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Forums: Recent Posts http://omeka.org/forums/ Forums: Recent Posts en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:34:15 +0000 jdchumanities on "Not displaying with Firefox!?!" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/not-displaying-with-firefox#post-753 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:55:41 +0000 jdchumanities 753@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I checked it out, here's what I got (please forgive the long code)</p> <p>View Page Source<br /> <pre><code><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Omeka Test</title>  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="description" content="" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Omeka RSS Feed" href="/omeka-0.10beta/items/browse?output=rss2" />  <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="http://localhost/omeka-0.10beta/themes/default/css\screen.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="http://localhost/omeka-0.10beta/themes/default/css\print.css" />  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/omeka-0.10beta/application/views/scripts/javascripts\prototype.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/omeka-0.10beta/application/views/scripts/javascripts\prototype-extensions.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <script src="http://localhost/omeka-0.10beta/application/views/scripts/javascripts\scriptaculous.js?load=effects,dragdrop" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/omeka-0.10beta/application/views/scripts/javascripts\search.js" charset="utf-8"></script>  </head> <body> <div id="wrap"> <div id="header"> <h1><a href="http://localhost/omeka-0.10beta" >Omeka Test</a> </h1> </div> <div id="content"> <div id="primary-nav"> <div id="search-wrap"> <h2>Search</h2> <form id="simple-search" action="/omeka-0.10beta/items/browse" method="get"> <fieldset> <input type="text" name="search" id="search" value="" class="textinput" /><input type="submit" name="submit_search" id="submit_search" value="Search" /></fieldset> </form> <a href="/omeka-0.10beta/items/advanced-search">Advanced Search</a> </div> <ul class="navigation"> <li class="nav-browse-items"><a href="/omeka-0.10beta/items">Browse Items</a></li> <li class="nav-browse-collections"><a href="/omeka-0.10beta/collections">Browse Collections</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="primary">  <div id="featured-item"> <h2>Featured Item</h2><p>You have no featured items.</p> </div>  <div id="featured-collection"> <h2>Featured Collection</h2><p>You have no featured collections.</p> </div>  <div id="recent-items"> <h2>Recently Added Items</h2> <p>No recent items available.</p> <p class="view-items-link"><a href="/omeka-0.10beta/items">View All Items</a></p> </div> <div id="recent-collections"> <h2>Recent Collections</h2> <p>No recent collections available.</p> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <p>Proudly powered by <a href="http://omeka.org">Omeka</a>.</p> <ul class="navigation"> <li class="nav-home current"><a href="/omeka-0.10beta/">Home</a></li> <li class="nav-browse-items"><a href="/omeka-0.10beta/items">Browse Items</a></li> <li class="nav-browse-collections"><a href="/omeka-0.10beta/collections">Browse Collections</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html></code></pre> <p>Then, with "Edit CSS Function" in Firefox, here's what I got</p> <pre><code>/* Edited with EditCSS */ /**** LINK-tag style sheet css%5Cscreen.css ****/ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>404 Not Found</title> </head><body> <h1>Not Found</h1> <p>The requested URL /omeka-0.10beta/themes/default/css\screen.css was not found on this server.</p> </body></html></code></pre> <p>Which is interesting. I knew about the Linux requirement, but its so odd that it will work with IE and Chrome, but not Firefox. </p> DaveLester on "Mysqli error" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/mysqli-error#post-752 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:36:23 +0000 DaveLester 752@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>You'll have to ask your server admin to install the mysqli extension for PHP5 </p> DaveLester on "Godaddy.com Hosting Not Working" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/godaddycom-hosting-not-working#post-751 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:35:42 +0000 DaveLester 751@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>My response to your other message should hopefully help you out here: <a href="http://omeka.org/forums/topic/install-works-but-links-off-home-page-dont-work" rel="nofollow">http://omeka.org/forums/topic/install-works-but-links-off-home-page-dont-work</a> </p> DaveLester on "Install works but links off home page don't work" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/install-works-but-links-off-home-page-dont-work#post-750 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:34:26 +0000 DaveLester 750@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>You'll have to edit whatever apache configuration file exists for your directory, which, depending on how GoDaddy works, may require you to have them do it for you. You said they don't use httpd.conf, but instead "use another one".. try editing that.</p> <p>AllowOverride needs to be set to All when editing that file.</p> <p>Good luck. </p> DaveLester on "Not displaying with Firefox!?!" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/not-displaying-with-firefox#post-749 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:30:34 +0000 DaveLester 749@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>One of the system requirements listed for Omeka is Linux, so I'm afraid you'll likely have trouble setting Omeka up with WAMP. </p> <p>Could you look at the source code being rendered in your Firefox browser to see if the CSS is being included within the head HTML element? </p> DaveLester on "Modifiable user priveleges?" