Tips for newbies breaking teeth...

[kcorey]

Okay, I'm a bonehead.

Better yet, I should say a stressed-out, no-time-to-read-docs-well, kinda bonehead.

I'd run into two troubles that caused me no end of trouble:
1) CMSMailer failed silently.  Couldn't see a problem, got no error, but the response screen consistently said "error sending message".
2) MovedPages didn't seem to be working at all.

The tips are:

First off, turn on debugging output in the config.php, line 84.  Set it to 'true' and you'll see the SQL queries that are run, and a basic breadcrumb functionality.  Will likely help with problems like #1.

Actually, in my case, I randomly started trying anything I could think of to cause any change in behavior.  Finally, I got around to changing the method of sending emails from 'SMTP' to 'mail', and it just worked after that.

Secondly, MAKE SURE that you copy the htaccess.txt in the docs directory to .htaccess in the root directory of the CMSms installation.  That was the trick that made MovedPages (and custom 404 error pages) actually work for me as advertised.  Tre cool, now that they are working!

Hope this helps someone new like me!

-Ken

[calguy1000]

Unfortunately, PHPMailer, the class that CMSMailer is wrapped around doesn't give  many error messages.  There isn't much we can do about it.

[Pierre M.]

Hello Ken,

you have no time to read the documentation, but you have time to share tips/feedback for newbies in the forum. Feel free to share more on the wiki, as all forum users have write access to it.
Have fun with CMSms !

Pierre M.