1.0-beta3 no login, archive(s), categories, etc

[aproximation]

Hello,
First thank you for writing and maintaining sweet opensource code!

I am trying to set up serendipity using the beta code (because my I visit my site to maintain it an order of magnitude more then I get visitors) but some of the links go nowhere.

For example I created an article and a category for that article but none of the article or category links work. In the directory structure I saw that none of the directories needed were created so I ran mkdir archives, chmod +775 archives (apache is the group for the directory) and entered a new entry but no file was created in the archives folder.

How do I get the authors, categories, and archives links to work with the beta code?

Thanks again,
-thewade

[aproximation]

Oh, I forgot to say that I had to manualy type serendipity_admin.php to log in for the first time because all the links (including the css links) were broken too. After I logged in and changed the default theme thoes links began to work. The other links mentioned above still do not work.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Actually, s9y does not store any files on the disk. All URLs are "virtual" and read content frmo the database.

What you describe sounds a lot like this FAQ: http://www.s9y.org/11.html#A13

So you might just enter your s9y configuration screen and set URL Rewriting to "None", because it seems your server doesn't support "pretty URLs".

HTH,
Garvin

[aproximation]

Thank you! That was totally it!
I just edited my httpd.conf file to inform apache that there are .htaccess files to be read for that directory and things worked again.
I just added:

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<Directory "/serendipity">
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
</Directory>

and things were bueno again!

Thanks!