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That's best way I can put it

I just opened the site to the internet. Up to this point I've been testing the site via VNC and running on browser on the machine that running the website
in the states ... without a problem

http://localhost (display's perfectly)

Now accessing it from a browser here in Rep. of Panama I'm pulling up a useless display?

Any suggestions what it could be

thank you

Hi!

Maybe you need to properly configure the HTTP url in your s9y configuration and/or enable the option "Autodetect HTTP-Hostname"?

Regards,
Garvin

properly configure the HTTP url in your s9y configuration

I found this in s9y docs... is this what you are referring to?
You can easily fix this by entering your admin panel with the "http://localhost/serendipity_admin.php" URL. Then enter the configuration area, and set "URL Rewriting" to "None" and save your config. Make sure your .htaccess file is writable!

The above has 3 default to select from: It was set to disabled. I tired setting it to Apache error. This then effected the layout on the VCN connection I use to admin the web site. No effect to external broweser...same problems... however now after returning the setting to disabled.. I can not access administration screen. The write to .httaccess completed without an problem. It had write access. But it would appear now that something got butchered.. ugh

or enable the option "Autodetect HTTP-Hostname"?

is/are these features of s9y?

This is a family blog.... otherwise I'd post the site so you could look at it. You have a way I could send you the url so you could see what I'm seeing?

there was a field that had /serendipity/ in it I changed it to the directory where I keep the s9y engine for my website..

I think that is why I now can not log into the Administration /http://local/serendipity_admin.php well I can login but when I select Configuration it puts me back to the Login Screen... ugh


I've given up on this exercise.. I'm deleting everything and starting over. Next time I'm not messing with any features.. bare bones first.. defaults all around..

Still doesn't make sense why http://localhost work faultlessly but external browsers got stripped of formatting

Hi!

When you configure "http://localhost/" in your s9y path configuration, s9y uses that! Thus, when you use an external browser, http://localhost/ will access your local host, not the remote host - and return no files!

This is why you can enalbe "Autodetect HTTP-Hostname" in the s9y configuration.

Regards,
Garvin

Here's what I did that solved the problem

I corrected errors in my httpd.conf that had to do with the way I had configured the virtual hosts.

1. I discovered you have to have a default virtual host
<virtualhost >
Documentroot /var/www/html
<virtual host />

2. I found a discrepancy between in a script in my /etc/hosts regarding my localhost.localdomain
The installer of Fedora 8 had entered a factious domain

Then I discovered that I had to reinstall Serendipity. It seemed that the installation of Serendipity had created files. These files read by the localhost running on the localmachine ran without a problem. Access to the website from an external machine via www and formats were stripped.

reinstalling s9y fixed this problem but only it seems after correcting the httpd.conf and /etc/hosts files.