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Morning all, I'm having a problem with Geeklog. Was all working fine on a company intranet server - until the company changed its name so the virtual directory (URL) under which Geeklog was hosted was changed. The server name, physical location and name of Geeklog and the database were not changed in any way. Now users cannot log in, stories cannot be posted, etc. The log files have not been appended since the change was made. However, existing stories do display on the front page. It's running on a Win2000 box with IIS. Any ideas? Thanks.

How about simply changing the path settings in config.php and lib-common.php accordingly?

bye, Dirk

I had already tried editing config.php. On your advice, I am now looking at lib-common.php, but which bit do I need to change? There are over 5000 lines in my file Would I need to restart the app at any point? Sadly, due to this being for a large company, there is a lot of red tape surrounding perfectly simply things like restarting Geeklog... it could take a week to get permission
Cheers, Jonathan

There's only one line that you need to change - the one that include config.php.

Am I right in assuming that you used some automated installer for the initial install?

bye, Dirk

I was not at the company when Geeklog was installed so I am not sure how it was done. The guy who set it up can't remember how it works either.
The 'include' line in lib-common.php already points to the right location of config.php, no files were actually moved, just the URL of the site. I reckon it just needs to be restarted, so I'll have to go about filling in forms and whatnot to get it restarted.
Thanks for your help!

Sorry, I see I misunderstood your original post there. If the URL changed, then it's of course $_CONF['site_url'] that has to be changed accordingly.

You may also have a few problems then with hard-coded links in stories - you'll have to fix those manually. I would export the database, do a search and replace in a text editor and import it again.



There's nothing to be "restarted". Geeklog reads the config.php every time one of its URLs is called up.

bye, Dirk

I changed the $_CONF['site_url'] to reflect the new URL. I also looked through the whole config.php for other settings I might have to change. The Geeklog files themselves were never moved, only the domain changed. Links in stories are not the problem. The database is still fully operational, it's just that nobody can log in once the URL is made different from the original. Would be nice if I could present an example to you but this is hosted on a private company intranet. My boss wants me to fix this asap - do you have any further ideas? Cheers.

For login problems, see I can't log in.

bye, Dirk

Thanks, I checked al the the things on the list. Problem still persists. I'm starting to think the login problems are caused by IIS. Geeklog works fine under one directory, but as soon as the directory is renamed (making appropriate adjustemnts to config.php and lib-common.php, of course) it will not accept logins. This has a whole team of techies here worrying. Should be no need to change cookie settings because this is on the same server as before and there were never any problems then.

Hey,
Seeing that u mentioned that only the virtuaral directory change, not the locations of the files,

u have configured the config.php, and lib-common.php..
u have only one logical thing to do,

go on the IIS server and issue this command

iisreset.exe

this will only restart the IIS Server, and not the entire server..

Hopefully u can do this early in the morning, or late at nite when noone is on the server

i believe IIS only needs the restart inorder to caputure the new name/location of the virtual server.

let me know if this works

Hopefully, i don't think u would need lots of paper works for this operation

- Sidi

Cheers for you advice.

Sadly, even that change requires paperwork and 48 hours notice. But I did it anyway, and it had no effect. Hm....

Hi, I've just solved the problem. I moved Geeklog to another domain and it was not possible to log in. After two hours of searching I have found that it was caused by a variable $_CONF['cookiedomain'] in config.php. There was the old domain. After changing to new one it works.