I can't view my blog

[gracia]

I installed it okay, amd i can get to the serendipity_admin.php and i can make new entries, basically the admin side of things work, but i can't view my blog from my page and i've tried all i can think of

http://www.gracia.rucus.net/blog

[garvinhicking]

That's really strange. What files are inside your /blog subdirectory? Isn't there an 'index.php'?

What does your .htaccess file look like?

Regards,
Garvin

[gracia]

well if i look in my /blog subdirectory it's empty, that is if i use windows to view the files, but that can't be as i have the admin side of things working, when i try to get to my .htaccess file from a browser I'm forbidden.

when i use shell i can see the files in the /blog subdirectory but i can't open any of the htaccess files: Permission forbidden

and i can't to chmod them either: Permission forbidden

[garvinhicking]

This is really strange, because it does look like Apache is not finding the files either; I don't know how it's accessing things.

I don't know your FTP/SSH/Web setup, but there's something wrong with it.

.htaccess files can never be read via a browser, so you need to look it up via SSH or FTP, that must be possible somehow...

Maybe you need to ask your provider where the serendipity files are and why you can'T see them?!

[gracia]

OK i have managed to chmod 755 my blog directory so i can see my files in explorer as shown here



am i missing some or is it something else entirely...

[gracia]

Please help I'm not sure what to do now...

[garvinhicking]

You have to tune your FTP client so that you can view files prepended with a '.'. Then look at the '.htaccess' file and tell us what the file contains.

Please also check your serendipity_config_local.inc.php if it contains the proper Database names. If you can'T access the file, upload a view.php:

Code: Select all

<?php
echo file_get_contents('serendipity_config_local.inc.php');
?>

so it shows you the contents. If they seem correct, please check your SQL Databasetable 'serendipity_config' and see if all the paths (serendipityHTTPPath, serendipityBaseURL, ...) are right there.

Hope that'll bring us further