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/modifiable-user-priveleges#post-748 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:25:26 +0000 DaveLester 748@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>We have no immediate plans to develop this added feature, but if there's enough interest we can consider adding it to the core. At this point, it'd be possible to build a plugin that could administrate the permissions of users beyond Omeka's presets. </p> <p>Anyone interested should consider joining the Developer Mailing List to discuss this further. <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/omeka-dev" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/omeka-dev</a> </p> jdchumanities on "Not displaying with Firefox!?!" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/not-displaying-with-firefox#post-747 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:52:50 +0000 jdchumanities 747@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>For some reason, my new Omeka installation won't show up properly when using Firefox. It's like its not reading the CSS at all. The truly crazy thing is that it works fine with IE. I am running my installation on a WAMP local server, is that part of the problem? </p> veehikle on "Install works but links off home page don't work" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/install-works-but-links-off-home-page-dont-work#post-746 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:13:12 +0000 veehikle 746@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I've come back to try again using the upgrade. Install went fine but I cannot access admin panel.<br /> Mod_rewrite is installed. </p> <p>This is on a godaddy.com shared hosting account where you do not have access to modify the conf files (they do not use httpd.conf - they use another one). </p> <p>Has anyone had a problem installing and using this package on a shared host?</p> <p>What next? </p> veehikle on "Godaddy.com Hosting Not Working" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/godaddycom-hosting-not-working#post-745 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:09:41 +0000 veehikle 745@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I have installed on a shared host account from Godaddy.com.</p> <p>Cannot access the admin page on the install process to create users. Install works. But you cannot change certain Apache settings at the admin level.</p> <p>Has anyone tested or have an active omeka site running on a shared hosting service from Godaddy.com </p> VFHwebdev on "Mysqli error" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/mysqli-error#post-744 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:14:07 +0000 VFHwebdev 744@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I'd like to test out Omeka for some possible future projects. When I install it, I get the following message:<br /> The Mysqli extension is required for this adapter but the extension is not loaded</p> <p>I'm not a server admin, so I assume I need to take this up with the folks that administer my web server. Can you tell me specifically what I need to ask them to do? </p> ebellempire on "Modifiable user priveleges?" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/modifiable-user-priveleges#post-743 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:12:20 +0000 ebellempire 743@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>In future releases, will there be an option to manually grant certain rights to certain users without upgrading their user role? For our project, we are working with student researchers, and have given them "Contributor" status, which is well-suited in every way except that they are unable to add their materials to a collection. This means the Admin or Super users have to go in and add them to the collections manually.</p> <p>Anyway, that's on my wishlist.</p> <p>Thanks for all the great work! Omeka is getting better and better with each release. </p> ebellempire on "admin problem (non-root installation)" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/admin-problem-non-root-installation#post-742 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:29:53 +0000 ebellempire 742@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Nevermind. </p> <p>Apparently, it works just fine. </p> <p>I was unaware of the need for a "/" at the end of admin, which automatically renders the "admin/users/login" string. </p> DaveLester on "Old version working, new version not" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/old-version-working-new-version-not#post-741 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:28:18 +0000 DaveLester 741@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>It appears Omeka is looking for the "summer-theme-0.9.0" theme that you previously installed with 0.9. Even if you downloaded the updated version, the folder name has changed so you'll need to edit this info.</p> <p>Try logging into the admin panel and changing your theme to one that's prepackaged with 0.10. That should do the trick -- let us know how it works out. </p> ebellempire on "admin problem (non-root installation)" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/admin-problem-non-root-installation#post-740 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:57:09 +0000 ebellempire 740@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>I installed Omeka in a non-root directory named "exhibits". I have a WordPress installation in the root. Although I did see the recommendation against editing the .htaccess files, I followed the advice of a poster on this forum and changed my base in both files (exhibits/.htaccess and exhibits/admin/.htaccess) using the RewriteBase command. Omeka seems to be functioning and displaying fine from a user perspective, but I cannot access the admin panel. When I try, it searches the WordPress installation for a page with the name "exhibits/admin."