SOLVED - news module links not working and template not reflecting changes

[tinabeans]

Hi there. I'm new to CMSMS and I have already combed a bunch of forum entries looking for the answer to these issues. Not finding it, I decided I'd try to post an appeal for help myself...

So here goes. I am trying to set up a blog-like interface within CMSMS.

I first tried "blogs made simple" but the dynamically generated links in each entry (read more, etc.) didn't work at all when I clicked on them, even though they definitely lead to other URLs.

Also, when I go to edit the entry templates and hit save, none of the changes show up when I refresh the page. When I go back to the entry templates and view the code, it shows the changes I made, but the new markup simply does not reflect in the actual site.

I thought at first these were issues with the Blogs Made Simple module, so I switched to using the News module instead. Except I got the exact same problems! Is this a common issue? Any clue what might go wrong?

It's a brand new installation of CMSMS... all the config should be at their defaults.

Thanks much for any advice you could offer!

[RonnyK]

Tinabeans,

the template in News that is visible in the "template"-tab, is not the template running on your site, below that textarea, is the list of templates available for your site wiith one marked as "default". That one (if your not specifically calling a template) is the one that is used. The textarea that is shown initially in the textarea is the default content available if you wnat to create a NEW template. So for changing the ones active, check below that area.

Ronnny

[tinabeans]

Ah, got it. Thank you very much!

I still haven't quite figured out why none of the links (read more, etc.) are working, though.

I just uninstalled and installed a brand new version of News Module 2.5. I am running CMSMS 1.1.x. The website is: http://uc.fas.harvard.edu/

When you click on "testtest," "more," or "News module installed" it definitely goes to a URL, but nothing happens.

I tried installing News on another website that I'm working on, and all the links work. The URL queries for both sites are the same for the default "News module installed" title link. Any ideas?

Thanks again in advance, helpful friendly CMSMS forum people... =)

[RonnyK]

Tinabeans,

what method are you using for calling NEWS, {news} or the content-type setting while adding a page.
Try with the use of {news}.

If you already did, post the calling-method here and check with the use of the html-button if no additional code is shown inside the calling-procedure.

Ronny

[tinabeans]

The calling procedure I used is:

{news number='5'}

But I changed it to just {news} and it still isn't working. =(

I recently migrated the site from another directory on the same server using a procedure I found on this forum... do you think that might have something to do with it? Perhaps there is some setting somewhere that needs to be changed? When I migrated the site, I basically cleared the cache, downloaded the site, uploaded it to a new directory, deleted the old site, and changed the config.php file by replacing all the old directory paths with the new one.

I don't remember if news worked BEFORE I migrated... actually, it might never have worked. In which case, is there some special server-side setting I need to enable/tweak in order for news to work? I recall when installing CMSMS that not all of the pre-install checks were green -- a few dealing with memory were yellow. Maybe that had something to do with it. O_o

Thanks again for all the help!

[tinabeans]

nevermind! i solved it... turns out the {content} tag was missing and that's where news loads its details...