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Serendipity as Home Page
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:51 pm
by javaravyn
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@
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:14 am
by Riken
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/
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:52 pm
by Little Hamster
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.
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:32 pm
by Guest
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@
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:14 pm
by Little Hamster
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.
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:31 am
by garvinhicking
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
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:42 pm
by Little Hamster
Garvin, thanks for the reply. Didn't know the link count is applied to trackbacks as well.
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:20 am
by dand
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
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:20 pm
by javaravyn
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.