[geeklog-devel] Fresh install Admin Directory Path issue

[=MF=Geiss]

Mark,

I changed admin/install/install.php as you directed, and now all is as 
it should be. :-)

To close this thread out, will one with commit rights please make the 
change noted below.

Thx!

Eric

Mark R. Evans 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 

> <mailto: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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