Admin screen doesn't work

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stokedfish
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Admin screen doesn't work

Post by stokedfish »

Hi guys,

my very first attempt to install Serendipity.

I used the DEB for Ubuntu (on Dapper) and it seemed to work fine, everything was green during the installation process. Also, I could access the admin panel, but not anymore...when I log in, it always takes me to this page:

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What's wrong? Any help is welcome...thanks guys!
garvinhicking
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Re: Admin screen doesn't work

Post by garvinhicking »

Hi!

Could it be you changed the option for the "URL Rewriting" in the serendipity configuration?

You should be able to go to the admin panel by using the http://yourhost/yourpath/serendipity_admin.php URL.

HTH,
Garvin
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Post by stokedfish »

No, the only thing I changed was...I set "forbid creating entries" to yes.

Then I saved it and since then all I can access is that screen.

http://mydyndns.dyndns.org/serendipity_admin.php takes me to the above page... :(

Edit - my apache.conf:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName mydyndns.dyndns.org
    ServerAlias mydyndns.dyndns.org
    DocumentRoot /var/www/serendipity
    HostnameLookups On
    UseCanonicalName On
</VirtualHost>
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Post by garvinhicking »

Hi!

Oh. The thing you changed effectively locks you out of doing anything in the admin panel. It's only there to dumb down a user account for foreign users, that should only log in to be able to post comments to otherwise locked entries. The dangers of this setting lead us to remove that setting in the personal configuration in Serendipity 1.2 versions for the upcoming release :)

Best would be to reinstall serendipity, if you didn't already add content to it: Delete the serendipity_* tables, delete the file serendipity_config_local.inc.php and you can reinstall.

The other way would be to edit the serendipity_config DB table to reset the option "no_create" to "0" instead of "1" for your authorid.

Best regards,
Garvin
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Post by stokedfish »

garvinhicking, thanks so much!

It's fixed now and I host 2 blogs at home. It's fun but we'll prolly move to a professional hosting company soon, that whole DynDNS thing is a bit, ehh, cumbersome.

Especially with an upload of only 70kb/s...lol o.O

http://mmu.ath.cx/
http://fed.ath.cx/

However, s9y is most fun and I must say it's very easy to use...yay for spartacus! I'm happy and I guess I won't even give wordpress and the other alternatives a try, this offers all I need...

Thanks!
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