Topic: 500 Error in Standalone

[Jopie]

Hi,
I've installed SP and that went smoothly, than i select Standalone Mode coz i want to use it as a Frontpage and have it on the frontpage adress than i altered the codes as explained in the General Custom Theme tutorial to add a forum button and give the home button the path to where the frontpage is going to be. For now i've made a test folder where the portalstandalone.php file is and so i directed it to there.

Now when i click the home button i get this message
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@...... and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Apache/1.3.41 Server at www.thesorceressandcompany.com Port 80


When i look into my forumlog i find this message:
8: Undefined variable: modSettings
File: /home/Myname/public_html/Forum/Themes/default/BoardIndex.template.php (eval?)
Line: 528

I've also tried to rename portalstandalone.php into index.php that resulted in a page like my frontpage now only full with little blocks with red x

The version SMF i use is: SMF 1.1.11
The version SP i use is: 2.3.1
My forum adress is: http://thesorceressandcompany.com/Forum/index.php

i'm totally new to the portal stuff and i don't have much understanding of the technical side so can you please keep it as simple as possible, i'm not English speaking also, i'm Dutch.

Thank you in advance.

[Nathaniel]

Edit your PortalStandalone.php file (with a code editor, ie. not notepad).

Change this code:

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$forum_dir = 'full/path/to/forum';
To this code:

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$forum_dir = '/home/Myname/public_html/Forum';
Then you should be able to rename it how you like, the important thing is that it has the correct forum directory.

[Jopie]

Thank you for helping me and i'm sorry i attached the wrong portalstandalone.php file. I did, and have done again, change the full path to the forum. I followed the instructions precicely but it gave, and gives, me the error 500 message anyway.

I editted the code in CPanel. I clicked on the file and choose edit file. Is that not a good way of doing it?

Thanks

[[SiNaN]]

Upload this file to your web site root and see if it works when you go to http://thesorceressandcompany.com/test.php address.

[Jopie]

Thank you helping SiNaN.
Just to be sure i got it right, you mean /home/public_html/ ?

[Jopie]

I just went ahead and put it in public_html/ clicked on the link in your post and it worked 

Now is the question, at least for me, how do i get it to work so the home button points to there and i get index.php when i made that page look the way i want.

I'm so glad you made it work so far, thank you   

[[SiNaN]]

Rename that file to index.php. Then go to Admin > SimplePortal > Configuration > General Settings area and set Standalone URL as http://thesorceressandcompany.com/index.php and it should change the link for the button if you added the menu button to your custom theme correctly.

[Jopie]

OMG it works  i've left it as test yet coz i'm still figuring out how to make it look the way i want. But i've changed the Standalone url to it and when i click the home button it goes wonderfully to there 

You must be a wizzard  thank you so much.

PS is there any documentation i can read about the difference in having pages instead of blocks? Or how to have blocks and articles on pages?