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1 May 27, 2009 19:37    

My b2evolution Version: 2.x

:'( :'( :'( I have been reading for the past 3 hours trying to get my blog together and I am so frustrated that I could cry. I need explanation in the simplest form so that I can understand. These are my questions:
1. How can I custmize the menu (navigation) at the top of the page. I went to the admin and tried to change it and I was not able to do so.
2. How do I fix the blog so that when my domain name is typed into the browser, the blog shows up.
I must be exceptionally slow becasue I have read the FAQs and read through the FAQ posts and I can not seem to get this to work for me.
3. I can not put the link to the photoblog and the second blog.
This is my blog:
http://www.agoseng.org/b2evolution/blogs/

If is is possible to put this in a step by step process I would appreciate it, please keep in mind that I need the most elementary information possible.

2 May 29, 2009 03:34

Hello. :)

I can answer your second question. You want your blog to show up as the main page once you type your domain, right? You can do this with a [url=http://manual.b2evolution.net/Stub_file]Stub File[/url]. You should see files such as a_stub.php and blog1.php in your blog's folder already.

You want to create a file called index.php in your main directory. So it will look like http://www.agoseng.org/index.php If you have a index.html file already, you want to delete it or it will override your new index.php file.

Inside that file you need to put your code for the stub file. Once again, that can be found at the link above or in the ones already provided. If you use the ones you already have, feel free to copy the file to your folder and just rename it as index.php.

You'll have to make a few changes for it to select the correct blog.

$blog = 1; 

Make sure you change this to your blog's number. You can find that in the admin office when you log in (check under list, you'll see each blog's ID, pick the one you need).

require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/conf/_config.php';

Your file still thinks its in your blog's folder, so you'll get an error if you run the file without changing this line. Let it know where the blog really is. In your case it should be

require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/b2evolution/blogs/conf/_config.php';

I think that should do it.

I also went and changed the url to an absolute url in the back office to point to my new index.php file. I'm not sure if you have to (I have a few blogs and things are all over the place in my back office), so let me know if you have any issues with that. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong on that side if I don't get back to you in time.

Good luck. :)


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