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i am installing on a linux server

i have www/_private/geeklog/ for my config.php
and www/user/weblog/ for lib-common.php (public_html)

here is my code problem:

// This should point to the directory where your config.php file resides.
$_CONF['path'] = '/home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/_private/geeklog/'; // should end in a slash

// You only need to change this if you moved or renamed the public_html
// directory. In that case, you should specify the complete path to the
// directory (i.e. without the $_CONF['path']) like this:
// $_CONF['path_html'] = '/path/to/your/public_html/';
$_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'user/weblog/';

i get this error:

Template Error: set_root: /home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/_private/geeklog/user/weblog/layout/XSilver is not a directory.
Halted.

can Geeklog be installed in other than root (public_html) folder? and if it can, what am i doing wrong?

i hope i have given enough info. thanks.

is this the proper directory structure for your themes? or not?

without seeing what you've set your $_CONF['path_layout'] to, I would suggest that you've an error in your $_CONF['path_html']. I would think that your html path is 'user/weblog/' without the $_CONF['path']...

that, or you are missing the XSilver directory.

hope that helps. just ask yourself, "is the path/directory in the error a proper path/directory?"

i followed the instructions on the website:

Basically, a Geeklog installation consists of two parts: The part that is visible "to the world" - which is everything in the public_html directory. "public_html" is a popular name for the world-accessible directory that can be found on a webserver ("htdocs" and "www" are other popular names). So if you have such a directory, just copy everything from Geeklog's public_html directory into that directory on your webserver. Then you only need to set up $_CONF['path_html'] (in config.php) to point to that directory.

/home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/user/weblog/

The other part of Geeklog, which is everything outside the public_html directory, should not be accessible via a URL since it contains sensitive information. So you should really put those files and directories outside of your document root (i.e. outside the web server's public_html, htdocs, or www directory). Then you only need to set up $_CONF['path'] (again, in config.php) to point to the place where you put those files and directories.

/home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/_private/geeklog/

/user/ directory is on the same level as /_private/ directory

/home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/_private/geeklog/user/weblog/layout/XSilver
is invalid

/home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/user/weblog/layout/XSilver
is valid

it seems to me that whatever is in
$_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'user/weblog/';
gets tacked on the end of
$_CONF['path'] = '/home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/_private/geeklog/';

if i put 'home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/user/weblog' in $_CONF['path_html'] i would get

Template Error: set_root: /home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/_private/geeklog/home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/user/weblog/layout/XSilver is not a directory.
Halted.

does the html folder (/user/weblog) have to reside in a subdirectory under /geeklog/ ?

no it doesn't, but you have to modify your paths to accomodate.

try changing
$_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'user/weblog/';
to
$_CONF['path_html'] = '/home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/user/weblog/';
and leave
$_CONF['path'] = '/home/content/c/h/i/chide/html/_private/geeklog/';
as it is.

this should work if, as you say, the 'user' dir is on the same level with the '_private' dir. otherwise, according to the script's normal action, the html path is going to be tacked on to the geeklog path.

Your config.php file in the latest geeklog tarball is bunged up and needs to be corrected.

Here's what it looks like:

// You only need to change this if you moved or renamed the public_html
// directory. In that case, you should specify the complete path to the
// directory (i.e. without the $_CONF['path']) like this:
// $_CONF['path_html'] = '/path/to/your/public_html/';
$_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'public_html/';


As you can see, there's a little extra bit in the active line that's effectively concatenating the two variables' contents.

Shame on you!!!!!

nothing new here... it looks to function the way it is supposed to, i.e., the path variable plus the public_html dir, thus concencantenationing...

or did i misunderstand you?