Serendipity Forums

I know basic HTML code, but no experience with PHP, I have two questions.

1. In an effort to have the blog as my homepage I inserted the following code:
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1;url=http://www.alphastocks.com/cblog/index.php">
into my index page, which works, but surely there must be a more efficient way make the blog your home page. Not sure how this would work with Google search etc...

2. I want to install a sidebar where I can insert html code or whatever, I read on this forum that I need to insert an 'html nugget', what is that and how do I do it?

Thanks for any feedback.

OK, got the nugget sorted out.
Appreciate comments on how to best set the blog as the home page.

Hi!

Of course the easiest way to make s9y answer on your homepage is to just install Serendipity into the root of your document tree.

If you can't/won't do that, then your way of redirection is the only really feasible way. Another way would be to use a small index.php file:
this will be a little bit faster than your HTML Redirection.

Regards,
Garvin

I would like to install it in the root html dir but using APLUS.net there doesn't seem to be a way to choose where I install it. By the way the redirect code you posted doesn't work for me. Any ideas how I can put the blog files in the html folder? Tried copy paste, but it doesn't allow me to paste into the html folder from the cblog folder.

Got your php file working (didn't save it as php, doh).
I would prefer having the whole thing installed in my root html folder though

Hi!

Hm, if your provider installed s9y for you, then I don't see much of a choice here. If you have full FTP access and access to a database, you can install serendipity yourself into the root directory of your site, of course!

Regards,
Garvin