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Hi there,

I noticed with all my serendipity blogs that when I browse pages via categories, page 2 + ends up being blank. It says "Sorry. No entries to print". The posts doesn't show up, whereas the pages viewed via archives are okay.

Please take a look at a couple of my blogs using the categories, so you know what I mean.

jotterbox.com/blogamatazz.com

How can I get this to work?

Hi!

This is because a Link like http://blogamatazz.com/categories/Family/P2.html can't properly resolve to the used category - if you could change your permalink setup to include %id% inside your categories URL, the problem would go away, then the link would look like http://blogamatazz.com/categories/1-Family/P2.html and then not require a database lookup.

In my installation, using a link like the above one does work, I think it has been a glitch in earlier s9y versions - if you upgrade to 1.4.1 you could check if the problem then goes away.

Regards,
Garvin

I tried doing this with one of my blogs hoping it would work, I even upgraded my serendipity just as you suggested and it still doesn't work.

Is there some kind of code I can change in the category script?

Any other possible solution for this? I really want the categories to work, so I don't have to rely on going through the archives when I'm looking for something.

Hi!

This is strange, this should work. Did you maybe modify any of the internal s9y files, or did some changes to the .htaccess file?

I can only offer to have a precise look at the installation, if you'd like that...in that case I would need temporary FTP access to debug the URL lookup on your page. Please contact me via PM, if you want to try this.

Regards,
Garvin

Jotterbox wrote:I tried doing this with one of my blogs hoping it would work, I even upgraded my serendipity just as you suggested and it still doesn't work.

Is there some kind of code I can change in the category script?

Any other possible solution for this? I really want the categories to work, so I don't have to rely on going through the archives when I'm looking for something.

Hi!

Now that I was able to check your page, I could find the issue.

You changed the permalinks of entries to not use a prefix. This is sadly not supported by serendipity. You must use a prefix, without a prefix errors like these will happen.

A bit of background: Without a prefix, serendipity will think that a article page instead of a category page is requested, because the regular expression matches also the one of an article: /categories/5-blah/P2.html matches "can contain any words and ends with .html" which is your rule of entries.

If you change the permalink for your entries to have a fixed prefix like /article /blog or /content or whatever, this mixup will no longer occur.

Best regards,
Garvin

Thank you! It's working now