I'll take a look at that

fyi

http://oracledoug.com/serendipity/index ... ssues.html

BINGO!

Everything works just fine now ;-)

Argh, what a crazy ride this has been, I've been sitting here chewing my nails wondering if I did something really stoopid with andreas08, and here we are dealing with a missing default folder.

So there *was* a 'stupid factor'! You know, it must be ...

<ducks for cover>

Mmmm, yes, quite obvious really. Stupid user, I suppose

I think I may have renamed default to something else. Idiot.

Is there some way I can get a default default directory back without a reinstall? Is that the Serendipity 3 default theme?

I think I might have stumbled on the answer. I assume it's not okay for there to be no default directory here?!?!

-bash-3.00$ pwd
/var/www/vhosts/oracledoug.com/httpdocs/serendipity/templates
-bash-3.00$ ls -ltra
total 44
-rwxrwxrwx 1 oracledoug psacln 66 Apr 16 2005 HOWTO
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache ...

Whereas, when I switch back to one of the templates that's working, it returns this

Fetching COMMENTFORM FROM: "/var/www/vhosts/oracledoug.com/httpdocs/serendipity/templates/doug2/commentform.tpl"<br />Fetching ENTRIES FROM: "/var/www/vhosts/oracledoug.com/httpdocs/serendipity/templates/doug2 ...

Thanks for all your help. Apologies for my utter lack of PHP skills :-(

That's a useful debugging tool, though! This is what comes back ...

Fetching COMMENTFORM FROM: ""
Fetching ENTRIES FROM: "/var/www/vhosts/oracledoug.com/httpdocs/serendipity/templates/test/entries.tpl"
Fetching CONTENT FROM ...

you could add an


die('FETCHING COMMENTFORM');


It looks like that was executed. I got a single HTML page with just "FETCHING COMMENTFORM" in the top left corner.

If you care to get your hands dirty, you could grep around to see where the displayCommentForm() function gets called, and you ...

I thought you might say that which is why I included the directory. I thought it might be that, but I have another (unmodified) andreas08 directory with the same problem.

-bash-3.00$ pwd
/var/www/vhosts/oracledoug.com/httpdocs/serendipity/templates/test
-bash-3.00$ more comments.tpl
{foreach from ...

Garvin,

There is a comments.tpl in the andreas08 subdirectory

-bash-3.00$ pwd
/var/www/vhosts/oracledoug.com/httpdocs/serendipity/templates/andreas08_mod/andreas08_mod
-bash-3.00$ more comments.tpl
{foreach from=$comments item=comment name="comments"}
<a id="c{$comment.id}"></a>
<div class ...

Garvin,

Don't tell me you actually do other things at the weekend!

Unfortunately, I'm at work now and don't have server access, so will need to check this from home tonight.

Cheers,

Doug

Carl,

Thanks - you're doing me the favour here and the likelihood is that I've messed up somewhere - trust me ;-)

I'll probably leave the problem in place for now, over the weekend, and put one of the working templates back in place if we can't find any root cause.

The truth is, I'd much rather ...

Carl,

First, I really appreciate the template and your help, particularly on a weekend.

I've just looked in entries.tpl (from the templates/andreas08 directory) and it looks like this, with a bit of leading and trailing text included

<div class="serendipity_center serendipity_msg_important ...

I've given that a try and don't think it worked ...
-bash-3.00$ pwd
/var/www/vhosts/oracledoug.com/httpdocs/serendipity/templates/andreas08
-bash-3.00$ ls -ltra config*
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracledoug psacln 276 Aug 19 21:13 config.inc.php
-bash-3.00$ cat config*
<?php # $Id: config.inc.php,v 1.1 2006/03/07 ...

I can't see anything obviously strange in the config.

I wonder if a reinstallation might be a good idea?