[geeklog-devel] Fresh install Admin Directory Path issue

[Gary Moncrieff]

Thanks mark, this is an issue I was having too when installing in a sub
directory, also happens with GL2 in a sub directory, will test this later.

Dazzy


On 26/10/2007, Mark R. Evans <mevans at ecsnet.com> wrote:
>
> Eric,
>
> As the current install script works, it will not properly detect the
> Geeklog admin directory if Geeklog is installed in a sub-directory off the
> web root.
>
> The problem is caused by using the $site_url when building the
> $site_admin_url variable.  Currently the following happens (using your issue
> as an example):
>
> $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = /gl15/admin/install/index.php
>
> $site_url is built by removing everything after 'admin' from PHP_SELF, so
> you end up with /gl15/
>
> $site_admin_url is built by removing everything after 'install' from
> PHP_SELF, which leaves: /gl15/admin/ and this is added to the end of
> $site_url, which gives us /gl15/gl15/admin/  where the sub-directory that
> Geeklog resides is duplicated.
>
> The fix is simple, change line 162 of admin/install/index.php to the
> following, this will build the site_admin_url variable independently of
> $site_url.
>
>             $site_admin_url = isset($_POST['site_admin_url']) ?
> $_POST['site_admin_url'] : 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] .
> preg_replace('/\/install.*/', '', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) ;
>
> That should have it properly detect the correct admin path.
>
> Thanks!
> Mark
>
> On 10/25/07, =MF=Geiss < geiss at midnightforce.com> wrote:
> >
> > This evening while setting up GL1.5CVS I noticed that the Admin
> > Directory Path setting, under Optional Configurations listed my admin
> > directory as http://geiss.getmyip.com/gl15/gl15/admin, (effectively with
> > double public_html calls) while my Site URL is
> > http://geiss.getmyip.com/gl15.
> >
> > You all are probably already aware, but just wanted to put it out there
> > on the off chance it wasn't caught. ...I remember vaguely though
> > something about this being discussed in the past. :-)
> >
> > Thx!
> >
> > Eric
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