Topic: Can't Get Standalone to Work

[adamspt2]

I've installed SMF RC1 and just now added SimplePortal 2.2.

My end goal is for the 'site' to be at
www.ukhoopsfans.com

The forums will be at
www.ukhoopsfans.com/forums

I took the standalone file, renamed it portal.php, added in the full path to the SSI.php (which is in my forums subdirectory), uploaded portal.php to the root, turned on Standalone, entered the full path for the portal.php and  when I go to www.ukhoopsfans.com I get the forums page. When I go to www.ukhoopsfans.com/forums, I also get the forums page.

If I change the mode to "FrontPage" I get the portal page at both locations.

I'm clearly not doing something correct. Any suggestions?

[Nathaniel]

Your standalone portal location is at: http://www.ukhoopsfans.com/portal.php

As far as I can see you have a file at 'http://www.ukhoopsfans.com/index.php' that is showing your main website, not your forum.

If you want 'http://www.ukhoopsfans.com' to show SimplePortal, then remove the current 'index.php' file (you could also rename it) and rename your 'portal.php' file to 'index.php'. You will then need to put 'http://www.ukhoopsfans.com' into the 'Standalone URL' field.

[adamspt2]

Okay, I have it set to Standalone.

I have the path set to
http://www.ukhoopsfans.com

I've renamed the standalone file index.php

Now, www.ukhoopsfans.com seems to show the boards.

www.ukhoopsfans.com/forums seems to show the same thing. I would like for www.ukhoopsfans.com to show the portal. What have I gotten wrong?

Also, at the bottom of the page at www.ukhoopsfans.com I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: sportal_init() in /home/ukhoop2/public_html/index.php on line 42

[[SiNaN]]

Did you install the mod manually? Would you make sure that SSI.php edits that the package makes are done correctly?

[adamspt2]

SMF did the install through 'add package'. I did not do anything manually except add the ssi.php path to the standalone file. I entered that information as http://www.ukhoopsfans.com/forums/ which is where my ssi.php resides.

I'm not sure what you are referencing when you say the 'ssi.php edits that the package makes'. Are there entries in a file I need to check?

[[SiNaN]]

I entered that information as http://www.ukhoopsfans.com/forums/ which is where my ssi.php resides.

It should be path, not the URL. Something like This should work for you:

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require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/forum/SSI.php');

[adamspt2]

You rock. That did it.

Why is it that I get the best support from free open source folk? SMF and now SimplePortal both have excellent forums with people willing to help. It's a nice change.

BTW, I'm sure as I get more into working on things I'll have many more questions. My first two..

the menu across the top of this site...is that done by the portal or coded separately?

I've figured out how to add an article, but does SP allow me to create stand alone pages? like the About page here for instance?

[Nathaniel]

1) the menu across the top of this site...is that done by the portal or coded separately?

2) I've figured out how to add an article, but does SP allow me to create stand alone pages? like the About page here for instance?

1) The menu at the top of our site, or your site, is done by SMF. We have a custom theme, so it displays its menu differently to the other themes. We have also made some custom edits so that it has the correct navigation.

If you want to add new menu buttons/tabs to your site:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=229686.msg1476576#msg1476576

If you want to change your menu so that you can have dropdown links:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1508

2) At the moment SP doesn't allow you to do that. Although you could use any of the mods below, along with the 'Custom Display Options' for each block (the 'Advanced Options' checkbox needs to be ticked) that you want to show on those pages.

Note that each of these mods does a slightly different thing, but they all add the feature you want.
Custom Pages
Site Integration Mod
Custom Action Mod
Bakers Dozen Pages
Pages Mod

It is my opinion that the last two are redundant, but they still might be useful.

Hopefully the 2nd feature will be added to SimplePortal sometime in the future.