sNews Blog on Abyss Server x1

[Chris!]

Hi

I'm trying to get sNews running on Abyss webserver x1 ver 2.5, php ver.5.2.2 and WinXP on local machine unfortunately with out luck.

Are there anyone here there have that going ? and if could I get a copy of your setup-file ?

I try the setup as decribe in
http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14439&highlight=modrewrite
but with out luck.

[Moxxnixx]

Hey Chris. Welcome to the forums.

Here is the relevant code snippet from my abyss.conf file that should work...
http://www.moxxnixx.com/snews_rewrite.txt
Make sure you backup your conf file beforehand in case you make a mistake
and be sure to paste the above snippet in the correct section of your conf file.

After it's loaded, take a look in your console's URL Rewriting section and see
how the rules and conditions were rewritten by comparing it to the htaccess
file from snews.

[Chris!]

Hi Moxxnixx. Thanks for your quick reaction.


I made that modification in abyss.conf-file and it looks fine in Abyss console's URL Rewriting section, but sNews still not function.

Do you use that code with sNews v. 1,6 ?

My ".htaccess" file from sNews v. 1.6:
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /sNews16
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?category=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-z_]+)/([^/]+) index.php?category=$1&title=$2 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-z_]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/ index.php?category=$1&title=$2&commentspage=$3 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/ index.php?category=$1&nbsp;articlespage=$2 [L]

[Moxxnixx]

Yes. It's the latest version of snews (1.6). The rewrite rules work perfectly
with my installation.

Do you have snews as a root host or is it a sub-folder?

Please be more detailed about what is happening with your installation.
Are you getting errors? A 404? A blank page? A time out?

Can you post (or PM) a url for me to see?

[Chris!]

First page index.php is showing.

Cat folder is C:\Programmer\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\sNews16\*.*

I got sNews in this cat "http://localhost/sNews16/HERE" and when I'm try login, my browser show "http://localhost/sNews16/login/" with error 404 not found.

I don't think it's possible for you to se me site but you can try. I will post my URL to you.

[Moxxnixx]

You have it in a sub-directory. That's why my rules aren't working for you.
In your console's url rewriting section, you need to change the 5 rules.

You need to add "sNews16/" after every instance of "/".
For example...
The first rule says...
Virtual Path Regular Expression: ^/(.*)
Change it to...
Virtual Path Regular Expression: ^/sNews16/(.*)

and
Redirect to: /$1
changed to...
Redirect to: /sNews16/$1

Do this for all 5 rules.

[Chris!]

You are my "man". Now it is funktion. Thank you very much for your help and very quick reaction.

In case other want to go with this nice small and very fast setup with Abyss server x1 and sNews ver. 1.6, my code snippet from abyss.conf file in the urlrewrite section, that is working, if sNews is install in sub-folder:

abyss.conf file complet:
<urlrewrite>
<rules>
<rule>
<conditions>
<condition>
<variable>
REQUEST_FILENAME
</variable>
<operator>
isfile
</operator>
</condition>
</conditions>
<pattern>
^/sNews16/(.*)
</pattern>
<casesensitive>
yes
</casesensitive>
<subrequests>
yes
</subrequests>
<redirect>
0
</redirect>
<replacement>
/sNews16/$1
</replacement>
<qsa>
yes
</qsa>
<escape>
yes
</escape>
<nextaction>
1
</nextaction>
</rule>
<rule>
<conditions>
<condition>
<variable>
REQUEST_FILENAME
</variable>
<operator>
not_isdir
</operator>
</condition>
</conditions>
<pattern>
^/sNews16/(.*)$
</pattern>
<casesensitive>
yes
</casesensitive>
<subrequests>
yes
</subrequests>
<redirect>
0
</redirect>
<replacement>
/sNews16/index.php?category=$1
</replacement>
<qsa>
yes
</qsa>
<escape>
yes
</escape>
<nextaction>
1
</nextaction>
</rule>
<rule>
<conditions>
<condition>
<variable>
REQUEST_FILENAME
</variable>
<operator>
not_isdir
</operator>
</condition>
</conditions>
<pattern>
^/sNews16/([a-z_]+)/([^/]+)
</pattern>
<casesensitive>
yes
</casesensitive>
<subrequests>
yes
</subrequests>
<redirect>
0
</redirect>
<replacement>
/sNews16/index.php?category=$1&amp;title=$2
</replacement>
<qsa>
yes
</qsa>
<escape>
yes
</escape>
<nextaction>
1
</nextaction>
</rule>
<rule>
<conditions>
<condition>
<variable>
REQUEST_FILENAME
</variable>
<operator>
not_isdir
</operator>
</condition>
</conditions>
<pattern>
^/sNews16/([a-z_]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/
</pattern>
<casesensitive>
yes
</casesensitive>
<subrequests>
yes
</subrequests>
<redirect>
0
</redirect>
<replacement>
/sNews16/index.php?category=$1&amp;title=$2&amp;commentspage=$3
</replacement>
<qsa>
yes
</qsa>
<escape>
yes
</escape>
<nextaction>
1
</nextaction>
</rule>
<rule>
<conditions>
<condition>
<variable>
REQUEST_FILENAME
</variable>
<operator>
not_isdir
</operator>
</condition>
</conditions>
<pattern>
^/sNews16/([a-z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/
</pattern>
<casesensitive>
yes
</casesensitive>
<subrequests>
yes
</subrequests>
<redirect>
0
</redirect>
<replacement>
/sNews16/index.php?category=$1&amp;nbsp;articlespage=$2
</replacement>
<qsa>
yes
</qsa>
<escape>
yes
</escape>
<nextaction>
1
</nextaction>
</rule>
</rules>
</urlrewrite>

[Moxxnixx]

Congratulations.
I'm glad you got it working.

[mrjiles]

Anybody else got this working? I copied the url rewrite code into my abyss.conf file but it's not fully working. I can access the main page fine. All other pages have the contents of the main page, without the stylesheet. Any help?