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Hi,

I installed serendipity via debian packages, and it went smooth, also creating the database for serendipity successed. I'v tried to find info or introductions to continue from there but so far im out of luck (or i dont know what iv run into, im very new with this).

I understand im suppose to link apache & serendipity now somehow? also i have a address for testing serendipity, http://serendipity.myhost.com or http://myhost.com/serendipity , but i'v yet to find a way to configure this right.

summary: i'v installed & database created, but yet to receive the testpage

Any help is appreaciated, very little on debian afai been able to find

Thanks advance

Hi!

Sadly I'm not that much experienced with the debian package. I belive Kink, the packaging author, might have tips on this, I believe his contact data should be in the package details.

It adds s9y somewher ein the defualt /usr/share/htdocs or something like that, from where you would need to put it into your usual VHost...

HTH,
Garvin

In ubuntu, serendipity is placed in a specific folder (/usr/share/serendipity/www/) and the only thing you should have to do is to point apache or lighttpd to that. That means, you have to configure the datapath for lighttpd, and for apache probably it's enough to copy /etc/serendipity/apache.conf to /etc/apache2/conf.d/serendipity. Hope the packages don't differ too much.

hey,

thanks a lot for the answers, gona test this as soon as i get a chance

Solved!

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

Sadly I'm not that much experienced with the debian package. I belive Kink, the packaging author, might have tips on this, I believe his contact data should be in the package details.

It adds s9y somewher ein the defualt /usr/share/htdocs or something like that, from where you would need to put it into your usual VHost...

HTH,
Garvin

I contacted Kink & got the solution for this, thanks a lot for tip.

If some other firsttimer(like me) has problem with this, the solution was 1line:
ln -s /etc/serendipity/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/serendipity.conf
and reload Apache

1. http://packages.debian.org/search?suite ... erendipityPackage search Debian
2. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/all/se ... y/filelistFilelist Serendipity 1.3.1 Lenny
3. /usr/share/doc/serendipity/README.Debian:Getting started
   ---------------
   You need to configure your webserver for use with Serendipity. A default
   configuration for Apache is included in /etc/serendipity/apache.conf; you
   can drop or symlink it into the /etc/apache*/conf.d directory and reload
   the webserver.
   
   You can then access your Serendipity install at
   http://localhost/serendipity ; to log into the admin section, use
   the username 'admin' and password 'admin' (and of course change
   that right away).
   
   
   Security
   --------
   
   Register Globals: Debian does not provide security support for installations
   with the PHP register_globals setting turned On. It's also not required for
   Serendipity to operate. Make sure it's off. It's trivial to turn it on just for
   specific legacy sites that may need it.
   
   PostgreSQL on non-standard port
   -------------------------------
   
   Currently, Serendipity does not support using PostgreSQL running on a non-standard
   port, other than by hacking the source.

If someone needs next time some help.
Greetings

I'm gonna jump in on this thread as well since I'm also trying to get this going with Debian.

Following the advise in this thread I can get Serendipity up and running. However, I cannot log into the Admin page using the default username and password of "John Doe" and "john".

I'm a total newb as far as PHP, Apache, and MySQL are concerned. This machine is also running literally in server mode with no X11 installed, so I'm limited to the command line.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Try 'admin' and 'admin'
sincerely