URL to your eFiction: http://thewriterscoffeeshop.com/library
Version of eFiction: 3.5.2
Have you bridged eFiction, if so with what?: No
Version of PHP: can be found out from your host 5.1.6
Version of MySQL: can be found out from your host 5.0.77
Have you searched for your problem: Yes
If so, what terms did you try: Story text does not appear
State the nature of your problem: We recently upgraded to a dedicated server. Once everything was said and done, the story text for new chapters to established stories would not appear. New stories that were started after the new server went live have their story text. The previous solutions I found are not working for us. I've double checked and the file name is stories and it is CHMOD'd to 777. We are not running in Safe Mode. Are there any other suggestions to help fix this problem with established stories?
Do you have a test account for us? penname Admin Tester password admin69
What are the folders within the stories folder CHMODed to? When we recently switched hosts, we had some legacy folders that were CHMODed to 755, which wouldn't work on the new server. (Note that I think since at least the beginning of version 3 of eFic, those folders have been created at 777 anyway. Our site has existed since v1, so somewhere along the line we had folders at 755.)
Thanks for replying. Each folder within the stories directory was CHMOD'd to 755. I'm changing now and will let you know how it goes.
That worked! Thanks so much for your help 🙂
I wanted to double-check that I hadn't told you something crazy (it's been a while since I dealt with this), and so I found the part of stories.php that is relevant to the creation of new folders.
if( !file_exists("".STORIESPATH."/$uid/" ) )
{
mkdir("".STORIESPATH."/$uid/", 0755);
chmod("".STORIESPATH."/$uid/", 0777);
}
What I get from this is that if a user posts for the first time, their uid-numbered folder in your stories folder should be CHMODed to 777 by the script. It's kind of weird that you didn't have any at all that were at 777 (we had some that were 777 and some that were 755), so keep an eye on that.
We have consolidated our websites to one site with subdirectories for our different sites. In doing so we moved our efiction from one url to another. We have a test site that I tested every function out and everything seemed fine so we moved our site. Unfortunately I didn't think to test out creating a new account and adding a new story. A new member is added just fine but their story text won't save to their UID story folder. Existing UID story folders update new chapters and add new stories just fine. Is there a setting I missed adjusting when we moved to a new url?
The new folders that are created are chmodded to 777.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
edited info...
Folders are being created in our stories directory for the new authors. They are chmodded to 777. The chapter text is just not saving to their newly created folders.
I had the same problem. I think it had to do with the permissions level of the .txt files.
I noticed through my FTP program that the Owner/Group was different on the new Author Files. I created a test account and a test story. The story of course did not save, but the author file was created with that different Owner/Group. I deleted that file and recreated it with the proper chmod and it saved the story text. Is that a setting within one of my eFiction files that I can change or do I need to talk with my webhost about server settings?
I'm not remembering what I did. Pretty sure I didn't mod eFiction, and I did talk to my host about it, so I think it was something on their end.
I know exactly what the problem is now. Unfortunately my new problem is getting our webhost to understand what I'm needing. It's frustrating speaking with someone who doesn't know the program and understand the way it works.
Lyndsie, thanks so much for listening and basically holding my hand while I worked through this problem. I'll post and let you know if I can ever get the webhost to understand and fix my problem.
