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Greetings, all


I am trying to move an existing site, running Geeklog 1.4.0b1 to a new server, so I can bring the old one down for an OS re-install (something about RHEL 3 is just not aging well). The new server is running RHEL 4 stock, and I installed PHP 5.2.0 and Apache 2.2.4. Both were build fresh, and PHP was compiled with magic quotes enabled. URL rewrites are enabled in conf.php, and register globals is on in php.ini. Unfortunately, on the new server, the forums do not work. I can see the forums from the forum main page, but whenever I click on a forum, it reloads the forum mail page instead of taking me into that forum (so it looks like the page 'blinks', if you know what I mean). Whenever I click on the last post button, it gives me a topic access error, and tells me that the topic was probably deleted. My first thought was that the website was not connecting to mysql, but other things seem to be coming out of the database just fine. All of the user info is there, calendar events are there, can be editted, etc. And I can connect to the database with a sql viewer just fine. So my next guess is that the URLs are not getting rewritten, but I am not certain how to test this off hand.

So.... Does anyone have any pointers on how to check URL rewrites, or any other suggestions as too why the forums might not be working? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Dracus

Ouch. A server move would have been a good opportunity to upgrade Geeklog. 1.4.0b1 is a beta version that's over 16 months out of date now. Not to mention the security issues that have been found in 1.4.0 since.

As for the forum: It doesn't even use Geeklog's URL rewriting, so that's not the problem. Double-check that you really have register_globals = on. Or maybe you want to upgrade the forum as well, since the latest version doesn't require register_globals to be on.

bye, Dirk