template is gone [white]

verbatim · Post by **verbatim** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:14 pm

when i install there is no template at all. the link to 'Open login screen' is normally http://www.mysite.com/index.php?/admin but now when i nstall a blog it is http://www.mysite.com/admin

only when i manually type the admin address and click on the configuration link twcie does the template properly appear and the open login screen link work properly.

Why is this...

Just curious

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:59 pm

Without looking at the site, it sounds like URL rewriting is turned on...

Especially if
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?/admin
has become
http://www.mysite.com/admin

verbatim · Post by **verbatim** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:07 am

but thanks for the reply.

mgroeninger · Post by **mgroeninger** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:23 am

Mind giving us a little more info? Or perhaps an installation to look at?

IIS can do something similar to this (because $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is not set), but I believe there was a patch to 0.8.1 which corrects this.

verbatim · Post by **verbatim** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:26 pm

sorry for not replying sooner.

you were right, it was the url rewrite section....

Many thanks

toontastic · Post by **toontastic** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:27 am

Sorry for posting a question in a question but I thought it was related. I had this same problem when I installed for the first time yesterday (I have since unistalled and I'm in the process of installing again) are you saying that the URL rewrite doesn't work as yet or does something need to be done to make it work and make the screen not appear white ?

Thanks in advance.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:54 am

Toontastic, the URL rewrite only works if you have configured your Apache properly (AllowOverride All for the serendipity directory) or have installed mod_rewrite.

Regards,
garvin

toontastic · Post by **toontastic** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:05 pm

I don't have control over the server, but I assume it does work (the apache rewrite) as I use the SMF message board and that uses the same technique to rewrite the URLs and I've had no problems with that. Maybe the htaccess file was wrong on mine ?

toontastic · Post by **toontastic** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:50 pm

Well the problem still seems to be happening so I'm assuming the apache info is wrong or I need that mod. I might as well try the mod first so does anyone have any information about where I can get it ? Thanks for all the help.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:56 pm

Mod_rewrite is a apache tool that needs to be installed by the server admin.

What is the URL to your SMF message board and your blog? I'd like to see the rewriting that's used.

Also please tell me the contents of your .htaccess file in your blog directory.

Regards,
Garvin

toontastic · Post by **toontastic** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 4:28 pm

The message board is at http://www.newcastle-online.com/newnufcforum1/index.php (the home of the script is at www.simplemachines.org) as you can see it seems to work ok on there. Please excuse the menu along the top it's still being tested and we're struggling to get the CSS right for the menu.

The blog is at www.newcastle-online.com/nufc_news I've got it set to no for the url rewrites so it looks like it works at the minute but the URLs aren't search engine friendly.

The .htaccess file is whatever the blog has changed it to itself as I've just set it as 777 and let the blog change it.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:23 pm

On your forums I cannot see rewritten URLS, can you give me an example? http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcshop/ and most other menu items do not work and give a 404 error.

Please tell me the contents of your .htaccess, not the permissions

Regards,
Garvin

toontastic · Post by **toontastic** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:55 pm

Oops forgot it was in maintance mode so you wouldn't have been able to see anything other than the links along the top

Yeah the top links don't work yet.

An example of a link :

http://www.newcastle-online.com/newnufc ... ,14.0.html

I know I only gave the permissions

What I was saying is whatever the program creates is what is in .htacess. I'll do it again though and then send you whats in the .htaccess file.

Right done that and I checked the file and it said:

# BEGIN s9y
ErrorDocument 404 /nufc_news/index.php
DirectoryIndex /nufc_news/index.php
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
php_value register_globals off

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /nufc_news/
RewriteRule ^archives([/A-Za-z0-9]+)\.html index.php?url=/archives/$1.html [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)[_\-][0-9a-z_\-]*\.html index.php?url=$1-article.html [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^feeds/(.*) index.php?url=/feeds/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^unsubscribe/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=/unsubscribe/$1/$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^approve/(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=approve/$1/$2/$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^delete/(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=delete/$1/$2/$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(admin|entries)(/.+)? index.php?url=admin/ [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^archive$ index.php?url=/archive [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^categories/([0-9]+) index.php?url=/categories/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(index|atom|rss|b2rss|b2rdf).(rss|rdf|rss2|xml)$ rss.php?file=$1&ext=$2
RewriteRule ^plugin/(.*) index.php?url=plugin/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^search/(.*) index.php?url=/search/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(serendipity\.css|serendipity_admin\.css) index.php?url=/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^authors/([0-9]+) index.php?url=/authors/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index\.(html?|php.+) index.php?url=index.html [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^htmlarea/(.*) htmlarea/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule (.*\.html?) index.php?url=/$1 [L,QSA]

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

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

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

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

# END s9y

Thanks again

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:01 pm

Okay, thank you for that information.

The links that your forum creates are in fact NOT Apache Errorhandling URLs. They use a "PATH_INFO" feature, which is different from our method (it has its advantages and disadvantages).

That means, your server does not support Apache Errorhandling, and your server does not support mod_rewrite.

You need to go to your s9y configuration and set URL Rewriting to "None" then. Or you need to contact your sysadmin and tell him to install mod_rewrite or make your s9y directory "AllowOverride All".

After changing this, your htaccess should only look like this:

Code: Select all

# BEGIN s9y
DirectoryIndex /nufc_news/index.php
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
php_value register_globals off

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

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

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

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

# END s9y

Good luck and have fun,
Garvin

toontastic · Post by **toontastic** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:19 pm

Ahh right, thanks for all the help, I'll see if I can get the server guys to sort this out for me.

template is gone [white]

template is gone [white]

it says url rewriting is off