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I wanted to remove the categories directory of the URL for the blog

Example:

Old:

server/categories/name

New:

server/name

I changed this in the configuration -> paths area, but after I made the change, I can't access the administration page anymore. It just takes me to the blog home page.


Please Help

Hi!

Serendipity always needs a prefix for archives, categories, authors and feed links. You can rename "categories" to what you want, but you can not remove it.

If after a change you cannot access something it might be because your .htaccess file is no longer valid. I assume you are using mod_rewrite? How does your current .htaccess file in the root look like?

you should always be able to re-login by using http://yourserver/serendipity_admin.php

Regards,
Garvin

Thanks so much for the reply,

Unfortunately, I was never given file system access to the server so I can't say what htaccess looks like. (I'm working on the access now)

No matter what I do the serendipity_admin.php always redirects to the first page of the category that I tried to display without the category prefix in the URL.

The system admin was able to workaround this by changing the values in htaccess and in the database.



update serendipity_config set value = 'categories/%name%' where name ='permalinkCategoryStructure';



<<< RewriteRule ^([0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]

>>> RewriteRule ^categories/([0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]




His suggestion:
If they put a rule at the top of the rewrite list, it would prevent anything else from redirecting admin requests… something like this ought to do the trick -



RewriteRule ^serendipity_admin.php serendipity_admin.php [L,QSA]

Y'know, Garvin, that's not a bad idea. It seems like good sense to ensure that the admin page is available, even if someone messes up the .htaccess by changing the options.

Hi!

Good idea, committed.

Regards,
Garvin