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When we post an article on our site, geeklog shows the users the introduction text, but when the click on "read more", the browser goes back to the home page of our site.

We traced the error by finding out what url it was trying to point to, and found that a slash is missing for some reason in the http://(whatever) when you click on "read more".

Obviously one line of one file got munged, and I'd like to trace this down and just add the slash back in. Any clue what file it is that handles the "read more" link?

Thanks.

My first guess would be something is wrong with your theme (layout/) but from looking at my files, that doesn't seem like it may be the place to look. Another thing to check is your config.php file and the line that says

$_CONF['site_url']

Make sure that is pointing to your site. Can you give an example of the link that is incorrect?

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T.Marquez Jr. -
Webmaster -
www.indianapolisfilm.net - Geeklog 1.4.0sr5-1

I'm working on trying to reproduce how we found the broken URL so I can give that to you.

config.php looks good.... site_url points to the correct place.

I've looked at the theme (professional) and can't find anything amiss there.

It might be worth noting here that I am still using 3.11sr1 because it was installed by "Fantastico", and I'm using a menu plugin to give me submenu capabilities and now Fantistico isn't so fantastic and refuses to update it. It seems to be quite the pain to update GL.

I've thought about copying all the text from the posts, re-installing from scratch, and trying to re-enter them, since a database backup and restore apparently won't work, but then I lose the comments others have posted. This is really quite frustrating all around.

Noted. I will have to point out that Fantistico will only get you so far, and if I'm not mistaken isn't necessarily an "approved" away of installing geeklog. But, I am speaking as someone who has always installed from scratch.



Amen. But you will learn a lot. I don't know much about the menu plugin, but one thing that has helped me quickly upgrade in the past (assuming shell accesss is available) is the copy -R command to move all the new files. Don't forget to back up your lib-custom.php and config.php.

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T.Marquez Jr. -
Webmaster -
www.indianapolisfilm.net - Geeklog 1.4.0sr5-1

I'm a little confused... if you don't use the menu plugin, how do you organize your site? I found the existing menu structure to be completely inadequate, because, for example, My wife has a blog section, I have a blog section, we share a book review section, there's a genealogical section, she's a pastor, and there is a section there on her devotional/inspirational thoughts, etc. That's all hard to do with the native menu system.

If I could get that sorted out without the plugin, upgrading would be a lot less painful.

I am linux adept, btw.

In any case, if I could just find out what happens when you click "read_more"... what files are called? If I knew that, perhaps I could find the error more easily.

Well, "read more" links to article.php, which uses system/lib-story.php to actually render the story. So start with those two files.

HTH

bye, Dirk

Thank you, Dirk!

My suspicion is that the error is someplace in the puctuation of the following lines, though I didn't get enough sleep, and my mind is a bit cloudy. The editor is not liking the double quote in the next to the last statement, but I'm apparently too tired to see what's wrong. This is from the file lib-story.php

if( !empty( $A['bodytext'] ))
{
$article->set_var( 'lang_readmore', $LANG01[2] );
$article->set_var( 'lang_readmore_words', $LANG01[62] );
$numwords = sizeof( explode( ' ', strip_tags( $A['bodytext'] )));
$article->set_var( 'readmore_words', $numwords );

$article->set_var( 'readmore_link', ''
. $LANG01[2] . ' (' . $numwords . ' ' . $LANG01[62]
. ') ' );
$article->set_var( 'start_readmore_anchortag', '' );
$article->set_var( 'end_readmore_anchortag', '' );
}

The forum has stripped some of the HTML from your post, so it's hard to tell what's wrong. Here's how it should look like:
Of course, you could always get a fresh copy of that file from the tarball ...

bye, Dirk

Well, I tried a fresh copy of both files from the tarball, backing up the original ones and dropping in the fresh ones. That failed to produce any improvement. My guess, then, is that the problem lies elsewhere. I'm going to comb through config.php again to see if I missed something there. The puzzling thing is that this suddenly stopped working without me having made any changes on my end. The only change I'm aware of on the server's end is that they upgraded the version of php. Are there known issues with that?