</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Erin B. </p> MarjorieMcLellan on "Old version working, new version not" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/old-version-working-new-version-not#post-739 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:56:30 +0000 MarjorieMcLellan 739@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>We've gone through the upgrade steps for 0.10beta. At first, when we went to the site, we got a message saying we needed to install Omeka. Clicking the link took us to a page that said we could delete the install directory. But there was not way to continue. We either got one of those two pages or the other.</p> <p>After deleting the install directory, we then just got the need-to-install page, nothing else.</p> <p>So I replaced the install directory and now we get the need to install page, followed by a page with a message saying that "Apache's mod_rewrite extension must be enabled."</p> <p>Well, when we restore all our old Omeka files, everything works fine under the old version. So the server environment must be OK. Can't figure this out. Here is an installation of the new version:</p> <p><a href="http://daytonstories.org/omeka2" rel="nofollow">http://daytonstories.org/omeka2</a></p> <p>And here is the old version, on the same server, working fine:</p> <p><a href="http://daytonstories.org/omeka" rel="nofollow">http://daytonstories.org/omeka</a></p> <p>These are both on Dreamhost.</p> <p>Any ideas? </p> jsafley on "403 when accessing About page" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/403-when-accessing-about-page#post-738 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:27:56 +0000 jsafley 738@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi Notis,</p> <p>There was a bug in the SimplePages plugin that gave a 403 page when someone visits a page while not logged in. We fixed this in the newest update of the plugin. You can download it via Subversion:</p> <p>$ svn co <a href="https://omeka.org/svn/plugins/SimplePages/tags/0.10.x-0.2.1/" rel="nofollow">https://omeka.org/svn/plugins/SimplePages/tags/0.10.x-0.2.1/</a> /path/to/plugin/directory/SimplePages</p> <p>Otherwise, you'll have to wait until the stable version of Omeka is released.</p> <p>Jim Safley </p> notis.toufexis on "403 when accessing About page" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/403-when-accessing-about-page#post-737 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:40:59 +0000 notis.toufexis 737@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi there</p> <p>I 've installed the "Simple Pages" plugin in the latest Omeka distribution. I do get a 403 error when accessing the "About" page. Any ideas?<br /> Notis </p> DaveLester on "sandbox" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/sandbox#post-736 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:47:39 +0000 DaveLester 736@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Every night we run a script that scrubs the Omeka sandbox clean for future users to test, and it was accidentally deactivating the demo user.</p> <p>Thanks for pointing this out -- it's fixed now. </p> mjcpl on "sandbox" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/sandbox#post-735 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:01:21 +0000 mjcpl 735@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>hmmm... I'm still having problems. Here's the new error...</p> <p>"Error: Username could not be found." </p> arkirkland on "install error - mysqld.sock" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/install-error-mysqldsock#post-734 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:12:04 +0000 arkirkland 734@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>An update:</p> <p>I did hear back from my web hosting provider, and all is resolved! It was in fact an issue with my database configuration in the db.ini file. I did not have the correct host name, but now it's all set, and I'm up and running. </p> <p>Thanks! </p> SheilaBrennan on "sandbox" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/sandbox#post-733 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:37:00 +0000 SheilaBrennan 733@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>It is up and working now, you may sign in and play. </p> SheilaBrennan on "sandbox" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/sandbox#post-732 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:06:28 +0000 SheilaBrennan 732@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Yes, there is a slight glitch in the users because of some security precautions we put in place. Hang in there, and we'll get it activated soon. </p> <p>Thanks for your patience.<br /> Sheila </p> arkirkland on "sandbox" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/sandbox#post-731 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:09:07 +0000 arkirkland 731@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>When I try to login to play around in the sandbox, with the username "demo" and password "sandbox," it tells me it's an invalid password.