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Can't post comments or submit stories
Authored by: john_e on Oct 09, '02 08:45:44AM

Hi. Everything went smoothly until I ran into a wall. As an Admin user I can post stories but not make comments. As a normal user I can't do anything - neither submit stories or make comments.
I've done some things suggested to me like disabling enctype="multipart/blawhatever" and also checked in php.ini to make sure that register_globals is On. It is.

Also went through permissions on all files etc and after a while set all to be owned by www:www instead of www:staff, so now I can't edit them as easily. I'll probably set the permissions back though, since it didn't help.

Strange that I can post articles as Admin but NOT make comments. A normal user can get rights to post if I include him in such a group, but normally User posting should be submitted for reviewing right. Well, nothing at ALL gets posted.
No comments for ANYONE.

This is really frustrating and I can't understand what's wrong. I've went through the config-files several times, but can't find anything wrong.

Please, could someone help?

/John



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Hmm...
Authored by: robg on Oct 09, '02 10:05:15AM
I just double-checked and my install is working fine for all users in both comments and stories. I'd recommend two routes for better help than I can provide: 1) The Geeklog IRC channel (Geeklog on OpenNet); the devs hang out there fairly regularly and are usually pretty good about helping out (just be nice with the question ;-). 2) Post a story on geeklog.sourceforge.net explaining the problem and then check back for comments. -rob.

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Fixed it
Authored by: john_e on Oct 09, '02 05:25:42PM

The problem was that I had made my own language-file, with special characters in button names. Geeklog is flawed in the way it depends on the names on buttons. Since GET/POST smashed special characters to pieces geeklog doesn't know what to do, since it compares it with the language file.

So, for everyone creating their own language-files: Don't use special characters in buttons(what is displayed in the button).

/John



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