Setting up s9y on BlueDomino hosted server

[detnyre]

Hi,

I'm attempting to get s9y to work on a BlueDomino (www.BlueDomino.com) web host.

I have the 'Serendipity' folder copied onto the host, but when I go to the http://myhostname.bluedomino.com/serend ... _admin.php url I get a "500 Internal Server Error".

In reading the forums I realise that I probably need to set the file permissions.

My FTP client shows that the permissions are set to: "rw-r--r--".

So I have two questions:

1. What should the permissions be set to?
2. Has anyone else been able to get s9y working using BlueDomino as a host? If so, did you run into any other issues getting s9y working?

Please advise.

Derek

[garvinhicking]

What webserver and PHP version do the BlueDomino Hosts use? It is very uncommon that serendipity_admin.php creates errors!

Can you see if a .htaccess file exists on your server? Before s9y is installed, such a file should NOT exist and may be causing the trouble.


The permissions of the file do look right.

You might want to contact your support team to ask them what specifically is causing the error?

Regards,
Garvin

[detnyre]

Hi,

BlueDomino uses PHP 4.3.10 and Apache 1.3.33 on Redhat Linux 7.3 and 9.0 servers.

This morning I'm able to access the admin screen at: http://myaccount.bluedomino.com/serendi ... _admin.php

I think the problem was that I had to turn on support for CGI, and I assume the server needed to restart before this took effect...

Now I'm working on setting up the mySQL....

Derek

[detnyre]

I got the blog to work on the BlueDomino server.

I ended up deleting everything in the blog folder and then FTP'ing it again.

It then looked like it was running fine - except that I was unable to post any blog entries.

I checked the server log and I found PHP session errors being generated by the serendipity_config.inc.php page.

Did some investigation on BlueDomino and found that they require adding two lines to the top of any programs that use PHP sessions:

//Added these two lines:
session_save_path("/home/users/web/b10/blu.detnyre/cgi-bin/tmp");
session_start();

Now I'm going to check out the different skins and modules that are available for s9y.

[garvinhicking]

Thanks a lot for telling the solution here, I bet it will be very helpful for any other BlueDomino users!

Hope you'll enjoy Serendipity.

Regards,
Garvin