Serendipity as Home Page

javaravyn · Post by **javaravyn** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:51 pm

I am trying to set Serendipity as my home page, but I haven't had much luck

my paths are set as follows:
Full path: /home/<userid>/public_html/serendipity
Upload path: uploads/
Relative path: /serendipity/
Relative template path: templates/
Relative upload path: uploads/
URL to blog: http://www.cushingonline.com
Index file: index.php

Should I just unzip the serendipity build to the root of my website instead? I was hoping to keep it all in a subdirectory and just publish the index.php to the root website.

Thanks,
M@

Riken · Post by **Riken** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:14 am

Unless you've set up your webserver so that the root path = /home/<userid>/public_html/serendipity you've got the wrong url. Also you're relative path looks wrong.

Set your relative path to /~<userid>/serendipity/

The url to blog should be http://www.cushingonline.com/~<userid>/serendipity/

Little Hamster · Post by **Little Hamster** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:52 pm

Should I just unzip the serendipity build to the root of my website instead? I was hoping to keep it all in a subdirectory and just publish the index.php to the root website.

Have a look at http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... ight=#1854. It shows how to create a 1-line index.php which re-directs traffic to a s9y installed in a subdirectory.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:32 pm

Riken wrote:Unless you've set up your webserver so that the root path = /home/<userid>/public_html/serendipity you've got the wrong url. Also you're relative path looks wrong.

Set your relative path to /~<userid>/serendipity/

The url to blog should be http://www.cushingonline.com/~<userid>/serendipity/

The way the webserver is set up at my host, my user id is before the public_html, so I don't have to use that. I think I am going to just set up my index page to kick it right to the serendipity page.

I did it with MT fairly easily, but I am done with them. 100 spam comments a day just got to be too much.

M@

Little Hamster · Post by **Little Hamster** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:14 pm

I thought MT has captcha plugins (for stopping comment spams). Or do they not work as well as they claim? I don't think serendipity has any measure to stop trackback spam, but I'm not sure.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:31 am

Well, you can turn on comment moderation for any entry, which includes trackbacks. And the word/link count anti-spam features do also work for trackbacks; captchas of course can't be applied to them. If you have an idea on how to get rid of possible trackback spam which isn't yet implemented, let me hear it

Regards,
Garvin

Little Hamster · Post by **Little Hamster** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:42 pm

Garvin, thanks for the reply. Didn't know the link count is applied to trackbacks as well.

dand · Post by **dand** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:20 am

Here's another way. If your web server allows htaccess files, you can put this in .htaccess at the root level:

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Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.cushingonline.com/serendipity/

I don't know if there's an advantage to doing it this way or the other way -- can anybody shed some light on which way is better? One issue might be that tracking referrers might not work properly.

Daniel

javaravyn · Post by **javaravyn** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:20 pm

dand wrote:Here's another way. If your web server allows htaccess files, you can put this in .htaccess at the root level:
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Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.cushingonline.com/serendipity/
I don't know if there's an advantage to doing it this way or the other way -- can anybody shed some light on which way is better? One issue might be that tracking referrers might not work properly.

Daniel

Why do you need to use a redirect? With MT, you could set it up as your index.php/html instead. Not trying to compare, just curious to see how they did it.