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Site not showing full HTML

Had to delete old site and renew. Now S9Y is showing only text without the full HTML colors and stuff. I think the template has problem.

GH helped me before, but cant remember how to fix it.

I searched for the same problem with no luck. I think my wording is incorrect on search. no good matches.

Thanks for your time...<>

Hi!

It would have helped if you gave us your URL

How about this: http://www.s9y.org/11.html#A24

HTH,
Garvin

Help, my blog looks ugly, no stylesheets seem to be applied, and I get HTTP 404 errors or even 500 internal server errors all the way when browsing the page!

Serendipity offers several forms of URL Rewriting, to make your URLs look pretty. So instead of having the URL "http://localhost/index.php?article=1" you can have something nice like "http://localhost/archives/1-myentry.html".

To achieve this, Serendipity either uses mod_rewrite or the Apache Errorhandling functionality. Both may not be available on all hosts, and require a certain setup ("Allowoverride All") to apply rewriting within your .htaccess file. Serendipity tries to autodetect your best setting in the installer, but under certain circumstances, this might fail. Or you might even change the suggested setting during installation without knowing the problems.

The problems of enabling URL Rewriting without meeting the requirements are the problems you're now having: Stylesheet URLs cannot be find, article links cannot be found and so on, or even your .htaccess might contain "dangerous" settings.

You can easily fix this by entering your admin panel with the "http://localhost/serendipity_admin.php" URL. Then enter the configuration area, and set "URL Rewriting" to "None" and save your config. Make sure your .htaccess file is writable!

Another problem that calls this symtopms is that your .htaccess file might not be parsed/readable by the webserver. Check your permissions or contact your provider to check the Apache errorlogs for detailed information.

What can also affect the symptom of "no stylesheets are used" is if you enabled the 'embed' directive in Serendipity Configuration. As mentioned in the Configuration, if you enabled this setting, you must take care for the HTML head and body sections for yourself, Serendipity only outputs the straight content and nothing different. So either disable the embed mode, or use it as intended.

I LOVE S9Y

My host switched over to new OPS and I had to wait for Migration, but it didnt migrate over ok.

So I had to delete all stuff on server and start over. It was a headache.

Now I reinstalled all platforms and had a little trouble, but thanks again GH.

I remember when I first started learning websites, man it was a bi$ch.
I was in PHP twilight zone.

Theses days its better for me cause I learned the hard way, did it myself and read alot of stuff and trial and error. ALOT of reinstalls and deletions.

Thats Life U only get better by learning from your mistakes

Hi!

Oh, I'm very sorry that migration didn't properly work. I might have helped on the problems (because migration should work fine actually), but since you reinstalled already, this is too late now I guess.

Have fun,
Garvin

Using PowWeb? I can't wait for my "automatic migration". They've already found loads of errors. I hope it goes smoother than yours.