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I have followed the basic installation instructions properly but I'm still having a hard time getting folder blog to run properly. I'm not sure if it is a host related problem...but I keep running into errors anyway...I've tried switching permissions from 755-to 777

Any help would be greatly appreciated-- I am physically disabled, so it takes me awhile to work on and problem solve scripts. here are the two main errors that I receive...when I try to access my folderblog directory.

I've listed the URL below:
http://www.chazsouthard.org/pgal/fb.php/post/
and I've also tried.
http://www.chazsouthard.org/pgal/fb.php

both ways I run into errors and I'm not sure what direction to take next....

I'm very impressed with the folder blog demo, great work guys are getting it together and running.

thanks again in advance for your help in consideration

posted by Chaz on 26 Jul 05 at 1:05 PM

I'm having the same basic problems with this further observation... when i try to access the post function or navigate past the main page i get the error "No input file specified." any help would be appreciated. my URL is:

http://www.standardimagination.com/photoBlog/

posted by Rick on 27 Jul 05 at 11:22 AM

i just visited your site Chaz and i think you ought tocheck if your hosting service is running PHP 4.3. I was gettimg errors like you're seeing before i had my hosting service upgrade to 4.3 from 4.2.

unfortunately my problem persists. anothe rthread may provide an answer however... does it matter if you have folderblog in a subdirectory? or, asked another way, does folderBlog need to be in the root directory?

posted by Rick on 27 Jul 05 at 3:51 PM

I found this from donald in another thread.

"Sampo, set $use_alt_url in fb_settings.php to 1."

this solved many of my problems. I can now navigate from the main page and see the lion's share of my site. however I still can't get to my post page.

Any suggestions?

posted by Rick on 27 Jul 05 at 3:59 PM

Rick, sorry about the confusion. With $use_alt_url set, the post/ should appear as part of the query string; so instead of fb.php/post/, you use fb.php?p=post/ (which, for your site, is here.

Chaz, you have two problems. The first is a folderblog problem — you'll need to set $use_alt_url to 1 in your fb_settings.php file as Rick suggested. The second problem is with Hot-Springs.jpg — it's not a valid image file. Try re-saving and re-uploading it to your server.

posted by donald on 27 Jul 05 at 4:09 PM

Donald and Rick, thank you so much for your help. I was able to get
http://www.chazsouthard.org/pgal/fb.php/
to work successfully. But, I'm having trouble with the

http://www.chazsouthard.org/pgal/fb.php /post.
Is included in the original download? I can't seem to find it... do I need to install it from the previous version of older blog? I just don't see the directory/post anywhere in the installation directory... you happen to know where I would go wrong?
Thanks again for get me started.
Best,

posted by Chaz on 27 Jul 05 at 9:14 PM

Chaz, like Rick you'll have to use fb.php?p=post/ — for your site, that's here.

posted by donald on 27 Jul 05 at 9:47 PM

thanks donald... works like a charm now. fantastic bit of coding.

posted by Rick on 27 Jul 05 at 11:13 PM

Donald, thank you so much for all of your help and assistance. I love the photo interface
thanks again

posted by Chaz on 28 Jul 05 at 10:09 AM

I'll second that. I just finished customizing my site using the basic template, and the almanac template as jumping off points. I went in a different direction and dove into CSS and PHP to get the look I was after. If I had to code the whole thing I wouldn't be done till next year this time. Thanks again Donald.

posted by Rick on 3 Aug 05 at 10:26 AM

So it looks like most of use figured the main problem was confusion with the $use_alt_url in fb-settings.php.

So to get the user-friendly URLs is there something we can do with the htaccess file - much like WordPress has for example?

posted by France on 6 Aug 05 at 12:13 PM

Check my response to this post for .htaccess redirecting (as used on the preview blog). The 404 redirect (the second method I posted) is probably the best bet.

posted by donald on 19 Aug 05 at 1:48 AM

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