Lesson One - RTFM - Read The Fabulous Manual
My Bad!
I’ve never been that great a completer finisher, more an initiator. I think I could avoid the issues if I had just completed the installation steps. I just jumped to the Admin tab followed by the Diagnostics and got the following displayed in red.
.htaccess file is missing ?
/var/www/textpattern/textpattern/setup/ still exists ?
Site URL preference might be incorrect: admin.ellfin.vm.bytemark.co.uk ?
Clean URL test failed. ?With all my excitement I simply forgot to continue the installation from Section 3 onwards. Once I did there were still some issues and here is what I did to sort them out and what you will need to do as well.
- Copied .htaccess from the Textpattern root into both my public and admin directories. I also copied it into the site1 directory as I will use that as a template in the future.
cp .htaccess sites/callenb.org/public
cp .htaccess sites/callenb.org/admin- Went into Advanced preferences and set the File and Temporary path to point within my Multi-Site and not the directories I’d just deleted from the Textpattern root.
I’m now left with two errors but I think they are because the Diagnostics isn’t Multi-Site aware and I’m not getting any unexpected errors. The Welcome to your site article is not written for Multi-Site and so returns 404 – Page Not Found Errors. I’ve hidden it to get it out of the way.
The remaining two “errors” I am currently happy to live with are:
Missing files:/var/www/textpattern/textpattern/../index.php ?
Site URL preference might be incorrect: admin.ellfin.vm.bytemark.co.uk ?The first is missing because it is no longer where diagnostics is looking for it. The second one is because my site url is “www.callenb.org”, but the administration url is admin.callenb.org. The diagnostics are reporting the fact that the url stored in the database (www.callenb.org) is different to the url where diagnostics is (admin.callenb.org). Small insignificant issues.