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Site URL doesn't work like I think it should
Site URL doesn’t seem to be working the way I think it should on my new site. I have the site URL as
198.252.106.70/~skewrayc
The resulting link for
!/images/10t.jpg (description)!:/images/10.jpg
links to
198.252.106.70/images/10.jpg
which is wrong. I do get the diagnostic errors:
DNS lookup failed: 198.252.106.70 Clean URLs are only supported on Apache, use at your own risk.
but I don’t know what those really mean.
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Re: Site URL doesn't work like I think it should
skewray wrote #305694:
Site URL doesn’t seem to be working the way I think it should on my new site. I have the site URL as
198.252.106.70/~skewrayc...The resulting link for
!/images/10t.jpg (description)!:/images/10.jpg...links to
198.252.106.70/images/10.jpg...which is wrong. I do get the diagnostic errors:
DNS lookup failed: 198.252.106.70...but I don’t know what those really mean.
Are you testing in a windows machine? If so check out this link
Temporary fix: you could use:
!/~skewrayc/images/10t.jpg (description)!Yiannis
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Re: Site URL doesn't work like I think it should
The machine is some sort of Redhat derivative.
I suppose I could dump the database, do a global search and replace, and then upload it again. There are maybe a hundred references to be hacked that way. I’d rather find a fix at this point.
I could replace all of the image references with txp:image references instead, but I don’t know the exact syntax. What would the above reference be in txp syntax?
Last edited by skewray (2017-05-14 19:37:53)
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Re: Site URL doesn't work like I think it should
I don’t think Textile takes the Site URL (the one configured in Textpattern settings) into consideration.
Also, DNS isn’t related at all with causing this issue, even if clean URLs aren’t working properly in your local setup.
The output you get (198.252.106.70/images/10.jpg) is the correct one for the Textile you are using (!/images/10t.jpg (description)!:/images/10.jpg).
I’d suggest a site-wide fix via .htaccess, doing an internal rewrite or a redirect. This will save you from tinkering with the database.
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I forgot about .htaccess. Yes, that would fix it. Thanks!
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maniqui wrote #305698:
I’d suggest a site-wide fix via .htaccess, doing an internal rewrite or a redirect. This will save you from tinkering with the database.
Would this be: RedirectMatch 301 ^/images/?(.+)?$ http://198.252.106.70/~skewrayc/images/$1 ?
Yiannis
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colak wrote #305701:
Would this be:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/images/?(.+)?$ http://198.252.106.70/~skewrayc/images/$1?
This syntax doesn’t appear to work. I had a happy moment when I thought it did, and then realized that I was on the old site.
I expect several hours of Apache manual reading in my future, since I can’t remember this stuff.
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You could try
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/images/(.*)$ http://198.252.106.70/~skewrayc/images/$1 [R=301,L]Yiannis
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colak wrote #305716:
You could try
RewriteEngine on...
This doesn’t appear to work either. Odd. The links are unchanged.
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This one?
RedirectMatch 301 /images/(.*) http://198.252.106.70/~skewrayc/images/$1and here is another method
RewriteRule ^subdirectory/(.*)$ http://198.252.106.70/~skewrayc/images/$1 [R=301,NC,L]Last edited by colak (2017-05-16 17:18:28)
Yiannis
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I just thought of another idea.
If you go to Admin>Preferenes>Admin there should be a field in there for images. Make sure that the field just contains: images
Yiannis
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None of these appear to work. I do get images if I use a <txp:…> reference. The same thing happens with cgi-bin, /articles/…, and so on. Time to make another support ticket, I guess.
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In the other thread, it says your server is Litespeed not Apache. I’m not familiar with it but it is supposed to offer Apache parity (along with a special built-in caching mechanism that might have been the source of your other problem) – also for htaccess. There do seem to be numerous htaccess queries in connection with Litespeed, though.
Perhaps you need to first ascertain if htaccess rewriting works at all. Also, see if there’s a way to turn on rewrite logging so you can debug what’s happening.
Final idea: what I normally do when testing a site is set up a subdomain such as test.domain.com or v2.domain.com etc. and then point that to the directory with the new installation. That way you don’t need to deal with the installation in a subdirectory problem at all.
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Re: Site URL doesn't work like I think it should
As far as I can tell, none of these redirects work because the .htaccess file would need to be in the folder above mine on the server. However, on the suggestion from HawkHost, I successfully tested my site by redirecting my own machine by adding an entry for the domain into /etc/hosts.
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