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I’ve just “successfully” migrated my EE implementation and made sure all the control panel path changes have been made.

BUT! when I browse to the site (which comes up perfect) and click on any links…the segments appear in the URL just fine BUT the site does not go anywhere. It’s like all I can get to work is the homepage.

I’m not sure if this has anything to do with it but I don’t have the “actual” domain DNS forwarded to the server yet. I’m currently testing it all out by placing an entry in my LOCAL /etc/hosts to point mydomain.com to my new server.

Any ideas?

iDVB,

Please review the following KB article

EE KB : Main page content appears on every page

Can you share a link to the website?

Thanks for the quick reply John.
Any ideas on how to enable this on an apache server if I have root access?

I have truely tried everything I can think of:

<Directory /var/www/shared/ee>
   <Files index.php>
     AcceptPathInfo On
     SetOutputFilter PHP
     SetInputFilter PHP
   </Files>
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/shared/ee>
     AcceptPathInfo On
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www>
     AcceptPathInfo On
</Directory>

No dice…

Yup…just tried about 10 more things…getting close to hair pulling out mode. 😛

Hi, iDVB - we can’t offer support for server level setup; the KB has the information about what is needed, but you should work with your server administrator to get it enabled.

Thanks!

Sadly…I AM my server admin. 😛 Like I said, I have root access. It’s a dedicated server.
I was hoping to get at bit more detailed help similar to want I’m seem in other threads here.

I’m sure its just something small that I’m missing out on here.

I can move this up to How to for community support if you’d like, but we can’t offer official support for server administration.

I can move this up to How to for community support if you’d like, but we can’t offer official support for server administration.

Hey Lisa,
Thanks for chiming in here. However, I think I disagree with you on that this is not something you should support. I mean, ensuring that a customer can get your product up and running, I think, is under you’re umbrella. Especially, if the customer is not placing your product under any unusual situations. I’m simply trying to get it working on the server that conforms to all the standard requirements its just that EE needs non standard Apache declarations in order to work correctly. I’d simply appreciate some aid in get those set correctly so I can use your product that I paid for.

D

Here is a bit more info for anyone who can lend a hand:

I’ve ran phpinfo() to find that the “Server API” is “Apache 2.0 Handler” which I believe means its running the module and not the CGI which I also believe means I “should” be able to get path_info to work as per normal by setting “AcceptPathInfo”.

I think I have done this correctly but its not working…

Here is my “/etc/apache2/apache2.conf” (only changes to domains to mask the real ones)

below…

Actually, pasting it in here is not working….

here it is…attached

- EDIT -

Site in question: http://amvbglass.com

I’ve confirmed the following about my install:
- Dedicated Ubuntu 8 LTS Server (I’m the root admin)
- Apache 2 / PHP5
- PHP running as a module (Server API =“Apache 2.0 Handler” in phpinfo)
- PHP runs phpinfo() command fine so PHP seems to be working fine
- Proper File/Dir permissions have been set based on EE user guide
- “AcceptPathInfo” is ON (I think, please see my attached conf file)

I’ve tried running the following script and it returns a blank page. Indeed, path_info seems to not exist.

<?php 

echo $_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_NAME’];
echo $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];
echo $_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'];

?>

You seem to have “smart quotes” around the ‘SCRIPT_NAME’ variable, which could be the reason for the blank page.

Let’s make sure you have cleared the cache in the CP, also go to /system/cache and verify permissions are set correctly and there is nothing in that folder other than the index.html file.

ETA:  What is the qstr set to in your index.php file. 

-greg

Hi, iDVB - Well the fix, as far as ExpressionEngine is concerned, is to enable forced query strings which would likely get your segments seen.  But getting path_info working on your server is the part that we can not assist with.

You seem to have “smart quotes” around the ‘SCRIPT_NAME’ variable, which could be the reason for the blank page.

Let’s make sure you have cleared the cache in the CP, also go to /system/cache and verify permissions are set correctly and there is nothing in that folder other than the index.html file.

ETA:  What is the qstr set to in your index.php file. 

-greg

GREG! You are the man. Thank you SO MUCH for helping, I really have nowhere else to turn here. EE is saying ask your host and my host is saying since its a root server I need to deal with it. :( Also…I think I may have found something out…

Here’s an update of what I have tried/verified before I get to the “find”:
- Permissions on /system/cache are 777 and it contains only the index.html file (cleared)
- I’ve corrected the quotes as you mentioned with no change
- I’ve tried setting the “cgi.fix_pathinfo” var in php.ini to both 1 and 0 with no affect.
- my index.php is attached
- my php.ini is attached

Regarding “qstr” that you mentioned. I’m not sure its set to anything…the only reference to “qstr” in the index.php file is on line 95

unset($qstr);

However, if you meant to say “qtype”, it “was” set to 0 (auto). I’ve tried forcing it to 1 (path_info) with no effect.

My Find:
Now I don’t really understand what path_info is but i think its working. It’s just that in my test php page…

<?php 

$path_info = (isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'])) ? $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] : @getenv('PATH_INFO'); 
$query_str = (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) ? $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] : @getenv('QUERY_STRING');
echo $path_info;
echo "
";
echo $query_str;

?>

...I hadn’t been browsing to it and adding segments or qstrings to the URL…hence it was returning a blank page. However once I used “http://radicalblend.ca/test.php/test/test/?cool=stuff” as the URL this is what that test page wrote:

/test/test/
cool=stuff

Suceess! So, I would presume that path_info is actually working, however if it is, then what is causing EE to not go anywhere when links are clicked?

iDVB,

Well the fix, as far as ExpressionEngine is concerned, is to enable forced query strings which would likely get your segments seen.

Did you try turning on Force URL query strings?

Admin ›  System Preferences ›  Output and Debugging Preferences

BINGO!

The issue was that I needed to swap the comments in the EE index.php file from the “ORIG_PATH_INFO” to the “PATH_INFO” line:

$path_info = (isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'])) ? $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] : @getenv('PATH_INFO');
//$path_info = (isset($_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'])) ? $_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'] : @getenv('ORIG_PATH_INFO'); 
$query_str = (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) ? $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] : @getenv('QUERY_STRING');

Also, I HAD tried this before with no effect…BUT…I forgot that this implementation is also an EE multi-site so I had to change the /ee/sub_site/index.php entry as well.

Once I did that…bingo…it worked. Well ALMOST…now I have an issue where my whole site and links/urls seem to work but all the dynamic sized images are not showing.

Have a peak… 
http://www.amvbglass.com

Note to EE Admins:
You may want to take note of this issue…I’m sure I’m not going to be the last person that encounters this frustrating issue.