CMSMadeSimple and hostnames

naxale · Post by **naxale** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:16 am

Hello,

I've got some trouble in configuring my site...

I've installed CMSMadeSimple on a machine on my LAN (192.168.1.55).
Everything has gone OK.
I can access the pages through http://192.168.1.55

Then I configured port forwarding on my firewall. And when I try to reach http://mysite.com (from a machine on the web outside the LAN). It fails.

Loading 192.168.1.55...
And nothing happens.

I changed in config.php every 192.168.1.55 by mysite.com
But nothing changes...

Do you have an idea? Maybe the solution is somwhere else? Apache server?

Thanks for your help!

naxale · Post by **naxale** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:22 am

In fact, it works but it is very very slow!
And the dynamic menus {cms_module module='phplayers'} don't seems to work properly.

Do I miss something?

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:24 am

You probably have to set the hostname in your apache config. I believe that it is commented out by default and makes apache default to the machine's IP.

naxale · Post by **naxale** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:53 am

It was already set to the correct value.
For example I tried to access directly to a simple html page (the on eby default in Apache) it worked quickly and perfectly.

Well, there is a problem with my template I think. Because when I use the one by default it's quick BUT the dynamic menu don't work. Only the first level appears! Maybe a right access to correct???

Tanks

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:16 am

I don't think so... It should be loading the phplayers menu based on values in config.php.

Oh...

Make sure you clear the cache with the button in system preferences. The html generated to load the javascript files for the dynamic menu is cached after the first look and doesn't take changes to config.php into account when it decides if the cache data is old or not.

naxale · Post by **naxale** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:19 pm

wishy wrote: Make sure you clear the cache with the button in system preferences. The html generated to load the javascript files for the dynamic menu is cached after the first look and doesn't take changes to config.php into account when it decides if the cache data is old or not.

I did it, but nothing change...

For example you can test it here :
http://galactica.mine.nu:35235/index.php

It's the default CMS page...

Hope this helps!

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:50 pm

Yup, that did. Put the port number in config.php also. It thinks the javascript is at: http://www.galactica.mine.nu/modules/PH ... tection.js

naxale · Post by **naxale** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:58 pm

That's it!

Yeepeee!!! Great advice, this "special" TCP/IP port is only for testing...
I'll correct that later!

Thank you very very much!

The speed problem is certainly due to my "hugly" coded template. :-/

There's still a lot of things to improve on my side

Thank you very much wishy. I'm looking for an easy way to improve the actual site (static+css) : CMS is the better tool I've ever tested! Great job!

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