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Hi,

since september I am using s9y and I like it very much.

Now, since a few days my installation is not working anymore. Although my template seems to be used, my stylesheet seems to be ignored and I cannot access any other page than the start page.

I restored the web site as well as the database from the backups from a state of which I know that it is working.

I installed a new s9y in a different directory ... this one was working.

Here you can have a look at my site:
http://daniel.renschler.net/blog/

The only thing which has changed on my server: I activated mod_speling for a different site. Deactivating it did not bring my blog to life again

Has anybody experienced this problem in the past? What can I do?

Regards,

Markus

It seems you maybe did not restore the .htaccess file properly, which handles the Apache URL rewriting -- see http://www.s9y.org/11.html#A22

Regards,
Garvin

Hi Garvin,

I have disabled URL rewriting. Now, it works again but I still wonder why it suddenly stopped working a few days ago. Now, it is up to me to find out if there's something which has changed in my global apache configuration (though I cannot imagine).

Thanks again,

Markus

You must've either deleted your .htaccess file, or changed your s9y paths, or you changed your apache setup so that AllowOverride was not possible anymore...but it can't stop working on its own. *gg*

Maybe you've once made a change in your apache server, but did not restart apache - and when you restarted it many days later, you already forgot about that change?

Regards,
Garvin

Hi Garvin,

I investigated a bit more and found out that mod_rewrite only has a problem if the target is a PHP script. Then I found the following bug in the PHP bug database:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=35059

Then I checked my PHP version and discovered that it has been build 2005-11-17. Obviously SuSE did a backport of a newer PHP version and imported this problem.

Now, I have to check out how I can update my PHP interpreter without breaking with my Distro's package management.

Have I already mentioned that I love SuSE ?

Thanks for your Help,

Markus

Argh, okay. That problem sounds likely, I guess. I'm really sorry - but also thankful that you took the time to investigate

Best regards,
Garvin

Just in case somebody with the same problem discovers this thread:

I finally solved the problem by installing an older version of mod_php

Markus