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Hi,

I've been in the process of switching hosting providers, so I've been trying to install my s9y blog onto the new server. I've obviously not done it right, because now when I click on "Next Page" it always takes me back to page one (despite it saying "P2" in the URL - it's showing the same entries as page one). Even when I'm browsing in a category, it will take me back to the list of latest entries in all categories, instead of entries from the category I'd clicked on.

Looking through the forums here I saw a couple of similar posts, but none of the solutions seemed to apply to me, so I ask for your help and thank you in advance.

My temporary site URL that I've been given by my new host is http://69.89.31.122/~buymyart/ in case you need to take a look. Please let me know what information I need to provide to help you pin point the issue. Thanks.

Edit: I forgot to mention that I'm running version 1.5.5 ... I was thinking about upgrading it, but since I've made changes to the template, I wasn't sure if I'd lose these changes by upgrading to the current version, so I haven't tried it yet.

Hmm, that is strange....
Did you check all path settings in the backends configuration to reflect your new situation? Since you switch from a root (/) blog to a directory (/~buymyart/) blog?

I personally could imagine that this might be a matter of the .htaccess file redirects, having internally trouble to direct to ~dirs (tilde), without yelling an error. The category links are missing the ~buymyart part, but even putting this manually into the adressbar, this doesn't work. That is why I assume that this is a matter of that tilde dir and htaccess.

Next week Serendipity 1.7.1 will be out. You can upgrade to this (recommended!).
To save your "competition" template, copy the template dir and rename it "amandac2". Then open the info.txt file and rename the template name in there too. Then go to your backend (may need a further reload) and set that new theme in the styles section. Now your template is upgrade save!

Yea, maybe that's what's messing it up - the ~. I've been thinking I should just switch the site over before it gets working in the temp directory anyway, because I have a feeling once I get it working and then switch, it'll be broken again, because it's not going to be pointed at the root directory.

Thanks for the information about how to upgrade safely. I'll definitely give that a try.

I'll let you know how things turn out after switching the site over, hopefully that'll fix it

That seems to have fixed it. I made the actual site live on the new host, so it wasn't using the temporary ~directory anymore and after the DNS changed over, everything magically fell into place

Thanks so much for your help!

I am glad that helped you! Have fun with your blog.

@Garvin
Can we do anything in cores htaccess usage about that tilde issue?

@Garvin
Can we do anything in cores htaccess usage about that tilde issue?

The problem is not the ~ but it's a problem that you move s9y from / to /subdirectory. This is not supported and would require you to change all Path-References. This is why it works after you moved to / again properly.

Regards,
Garvin

Timbalu wrote:... but even putting this manually into the adressbar, this doesn't work. That is why I assume that this is a matter of that tilde dir and htaccess.

You can not try this now since the issue was solved, but I wondered why that manually added GET path part did not work too...