Problem with extended text / commenting after fresh install

iBear · Post by **iBear** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:48 am

I'm kinda new to the whole bLog stuff, so I wanted to try one with good reviews and ended up on the s9y site...

After doing an install (fresh one) and configuring a few things, I noticed I couldn't find any possibility to make comments... After a while of searching the forum and trying things I realised I was unable to access the extended texts altogether...

When clicking on the title of an entry, i get the "No entries to print" text, instead of what should be my extended text - as I was able to see neatly in my preview.

I've tried different configs, fresh simple install without anything changed, leaving the access on world writable (777); all read & exec and serv only write (755), the said all read with serv only write (644)... But it still changed nothing.

Now, I must say I have no idea what kind of server it is on exactly, because it is my uni server to which I don't have root access (I do have an account, which works flawlessly; most of the time - just not now).
The db is a normal SQLdb as far as I know...

I've only found one actual entry in the forum about this error, it was resolved by changing dir's in the config manually, because of a slash/backslash error; I checked that and it's not the case, so I'm quite lost now.

Could anyone please help of tell me where to find a solution for this? I'm going kind of insane here...

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:48 am

Maybe you can tell us the URL to your blog?

Go to s9y configuration and set "URL Rewriting" to "None", maybe that helps?

Regards,
Garvin

iBear · Post by **iBear** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:19 pm

URL rewriting was set to disabled by default (autodetected, according to what's written...)

The URL of the main blog is http://www.phys.uu.nl/~kukla/bLog/
This was the original install, it either displays the error mentioned or a page with the month statistiscs (??, not sure about this).

I have a second install, on http://www.phys.uu.nl/~kukla/serendipity/
This one is a basic simple install, everything works, alle entries are saved nicely into the db, but the nothing to display error still exists...
If you'd like to sniff around in the configs, I could give you the user/pass.

Thank you for looking

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:35 pm

It seems that either you misconfigured the serendipity HTTP path, or the permalink patterns

I can gladly have a look if you proide me with a user/pass!

Regards,
Garvin

iBear · Post by **iBear** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:38 pm

[pass removed by admin]

That's for the second blog, at http://www.phys.uu.nl/~kukla/serendipity

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:50 pm

Okay, I found that you changed the permalink to archives/%id%.html. Sadly, serendipity requires a "-" or "/" character after the entry id to properly match permalinks, it seems - and we didn't document this in the configuration.

The customizable permalinks are a new feature of Serendipity 0.9, and it seems that most people run without customizations to their permalinks. Thanks to your help we'll be able to improve documenting this behaviour in the future.

Now I've changed the %title% for your entry links again, and entries do display. However they are missing their surrounding layout. Can it be that you modified your templates *.tpl files?

Regards,
Garvin

iBear · Post by **iBear** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:00 pm

It works indeed

Many thanx!

I checked the other install, and added a dash after the %id% as well, and it works too

But then there's the layout... I haven't touched the templates at all, to be honest... Wouldn't really dare

(yet)
I'll try redownloading the package and putting it up again... Maybe there was an error with the unpacking (improbable, but you never know)

Anyway, thank you VERY MUCH

I guess I'll be testing the system for the upcoming months, so I might bother you again

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:06 pm

I did look something more into the error, and the reason is that /archives/XXX.html are used for our date range archiving. Thus a "-" or "/" is required to tell s9y that the following pattern is not a date range archive, but a permalink for an entry. I'll see how to put this best into the docs!

I haven't seen such a strange entry layout like you get on any installation, so it really might be related to garbaged files? If you don'T get it to work, you can contact me via PM and give me temporary FTP access, then I can look what exactly is happening!

Best regards,
Garvin

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:57 pm

w00t!
I did a new fresh install, with the same setup, and this time - there's a layout

So it finally works, great!

Now, one more question though...
What should i make the permissions *after* intall?
They're at 777 on install (root and template_c), but should i change them back to 755 / 644 / ???

After this, I'll leave you alone

sorry...
m3 s0 n00b

iBear · Post by **iBear** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:58 pm

that was me, thinking i was logged in... *sigh*

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:11 pm

You can change the root die to 755 after install. But templates_c needs to be writable for your webserver all the time!

Regards,
Garvin

iBear · Post by **iBear** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:25 pm

That *might* explain why the templates went wrong then, heheh

once again

Many great thanks, for the whole response, and the incredible response time

I refreshed the main install, and it works just fine

If I encounter more, I'll know whom to ask

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:31 pm

Great, another mystery solved

I'm glad I could offer you some help. I hope you'll enjoy Serendipity!

Best regards,
Garvin

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