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My site, wheelsofterror.com , is done it html with dozens of different sub directories, for each type of media (audio, art, stories, reviews, etc). Is there a way with GL1.04 to maintain my dir structure, ultra categorized? I'm not sure what's best to do this or to create another similar idea. I suppose our reviews and stories are articles or topics? Unless I just use it in the file ids like Reviews-Movies-Title. Then I'd be able to keep them organized in 1 dir.

I've near 600 reviews though. Will the GL have trouble listing that many? I'd hate to view lists with 25 items per page. Is it possible to FTP to the list so I can update there?

One last thing. Do I have to use the geeklog dir or can I put it in my main dir?

http://wheelsofterror.com/geeklog/public_html// is where it's at now.

thanks,
John

Geeklog keeps the stories in the database, so they're not on your webspace and they can only be accessed via fixed URLs like www.example.com/article.php/myreview, etc. So no subdirectories there - but does that really matter? Topics can serve as a replacement for subdirectories: Have a review topic, an art, and an audio topic, etc. See how they work here on the site (our Topics block is called "Sections" for historical reasons, otherwise it's the same you see on your site).

Geeklog has no restrictions for the number of stories or topics it can handle (well, okay, you'd run out of story IDs eventually, but not before you run out of space before your database ...).

As for the "public_html" bit, you don't have to have that, of course (and in fact you shouldn't). Please see the installation instructions again.

bye, Dirk

Thanks. Just found out how to use Topics. I think I'll create static page for non-text pages.

The reason I mentioned # of stories is that I'd like to be able to have every story title listed on their respective topics. Is this possible?

Not sure how to change public_html yet. Godaddy installed it. config.php? Just there? Or lib-common.php too? I think that's what these instructions mean?

I seem to remember a "story by topics" block or something like that that someone posted. See if you can find that.



You will either have to move the files around or change your domain settings such that the domain's webroot is Geeklog's public_html directory (if that's possible with GoDaddy). Actually, try searching for "GoDaddy" as we have quite a few posts about how to setup Geeklog there.

bye, Dirk