimp.com/test/ and http://www.horriblybrilliant.com . The 403 forbidden error has happened with every edit I've tried to make to the .htaccess file (deleting it, removing those 2 lines, trying other stuff).

I'll ask them about the php.ini file and where to find it.

I decided to change web hosts for a number of reasons, and the guys at the new web host helped me copy everything over with permissions intact.

The problem is that on the new host, PHP is operating differently (I don't know a whole lot about this yet, so bear with me). When I try and load the site ...

Just checking back with a couple questions. Things are going well for the most part, and I'm getting close to telling people about the site.

One thing that I'm having trouble with is the static pages. It is putting a box with links to every other static page I created towards the top of each static ...

After spending some time playing around with Drupal I think that s9y actually fits my needs better and will take far less tweaking and administration for what I'm planning on doing.

I think the site organization can be accomplished via categories simply enough, and now that I know that things can ...

Thanks Garvin. I will look into Drupal and play around with it a little bit and see if I can determine what direction to head.

The last thing I want to do is make the wrong decision now and face a major overhaul down the road.

I should start out by saying I'm fairly new to Serendipity as well as PHP and MySQL. I have some pretty specific ideas of what I'd like to do and am not quite sure if this software will let me do it. I'm willing to put in the work to learn and mess around with things, but paying someone to help isn ...