Textpattern CMS

#1 2006-01-15 19:44:47

G-breath

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Registered: 2006-01-15

Posts: 4

New install - 404 Comment not found

I install textpattern (a breeze – about 2 minutes)
I check out the admin (10 minutes of browsing)
I load my new homepage
I click on the sample comment
404 – Page not found
I delete the sample article and write my own, turn on comments
Load the homepage, click the comment link…
404 – Page not found.

What gives?

Pre-flight check
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Textpattern version: 4.0.3 (r1188)
last_update: 2006-01-15 17:19:20/2006-01-15 17:10:00
Document root: /home/g/public_html
$path_to_site: /home/g/public_html
Textpattern path: /home/g/public_html/textpattern
Permanent link mode: section_id_title
Temp folder: /home/g/public_html/textpattern/tmp
Site URL: www.g.net
PHP version: 4.4.1
server_time: 2006-01-15 14:45:32
MySQL: 4.1.14-standard
Locale: en_GB.UTF-8
Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
php_sapi_mode: cgi
os_version: Linux 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp

.htaccess file contents:
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Last edited by G-breath (2006-01-15 21:22:58)

#2 2006-01-15 19:46:00

KurtRaschke

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Registered: 2004-05-16

Posts: 275

Re: New install - 404 Comment not found

This is in the FAQ.

-Kurt

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#3 2006-01-15 19:55:41

G-breath

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Re: New install - 404 Comment not found

Thanks for the link as that looks like exactly my problem, but the text in the FAQ is incorrect and I don’t have a “messy” option. Where can I access this feature? Textpattern version: 4.0.3 (r1188)

“The simplest solution is to use “messy” URLs instead (textpattern > admin > preferences).”

I have the following options:
Admin -> Site Preferences or
Admin -> Advanced preferences

I do not have “messy” (or Clean) option on the above pages nor on any admin page I can find.
On the ‘Site Preferences’ page I have a “Site URL” option
on the ‘Advanced Preferences page I have a “Max URL length” option

#4 2006-01-15 20:33:28

KurtRaschke

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Registered: 2004-05-16

Posts: 275

Re: New install - 404 Comment not found

The FAQ is not wrong; please examine your preferences page more closely. Also, based on your diagnostics posted above, your .htaccess file is empty or missing. Correct that, and you’ll probably be able to use clean URLs.

See also this FAQ entry.

-Kurt

Last edited by KurtRaschke (2006-01-15 20:35:14)

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#5 2006-01-15 21:07:28

G-breath

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Registered: 2006-01-15

Posts: 4

Re: New install - 404 Comment not found

I found the default .htaccess file and changed the following line

#RewriteBase /relative/web/path/
to
#RewriteBase /

and pages and comments now load. Thank you for the links to get me to this.

The install was so clean and simple, no errors nor warnings and the diags come up 100% clean, that’s what made this so confusing.

As for the FAQ instructions, I’m new and may be overlooking them but…
As stated in the FAQ “textpattern > admin > preferences” is where to look
(there are two pref. pages under this location, that is what is not clear, why not be clear?)

- Admin + Preferences defaults to the “Site Preferences” page where the word “messy” does not exist.

- Admin + Preferences also has a second Pref. option page where the word “messy” also does not exist “Advanced preferences”.

Here’s the Preference pages from my install, there is no mention of Messy and there is no other location I can see that matches the FAQ.

ADMIN -> PREFERNCES -> SITE PREFERNCES (default landing page for the FAQ instructions)
Site Preferences
Advanced preferences Manage languages
Publish
Site name ?
Site URL ?
Site tagline ?
Time Zone ?
Daylight Savings no yes ?
Date format ?
Archive date format ?
Permanent link mode ?
Logging ?
Use Textile ?
Accept comments no yes ?
Production Status ?
Comments
Moderate comments no yes ?
On by default? no yes ?
Present comments as a numbered list? no yes ?
Mail comments to author no yes ?
Disallow user images no yes ?
Default invite ?
Comments date format ?
Comments mode ?
Disabled after ?
Automatically append comments to articles? no yes ?

ADMIN -> PREFERNCES -> ADVANCED PREFERNCES
Advanced preferences
Site Preferences Manage languages
Admin
How many articles on RSS? ?
Send Last-Modified header no yes ?
Image directory ?
Max Upload File Size (bytes) ?
Temp folder ?
File Upload Path ?
Use ISO-8859-1 for e-mails? (default is utf-8) no yes ?
plugin_cache_dir ?
Comments
Comments require user name? no yes ?
Comments require user email? no yes ?
css
Edit raw CSS by default? no yes ?
custom
Custom field 1 name ?
Custom field 2 name ?
Custom field 3 name ?
Custom field 4 name ?
Custom field 5 name ?
Custom field 6 name ?
Custom field 7 name ?
Custom field 8 name ?
Custom field 9 name ?
Custom field 10 name ?
link
Textile links description by default? no yes ?
Publish
Update Ping-o-matic no yes ?
Allow PHP on pages? no yes ?
Allow PHP on articles? no yes ?
Show comment count in feeds? no yes ?
Syndicate excerpt? (default is body) no yes ?
Include email in atom feeds? no yes ?
New comment means site updated? no yes ?
Never display email? no yes ?
Articles use excerpts? no yes ?
Allow form override? no yes ?
Attach titles to permalinks? no yes ?
Permalink title-like-this (default is TitleLikeThis) no yes ?
Expire logs after ?
Use plugins? no yes ?
Ping textpattern.com? no yes ?
Use DNS? no yes ?
Use admin side plugins? no yes ?
Use nofollow on comments? no yes ?
Use mail on feeds id? no yes ?
Max URL length ?
Spam blacklists (comma separated) ?

Last edited by G-breath (2006-01-15 21:11:51)

#6 2006-01-15 21:47:54

KurtRaschke

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Registered: 2004-05-16

Posts: 275

Re: New install - 404 Comment not found

Did you look under “Permanent link mode”?

-Kurt

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kurt@kurtraschke.com

#7 2006-01-16 01:28:39

G-breath

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Registered: 2006-01-15

Posts: 4

Re: New install - 404 Comment not found

Didn’t didn’t look there since “permanent link mode” isn’t mentioned in the FAQ, doesn’t contain the FAQ keywords URL or Messy and I have no idea what “permamnent link” means.

Actual location:
The simplest solution is to use “messy” URLs instead (textpattern > admin > preferences > permanent link mode > messy).