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Hi , I get many problems while installing , please help in few issues:

1. I dont understant the public_html issue. I have on my server root an httpdocs folder , under it i installed the geekloog copy and now my index.php is under the public_html folder (www.zip..p.com/public_html/ ) , please explain me how it works.
I want my geeklog application to be on the main root.

2. the config.php drove me nuts , too many parameters that got me all mixed up.
does any one has a sample config.php doc i can use and update mine.

3. How do i set up a language (hebrew) and what does the config.php have to do with it?

1) think httpdocs = public_html - it's just another name for the same thing.


2) See where in config.php it says
So, to get the site up and running, concentrate on the options above that remark. Specifically, the DB settings, $_CONF['path'], $_CONF['path_html'], and $_CONF['site_url'].


3) How do I change the language?
For starters:

HTH

bye, Dirk

well i finally made it , I hope i didnt make any damage but it is working :banana:
I copied all public_html files to my main root and got it working.

in any case i set up the language and this is working fine , now a new problem comes up and I will be happy if you can assist.
I went to the boxes section and set the "whats new" to a label in hebrew.
check out the www.zippi.co.il

on the top left you will see the ??????

probably db transformation problem (dbms) , can it be fixed?

Hmm, I thought you would have to set the collation in the database to UTF-8 (something Geeklog currently doesn't do, although it probably should), but that doesn't seem to help. Try it anyway - there are a few people running Geeklog sites in Hebrew ...

bye, Dirk

that would be per connection configuration or one time db statment ?

Per connection, I think. See if this helps.

bye, Dirk

I think i still need your help :

This example shows how to configure mysqld server to use pure utf8 for server's character set and collation instead of default latin1. This will help to correctly store non-latin character data in db (cyrillic сharacters for example and russian language in particularly).

Go to the [mysqld] section in my.cnf and add two strings:

collation_server=utf8_unicode_ci
character_set_server=utf8

You can also add

skip-character-set-client-handshake

to enforce using of utf8 encoding in db.


what is the my.cnf ???

how do i change the connection collection in geeklog ?

what should i chnage in the source?

any one ?

my.cnf is the MySQL configuration file. If you're on a shared host, you probably don't have access to it. In which case you'll have to change the collation in all the tables in your database. phpMyAdmin will let you do that, for example.

bye, Dirk

well it finaly worked.
I exported the sql of the db , changed all tables charset to utf8 and now the geeklog supports hebrew.
one thing is still missing.

Hebrew is typed from right to left.
ho do i align the blocks and the text this way ?


thanks

Amnon

If you use the Hebrew language file, it should automatically switch to RTL display, at least with the default Professional theme.

It may not be perfect, though - we have a few outstanding patches for RTL support ...

bye, Dirk

thanks again , but i got a little lost here.

before i go and start working on the css and dig into the php.

can you be more specific or recomand a template that supports right to left.

As I said, the Professional theme should support RTL out of the box. The "secret" being this line in header.html:
The {direction} is replaced with dir="rtl" automatically.

If you're using a different theme, you can simply add that there or hard-code it to dir="rtl".

bye, Dirk