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My Joomla site has gone text only

mikiec
Dabbler
Posts: 10
Registered: ‎30-10-2008

My Joomla site has gone text only

Hi,
I've been trying to get my site (on joomla 1.0.15) to have Search Engine Friendly URLS switched on, but having followed all the instructions and advice, I'm having no luck with it. 
Anyway, after over an hour of unsuccessful fiddling with the .htaccess file, I decided to take a break from it and switched SEF URLs off and made sure that everything seemed to be working ok.
I then came back about 2 hrs later (and on a different PC) to find that the site was all in text and the CSS formatting seemed to be screwed.
I thought that maybe I'd screwed up my .htaccess so I tried various different previous working versions, all with no effect.  I've now tried to view the site on the PC that it was originally working on and it's text-only on there as well.  The only graphics are from the google ads.
What have I done?  Help please!!!!
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mikiec
Dabbler
Posts: 10
Registered: ‎30-10-2008

Re: My Joomla site has gone text only

OK, after checking the site in IE (I normally use Firefox), it appears that the CSS is working to an extent and the problem seems to be to do with image links that aren't working and the text formatting.
I've just gone into media manager and managed to get the url of a file and typed it into the address bar of firefox and it didn't find it.  I'm thinking I must have changed something in .htaccess to stop it working.  Sad
mikiec
Dabbler
Posts: 10
Registered: ‎30-10-2008

Re: My Joomla site has gone text only

I've been looking at what has been changed and the file configuration.php was changed yesterday.
The only thing in there which looks like it might be wrong is
$mosConfig_absolute_path = '/share/storage/03/mf/[myusername]/joomla';
Is that correct?
mikiec
Dabbler
Posts: 10
Registered: ‎30-10-2008

Re: My Joomla site has gone text only

My .htaccess in the root directory is:-
Quote
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /joomla
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.[mywebsite].com$ [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) /joomla/$1

My joomla site is located in the /joomla/ directory.
Without the last line, I can't access the site.
The 3rd line doesn't seem to make any difference if it's commented or not.
If I take out the .htaccess file, I can't access anything.
If I type in the url http://ccgi.[myusername].plus.com/joomla/, I have the same issue with no graphics.
The missing images have urls like http://www.[mywebsite].com/images/stories/nascar/nascarsprintcuplogo.jpg
I'm still getting nowhere with this. Sad
mikiec
Dabbler
Posts: 10
Registered: ‎30-10-2008

Re: My Joomla site has gone text only

I remembered there was a reason why I needed a .htaccess file and I found it in this thread http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,46292.0.html
It's down to me having joomla in a sub-directory.
So, I altered my .htaccess file as per the thread and still having the same problem.  Think I'll raise a ticket.
Pod
Grafter
Posts: 30
Registered: ‎26-04-2008

Re: My Joomla site has gone text only

Mike,
Maybe too late, but have you checked the setup with phpinfo() call?
ie create a file.php containing just this line:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
then use a browser to invoke it, http://www.yoursite.plus.com/file.php
That will at least check things are as you expect, sorry if it's a bit late  Smiley
mikiec
Dabbler
Posts: 10
Registered: ‎30-10-2008

Re: My Joomla site has gone text only

I managed a workaround for the time being which is to change the site url (I can't remember the exact name of it) in configuration.php from www.mydomain.com to ccgi.myusername.plus.com, which seems to work ok but it's now showing the ccgi.myusername.... etc in the address bar.
Ant ideas? 
Pod, thanks for your advice, I'll try it a bit later when I've got some time and let you know how it goes.
Cheers
mikiec
Dabbler
Posts: 10
Registered: ‎30-10-2008

Re: My Joomla site has gone text only

Just to confirm,  I changed
$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://www.mydomain.com';
to
$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://ccgi.mfconnor.plus.com/joomla/';
and that works although the address ccgi.mfconnor.plus..etc now appears in the address bar for any page I go to on my web site.
Pod, I did what you said, but being a PHP/Joomla noob, I'm not sure what I should be looking for to tell me if anything's wrong.
Sad


Word_Warrior
Grafter
Posts: 503
Registered: ‎30-07-2007

Re: My Joomla site has gone text only

I seem to recall that it is to do with the path in the config file 'live site' as you say. If you move to the PAYH plesk platform you shouldn't need to fiddle with the config file and the added bonus is that you get php5 too not the defunct php4