I'm terribly sorry, due to the rain my crystal ball's a tad on the cloudy side. Could you possibly paste the contents of your htaccess as it looks like this weather's here for a while yet

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Below are contents. It also has all my users and password for the site

AuthType basic
AuthName "Secured area"
AuthUserFile /hsphere/local/home/semposki/.htmaster/.ok_user
Require valid-user
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !443
RewriteRule (.*) https://semposki.com/ [R]

#AuthType basic
#AuthName "semposki.com"
#AuthUserFile /hsphere/local/home/semposki/semposki.com/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
#AuthGroupFile /hsphere/local/home/semposki/semposki.com/_vti_pvt/service.grp
#Require valid-user
# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all

order deny,allow
deny from all

Is your $baseurl ( in conf/_basic_config.php ) set to https ( and possibly ++ your required port ) ?

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That worked. Thanks

Ok now I have a blog page, customized and everything, but there is no link or button to add a post??? Am I just stupid today or what am I missing???

It's still raining :(

Could you possibly enlighten us as to the pages you're not seeing the expected buttons on ?

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The main page of the actual blog has a link to post comments about each test post that came with the system, but there is no link or button to actually post new to the blog.

You make posts in admin, so look for a link that says "admin".

If you were using the latest version ( 2.5.6 or summat ) then there's a handy toolbar at the top of the skin when you're logged in.

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If you're really running 1.8.x, and you've just started, then I strongly advise you to start again with 2.x, it'll make upgrading to 3.x ( when it's stable ) a far simpler task ;)

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