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Hi Guyz'n'Gals! Bit of a newbie question here. I have GL installed in my E-Novative PHP htdocs folder. PHP and MySQL tests are successful and I get to the Geeklog success.php page with no errors. The success.php screen seems fine except the logos and icons won't appear on it, and the format of the text is weird which would suggest the style.css file is not being recognised. Then if i go to check my site, i get a page not found error in IE. I've checked my config.php paths over and over but can't work out the difficulty. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Grit.

Have you set $_CONF['site_url'] correctly? If you think you did and it still doesn't work, then please post your settings (paths and URLs), because without them it's almost impossible to help ... bye, Dirk

Hi Dirk! Thanks for the prompt reply... // +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ // | DATABASE SETTINGS | // | | // | These settings tell Geeklog about your database and how to connect to it. | // +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ $_DB_dbms = 'mysql'; // Do not change (currently, only MySQL is supported) $_DB_host = 'localhost'; $_DB_name = 'mysql'; // Yes, your DB must exist before running the installer! $_DB_user = 'e_novative'; $_DB_pass = 'e_novative'; $_DB_table_prefix = 'fl_'; // e.g. 'gl_' // optional settings for making database backups from within Geeklog $_DB_mysqldump_path = '/usr/bin/mysqldump'; // path to mysqldump binary e.g. /usr/bin/mysqldump $_CONF['allow_mysqldump'] = 1; // 1 = on, 0 = off // +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ // | SERVER SETTINGS | // | | // | All paths must have a trailing slash ('/'). If you're on Windows, they | // | must also start with a drive letter (e.g. 'C:/'). | // | The 'path' value signifies where the config.php (this file) resides | // +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ $_CONF['path'] = 'c:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs/'; // C:/inetpub/wwwroot/geeklog/ // You only need to change this if you moved or renamed the public_html // directory. In that case, you should specify the complete path to the // directory like this (i.e. without the $_CONF['path']): // $_CONF['path_html'] = 'c:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs/public_html/'; $_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'public_html/'; // you shouldn't need to edit the following $_CONF['path_system'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'system/'; $_CONF['path_log'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'logs/'; $_CONF['path_language'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'language/'; $_CONF['rdf_file'] = $_CONF['path_html'] . 'backend/geeklog.rdf'; $_CONF['backup_path'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'backups/'; // +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ // | SITE SETTINGS | // | | // | These settings help define your Geeklog site. | // +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ // make sure this is the correct URL to your site (no trailing slash) $_CONF['site_url'] = 'http://www.example.com'; $_CONF['site_name'] = 'Geeklog Site'; $_CONF['site_slogan'] = 'Another Nifty Geeklog Site'; $_CONF['site_mail'] = 'admin@example.com'; $_CONF['theme'] = 'XSilver'; // default theme // Some hosting services have a preconfigured admin directory. In that case, // you need to rename Geeklog's admin directory to something like "myadmin" // and change the following URL as well. Leave as is until you experience any // problems accessing Geeklog's admin menu. $_CONF['site_admin_url'] = $_CONF['site_url'] . '/admin';

Well, if this is the config.php you're using, then it's no surprise - you still have $_CONF['site_url'] = 'http://www.example.com'; That should have the URL of your site. The rest looks okay at first glance. bye, Dirk

I was just leaving 'http://www.example.com' there until i had an 'example' site up and running. Then i was going to restart with the proper url i would be using. I had tried ''http://www.maxatron.com' previously but got the same errors, ie the Success.php page appeared with no logos or without the style.css page being referenced. Do i need to set something that allows Internet Explorer to see www.maxatron.com offline? Because it appears to me that i've done everything correctly to set up the Geeklog site.

where "http://www.example.com" exist remove it and place either one of these addresses which should work for testing geeklog on your own machine... http://127.0.0.1/ http://192.168.0.1/ http://localhost/ Keep in mind that though geeklog should become browsable on your own machine that none of the URLs above will work for anyone else... Except the 192. address... Every machine has an IP address and if you're able to find it and it is not any of the above or starts out with 192. you can use that address to make your portal publicly available... I am vbgunz I lost my user and pass I will find it... Good luck

I am sorry what I said before might sound a bit confusing... the address that starts out with 192. can not be publicly available but can be seen over an internal network only "LAN". The only IP address that can be seen by the public is any ip address that I did not mention and that does not fall between the range of 192.168.0.1 and 255.255.255.255 To call your geeklog portal for testing use the IP number without the "www" http://127.0.0.1/geeklog/path