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I have seven categories and a number of posts in each. However, I've just noticed that if I select any of them I get a message saying nothing is printed.

I'm using the current version of Serendipity. I haven't looked at any of the categories for some time so I don't know how long it's been like that.

Hi!

Which s9y event plugins are you using exactly? Did you change anything in the s9y permalink configuration? How does your .htaccess file look like?

Regards,
Garvin

Permalinks: categories/%id%-%name%

I don't think I've changed this recently

Event Plugins: Just those that came with Serendipity

I can't actually see any .htaccess. Perhaps this is the problem?
What should I do about it?

Hi!

If there's no .htaccess file, that's fine.

Could it be you upgraded your s9y version from 1.0 or so to 1.2? It might be that you are missing a DB update of your serendipity_categories DB table. In that case you might need to re-execute the update by editing your serendipity_config_local.inc.php file, setting the versionInstalled string to the version installed before ('1.0'?), go to your s9y admin panel and make sure that it lists *.sql files that are getting executed.

Regards,
Garvin

Sorry to be dense - I've now found that I DO have an .htaccess.

Here it is:
# BEGIN s9y
DirectoryIndex /serendipity/index.php
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
php_value register_globals off

<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 from all
</Files>

# END s9y
~

I've just noticed that my serendipity_config_local.inc.php has different permissions from the other files (rwx instead of rw----r)

Is this the problem? Unfortunately i don't seem able to change it with ftp.

Nope; those are permissive enough to allow s9y to work, and we don't check the permissions first.

Have you tried to re-execute the database update that Garvin posted above? It's pretty simple, and it matches your symptoms.

I can't do anything with serendipity_config_local.inc.php.

I can't fetch it with ftp so I can't edit it or do anything else.

I seem to be stuck.

Hi!

Check the FAQ on "fixperm.php", that might help you out to set permissions?

Regards,
Garvin

Thanks, Gavin - you've come up trumps as usual!
I did as you suggested, used fixperm.php and now my categories are working correctly.

Thanks again,

Anthony