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The paths are fundamental. It surprises me how difficult it is to find help on this.. I have solved 10 plus errors on the install for 1.3.8-1sr3 but the one that follows, I coulnd not, I need your help as to WHICH FILE NEEDS FIXING AND HOW.

I just answered this here.


Excuse me? It's covered in the FAQ, for example. Not to mention the postings all over the installation forum ...

In your case, you seem to have missed this comment just above the one line you changed in lib-common.php:
bye, Dirk

Thank you for your repplies. Not really the file lib.common.php was all along like this.

Now this is happening after going through al mysql stuff and just prior to success. Whould this have anything to do with the location of "ADMIN"?. In my case is under the public_html directory. (I still do not understand why you need httpdocs AND PUBLIC_HTM one after the other)
Thank you again

Actually, you shouldn't. There's a lengthy paragraph in the installation instructions trying to explain that "public_html" is just a popular name for the public directory of a website (also called the document root) and that it may have a different name for you (e.g. "htdocs" or, in your case, "httpdocs").

So what you probably should do is to move everything from Geeklog's public_html directory into your httpdocs directory and fix the paths in config.php (notably $_CONF['path_html']) accordingly.

bye, Dirk

Dirk, I'm bewildered by one thing: What is the specific reason to separate some of the folders/files into the non-public area? Is it a security issue? I am using a Fantastico-installed version of Geeklog. Everything was dumped into the directory I specified (http://www.ro-jo.net/geeklog/ and everything runs fine, but I am worried that the site can be hacked if there are items in there that shouldn't be viewed.

When I tried moving the "non public_html" folders to geekadmin (since my web host already had an admin directory), it hosed the site and I had to reinstall.

What was I doing wrong? And what is the harm in leaving everything in the public_html directory? (I'm not being facetious here, I genuinely want to know.)

My site is here.

Thanks!

Joni

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My Geeklog Site:
http://www.ro-jo.net.com/geeklog/

Any file in the public directory space is accessible to anyone and most likely readable. You really only need files in this directory that need to be accessed by a user directly by URL.

The web server can then include other PHP code via a file name and that can be outside the public space.

The files are separated this way to allow you to isolate the system files from the public files.

If all your files are in the public accessible directory I may be able to write a program and read your config.php. And that has your database username and password in it.

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if you want to fix that problem, move config.php to a non-public directory. Then open config.php change the location of the $_CONF['path'] to /path/to/geeklog/(where you put config.php)
Then open lib-common.php and change:
include('/path/to/geeklog/') to where config.php is.

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Thanks, guys, for your answer. This helps me out. I'll go ahead and do that this weekend so I will sleep a bit better!

I recall when I first tried to install geeklog on another site back in Nov. 2002, I did attempt to isolate the directories but I couldn't get geeklog to run ... or it did run, but with great difficulty. I now attribute that in part to the fact that I knew even less about what I was doing than I do now (if you can fathom that!).

Again, thanks a bunch. I'm really enjoying this program!

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My Geeklog Site:
http://www.ro-jo.net.com/geeklog/