[geeklog-devel] Fresh install Admin Directory Path issue

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

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Oliver

=MF=Geiss wrote:

> 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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