Ethan
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Jan 14, 2007, 11:17 AM
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Re: [Ethan] Disappearing images in homepage index (signup.cgi)
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After lots of testing, I've isolated the "disappearing images" problem to this:
The signup.cgi script, upon adding a new user, causes a new index of homepages to be published and for some reason drops the extensions of the photos in the URLs. Thus the photos "disappear". However, I have "fixed" the problem by simply turning off auto publishing of that index by changing "yes" to "no" for the question: "Publish index of homepages?" under Publish Settings in the Setup Options area.
Then after the new user has been "approved", and I allow their listing to be unhidden and displayed, I can at that time manually publish the homepage index to include their home page. Manual publishing works fine of course and does not trash the photo URL.
In summary, the bug appears to be coming from the signup.cgi script as it executes, and the workaround described above is acceptable, since in my case I'll be in the user's account anyway to approve the new listing. Re-publishing the homepage index is just an additional step. 
Thanks for reading this.
Ethan (becoming more of a techie every day....scarey!)
PS I'd really like to solve the bug issue in Scott's script, the adduser.dat.cgi script, which has more features. This script will not write to the user.dat.cgi file, which results in an invalid login, as the new user is not written to file. Alas, no one responded to my forum posting on this one, and I don't have the skills to pursue it any further. If someone can help it would be great!
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