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I just noticed that when you add a picture to a submitted article, it seems to 'hard-code' to the server url at the time that the story was submitted... I did some testing on a notebook with the server URL set to http://localhost/gl (so that I could work anywhere without having to reset the IP).

Then I set the machine URL to its real IP address, and found that when I tried to view the site from another machine - the site in general worked, but the links to the articles' pictures were broken.

Checking the page source from a remote machine, I found that the links to the pictures in the articles were still listed as "http://localhost/" rather than resolved to the machine URL - even though I had now set the address in config.php to the real address.

This suggests that these links are not respecting the config.php settings, and are getting statically set when the article is submitted instead of generated at runtime. Am I missing something here? Seems like a design bug maybe?

Thanks,

Joel

Yes.

bye, Dirk

It looks like the address is getting resolved when the article is saved, and the "[imageX]" tags are getting replaced at that point by the address from config.php. If this is the case, it would mean editing every article by hand if things move from server to server. Maybe this could be a runtime function, and leave the [imageX] tags in the article definition as-is?

Just a thought,

Joel

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It -was- for testing only! The problem with not using localhost is that if you're often on multiple networks with DHCP, it then means changing your config.php every time you move. Not that it's a -huge- thing, but it didn't seem that it should be necessary.

The other use case where this is a real problem is:
- User has gl installed on xyz hosting provider.
- User moves to another provider that hands out a different URL (or user decides to change domain name, or user wants to run a test server and a production server etc etc)
- Any one of these scenarios look like they'll break the picture links -in- articles, but all the other graphics links are just fine - this seems to be an isolated bug, but one that could cause 'lots of work and unhappiness' if you happen to fit the scenario.

Are there other things I should watch for in the GL config?

Thanks,

Joel