Cannot post entry

stevieswonderland · Post by **stevieswonderland** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:16 am

I installed the software. Am able to install plugins and can modify pretty much anything I need.

However, I cannot for the life of me, post a blog entry. I post, and save, and the preview pane brings up the administration page, rather than the main page.

When I reload the front page, the entry isn't there.

I searched around, but couldn't find a post, so does anyone have any ideas?

http://www.shepherdsflock.net/stevie

Thanks.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 5:08 am

Another note: In the preview window, the admin page comes up, rather than the blog page. That might help.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:49 pm

This problem is usually related to your PHP Webservernot supporting Cookie Sessions.

If you login to serendipity, do not check the "remember me" button and then try to browse the adminpanel.Does s9y then ask you foryour login again everytime?

If yes, pleasecontact your sysadmin to enable PHP Cookie sessions.

Bestregards,
Garvin

stevieswonderland · Post by **stevieswonderland** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:08 am

Okay. I was able to go into MySQL and change the 'isdraft' statement from true to false and it posted. So, I don't think it's a cookies problem.

Any other suggestions?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:49 pm

When you post entry, look at the top right corner. There's a dropdown saying "Draft". Does the dropdown also contain the value "Publish"?

If not, you don't have publish privileges. Check your personal configuration and see if "Allowed to publish entries" is checked.

Sadly your initial error report did not contain that the entry was saved...and it sounded pretty much like a Cookie session problem.

Best regards,
Garvin

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:34 am

Yes, I get the publish button. Sorry for not including all the details needed.

Here's what I can do. If I save it as a draft, I can go into MySQL and change the 'isdraft' to false and it'll post on my front page. If I save it as Publish, it disappears and saves nowhere.

Once I make the change in MySQL and it's posted, I cannot make any changes to it, even though it says it's being changed. When I publish, I get this message.

"Serendipity is now saving your entry, creating trackbacks and performing possible XML-RPC calls. This may take a while.." (I'm not sure what this means.)

Below it in the preview screen, that Administration page shows up, rather than the Weblog page.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:58 pm

Hm. Did you check the Cookie Session problem I mentioned? Posting a draft may not require a session cookie+iframe, but publishing does...

Regards,
Garvin