Network "Solutions" rejiggers PHP, screws up Pixelpost

[ZachMatthews]

Hey guys -

Network "Solutions," the internet's most unresponsive provider, has just re-jiggered its PHP servers, which is causing trouble for Pixelpost users like me.

Basically Network Solutions has a very long directory tree terminating in /htdocs, which is your pretend "root" directory. Pixelpost never quite liked that system and the auto-detect tree form returned a bunch of jibberish. I worked around it, but I don't remember exactly what I told Pixelpost to treat as the directory.

Well, now Network Solutions has changed how it masks its tree above /htdocs, and as a result Pixelpost's db_host value is wrong (i.e. it's forgotten where the tree starts). Unforunately, I can't even access my Admin pages to change it there - I am seeking a direct workaround.

So here's my question:

1) How do you edit the "hard copy" of the information you give Pixelpost in the Admin section, specifically relating to where to search for the directory tree? I can't find this information anywhere in my files. Is it in the Language directory? Somewhere in an index.php file?

2) Barring that, how do I "trick" the index.php script (which still partly works) into letting me into the Admin section when it is searching for the files in the wrong spot?

For an example of what is going wrong, go here and try to click a thumbnail:

http://www.itinerantangler.com/photo...owse&pagenum=1

I will post back as I get information.

Zach

[Dennis+]

Zach, do you have access to PHPMyAdmin?

[ZachMatthews]

I don't think I do, schonhose. What does it do?

Zach

[ZachMatthews]

I take it back, I do have access to the Database. Thanks to those who helped both here and by IM. I will post when I have fixed it.

Zach

[ZachMatthews]

Well, I was able to edit the siteurl and imagepath settings in my MySQL database directly and they made no difference. Evidently there is a fundamental disagreement somewhere in the PHP script. Network Solutions is looking at it and have an alleged PHP expert on the team.

This is definitely going to be a bug, though. I don't have the newest version of Pixelpost - would it avoid this? I don't know enough about the update to PHP these guys pulled on me to give the version number. Currently my main index.php works fine but my archive (index.php?x=browse) and my admin pages are not working.

Zach

[ZachMatthews]

Hey Moderators -

I would appreciate it if this thread could be replaced in the Pixelpost Help section; I am talking about an older version and I now realize this is for 1.5 only. I have 1.1.4. However, this is still something to look for in the new version for Network Solutions users.

Edit: Thank you!

[blinking8s+]

thread moved

you should also look into upgrading pixelpost, v1.1.4 was a loooong time ago and it has may security holes in it

[ZachMatthews]

It's hard to stay with all the upgrades when you've customized your system as far as I have, but I recognize the need. Would version 1.5 have this issue with Network Solutions.

Zach

[jaywilliams+]

You can always download it and upload it to a different folder and find out.

[blinking8s+]

I cant say, you could try a clean install of v1.5 to test and see how it does

v1.6 is releasing soon, so i wouldn't mod 1.5 out with 1.6 about to release

what is your image path and site url in the db?