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Here\'s the problem: I have duplicate Geeklog installs on a development server and a commercial server. At least, I would like to have them be as close to identical as is possible. (Obviously, config.php and, to a lesser extent, lib-common.php must contain unique, site-specific info.) My problem shows up in two places: 1. Normal blocks where I\'ve included links. For instance, the normal block link to my Gallery install contains the complete URL, including the domain name. You can\'t just have gallery/index.php because you don\'t always start from the web root. The first alternative that comes to mind is to switch from normal blocks to php blocks and then put all of these in lib-custom.php and use the $_CONF[site_url] variable. Is there any other option for passing the site url variable to a normal block? The theme variable {site_url} gets stripped out. 2. The database hard-codes the domain name with the included images and the what\'s related links for stories. As a result, if you dump the database from one install into the other install, all of the images and related links in the articles contain the wrong (original) domain info. Is there a way around this? John Hughes

Normal blocks don\'t support variables. The What\'s Related block is created dynamically in 1.3.8, so that shouldn\'t be a problem any more (and for 1.3.7, there\'s this script I wrote). You\'re right about the URL for images - completely missed that one. That should be addressed in a future release. Can you submit a bug report, so it\'s not forgotten? bye, Dirk

On normal blocks, you can list urls without the domain name. By placing a / first the server treats it as starting from the root. For example, /gallery/index.php == http://www.yourdomain.tld/gallery/index.php This is what I do in normal blocks to get around moving from a development to a production site.

Hmmm. I could have sworn I tried this. But I realize now that my problem was that I used gallery/index.php instead of /gallery/index.php. Thanks