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lsjsandiego
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Nov 1, 2006, 1:07 PM

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Hi,

I'm having trouble figuring out how I can just have the main home page point to my domain name. I am having problems with this. So, when I type in xxxxx.com it points to a index page at my domain but none of the news I've added is displayed in the middle section. I get (an error occurred while processing this directive]and it is the original message that Interactive tools put inside for a test message???

Thanks!


ross
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Nov 2, 2006, 10:24 AM

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Hi there.

Thanks for posting and welcome to the board!

The error message you are getting there sounds to be a common one we see with include statements. Instead of trying to track down that one though, I have a better idea. Let’s just have Article Manager publish its global index file right to your root.

Here’s how to do that:

1. Log into Article Manager 2 and go to the Admin page.
2. Click on Publishing and then modify for “Global Index (the site "home page")”
3. Under Advanced Options you’ll see Publish DIR. Check off “Use Custom… “
4. Click on the Browse button and using the pop window that appears, find your webroot folder (it’s the one that has your main index.shtml file in it). You’ll probably need to click on the link in there that says “Up to higher level directory” about three times. That might be the webroot right there, or you’ll need to click into the webroot from there.
5. For Publish URL just enter the URL to your site: http://www.yoursite.com
6. Hit Save
7. Back on the Publishing page, hit the little “publish” link that appears next to the Global Index… publishing rules.

And that should be it. Article Manager will be publishing its global index right to the root of your website. Could you give this a shot and let me know how you make out?
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lsjsandiego
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Nov 2, 2006, 5:49 PM

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Ross,

Thanks so much. You are a champ! It is fixed!


klausre
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Nov 9, 2006, 1:45 PM

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Hi there.

Thanks for posting and welcome to the board!

The error message you are getting there sounds to be a common one we see with include statements. Instead of trying to track down that one though, I have a better idea. Let’s just have Article Manager publish its global index file right to your root.

Here’s how to do that:

1. Log into Article Manager 2 and go to the Admin page.
2. Click on Publishing and then modify for “Global Index (the site "home page")”
3. Under Advanced Options you’ll see Publish DIR. Check off “Use Custom… “
4. Click on the Browse button and using the pop window that appears, find your webroot folder (it’s the one that has your main index.shtml file in it). You’ll probably need to click on the link in there that says “Up to higher level directory” about three times. That might be the webroot right there, or you’ll need to click into the webroot from there.
5. For Publish URL just enter the URL to your site: http://www.yoursite.com
6. Hit Save
7. Back on the Publishing page, hit the little “publish” link that appears next to the Global Index… publishing rules.

And that should be it. Article Manager will be publishing its global index right to the root of your website. Could you give this a shot and let me know how you make out?

Hi Ross, I'm trying to do this myself, but get thsi error:

Code
Publishing: Global Index (articleList) 
Error: can't write to '/home/www/mfn/index.shtml'! Permission denied at (eval 204) line 6, <DATA> line 285.


You are saying "it’s the one that has your main index.shtml file in it". In my root I don't have any thing..?


(This post was edited by klausre on Nov 9, 2006, 1:46 PM)


Dave
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Nov 9, 2006, 2:59 PM

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That error message means either the directory doesn't exist or the directory or file doesn't have write permissions. On unix you can change the permissions to chmod 777 and that should make it writable.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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klausre
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Nov 9, 2006, 11:54 PM

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That error message means either the directory doesn't exist or the directory or file doesn't have write permissions. On unix you can change the permissions to chmod 777 and that should make it writable.


My root dir. is there! But in a normal installation AM doesn't put any file's in the root...? I onely have to dir. cgi-bin and artman2.

And do you mean I have to sett the permission for the root dir or for some dir. on the way up to the dir.?


klausre
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Nov 10, 2006, 11:43 AM

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??


Damon
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Nov 10, 2006, 1:25 PM

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Hi,

By default, new installations of Article Manager are published into the /artman/publish/ directory.
example URL: http://www.yoursite.com/artman/publish/index.shtml

If you want to publish to your site root,
example URL: http://www.yoursite.com/index.shtml
you need to make sure that your site root directory has writeable permissions.

I'm not exactly sure what your site root directory is, but I'm guessing from an earlier error message that you posted that it may be:
/home/www/mfn/

If it is /mfn/, make sure this directory has writable permissions, then re-publish.

If you are still having trouble, fill in a support request so we can get this sorted out for you.

Let me know how it goes and if you have any other questions. :)

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klausre
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Nov 10, 2006, 2:04 PM

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THANKS Damon. Now it works. I now have it in the root and all the pages are republished to .php.

Just a small question. Whit all this files sett to 777, isn't this a security problem?


ChetW
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Nov 11, 2006, 1:10 PM

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Hi Klausre,

Thanks for the follow-up, it good to hear that you got this working!

While it depends on how your server is setup, it generally isn't a security risk to have full read/write permissions on the required files on a unix based server.

All UNIX systems have a low access account called "nobody". If you web hosting company runs Perl as the "nobody" user then you pretty much have to give world read/write access to any files you want Perl to be able to read or write to.

You might want to ask your web hosting provider what user Perl runs as and if there is any other permissions beside "world read/write/exec" that would still allow Perl to read and write files.

And even if your files are world read/writable it doesn't mean anyone can write to them. A user would have to have a login account on the same server, and even then they would have to have access to your web folder before they could access your files.

Generally, web hosting servers are setup in such a way that this can't happen.

Does this answer your question? If you need help with anything else let me know and I will be happy to lend you a hand. :)
Cheers,
Chet Woodside - Product Specialist
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mackeymedia
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Dec 2, 2006, 5:50 AM

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This does not work! being unable to publish to the site to the main index page makes the system ineffective for my needs. I don't want my site to be at "/publish" this is useless for me. Following this this tutorial brings up error messages: "Publishing: Global Index (articleList)Error: can't write to '//index.shtml'! Permission denied at (eval 203) line 6, <DATA> line 285." . Is there a simple tutorial (that works)to publish article manager to the site main index page?


dbramley
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Dec 2, 2006, 6:31 AM

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In the Admin - Server Settings window change the "Publish Directory" path to the same as your "website root directory" path.

As above ensure the appropriate permissions are setup within your root folder.
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mackeymedia
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Dec 2, 2006, 8:24 AM

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I tried this and am now receiving new error messages pertainig to permissions


ChetW
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Dec 2, 2006, 9:08 AM

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Hi Dave,

Thanks for the post!

The permissions issue that you are running into is a result of how the folder permissions are set up on you web server, not to worry though many other users have Article Manager publish their root index page so I'm sure we can get something working for you. :)

If you would like to send me your ftp details I will be happy to login to your server and take a closer look at your file permissions! You can send your ftp details to:

http://support@interactivetools.com

Does this help? I look forward to hearing from you soon. :)
Cheers,
Chet Woodside - Product Specialist
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mackeymedia
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Dec 2, 2006, 11:18 AM

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Chet, I have sent the email.