</p> <p>Help? </p> arkirkland on "install error - mysqld.sock" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/install-error-mysqldsock#post-730 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:00:42 +0000 arkirkland 730@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I'm very excited to try out Omeka, and I've been working on installing it on my personal webpage so I can experiment before trying to use it for the historic costume collection at Vassar College. </p> <p>I've been consulting with my webhosting service to get everything running. My first problem was solved by upgading my php to 5.2.4, which they helped me with. So, I know I'm getting closer, but now when I try to go to my URL to finish the installation, I'm getting the message: "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)" I saw another post about installing on a Mac which mentioned having to create a link to find the mysql.sock file, but that's not quite the same case as mine, so I'm not sure if that's what I have to do - and if it is, I don't know how to do it. </p> <p>Any advice? I'm waiting to hear from my hosting provider too, but this seems like it might be more omeka-specific than server-specific, so I figured it couldn't hurt to post here.</p> <p>Thanks! </p> DaveLester on "detail in .10b install" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/detail-in-10b-install#post-729 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:03:49 +0000 DaveLester 729@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I'm a little stumped on this one. Does anyone else have any ideas? Nothing immediately popped out in the code that would cause this. </p> DaveLester on "php version for .10 install" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/php-version-for-10-install#post-728 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:01:41 +0000 DaveLester 728@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Unfortunately, there is no good work around, and we're unable to support PHP versions below 5.2. Previous attempts of users to run Omeka on earlier versions proved to be problematic, with several bugs arising that are limitations we can't change.</p> <p>The codex has some helpful links for upgrading your system that may be of use: <a href="http://omeka.org/codex/Preparing_to_Install" rel="nofollow">http://omeka.org/codex/Preparing_to_Install</a> </p> kkay on ".10b admin CSS bugs and suggestions" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/10b-admin-css-bugs-and-suggestions#post-727 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:01:56 +0000 kkay 727@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I installed .10 this morning and all went well. I'm very excited for the development you guys have been doing. I'm a total Omeka proselytizer. </p> <p>Here are a couple of minor things I noted when poking around on my install.</p> <p>IE7: when editing the Dublin Core metadata, the element description under text boxes displays one word per line. This ends up making that page super long. Amazingly, this page looks fine in IE6</p> <p>FF/IE: on advanced search page the + button to add search fields does not work</p> <p>Suggestions:<br /> -add TinyMCE to SimplePages. Currently must use html or the text does not display between p tags.<br /> -enlarge the DC subject box. I had been listing subjects as a string separated by semicolons. Is best practice to use the Add input box for each individual subject term?<br /> -On the Add Exhibit page, increase the size of the Exhibit Title text box. Awkward to enter titles of even just a few words. (The length of text boxes under Settings is a good length.)<br /> -On the Edit Page for exhibits, add a note in the blue items box that you need to grab the green crosshair to select and stick an image. Users had trouble with just grabbing the thumbnail in .9 version as well. </p> Hillel Arnold on "OKAPI installation" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/okapi-installation#post-726 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:27:37 +0000 Hillel Arnold 726@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for the info. That did the trick. </p> SheilaBrennan on "Omeka / Ubuntu / VMWare (Win or Mac)" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/omeka-ubuntu-vmware-win-or-mac#post-725 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:59:23 +0000 SheilaBrennan 725@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>This is fantastic, Bruce. Thanks so much for updating and sharing it with everyone. </p> <p>Your Omeka-powered exhibits are looking fantastic too!</p> <p>Sheila </p> kellyms on "php version for .10 install" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/php-version-for-10-install#post-724 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:02:07 +0000 kellyms 724@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Is it possible to run the .10b version of Omeka with PHP 5.1.6? We are using Centos so that is the PHP version we have. </p> <p>For earlier version the posting <a href="http://omeka.org/forums/topic/php-version-requirement#post-502" rel="nofollow">http://omeka.org/forums/topic/php-version-requirement#post-502</a> mentions you can modify the verify.php file in the install directory of the earlier version. I don't see that file in the new version. Is there a similar work around?</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Marj </p> kkay on "detail in .10b install" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/detail-in-10b-install#post-723 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:22:42 +0000 kkay 723@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I successfully installed the new .10b (sandbox looks very cool). But when you get to the "Installation has finished" success page, the link for "... or go directly to the <strong>admin</strong> panel" is broken. It goes to <a href="http://admin/" rel="nofollow">http://admin/</a></p> <p>Link to public site is correct. </p> DaveLester on "OKAPI installation" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/okapi-installation#post-722 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:31:56 +0000 DaveLester 722@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>The OKAPI package was released prior to the newest version of Omeka, 0.10. The db.ini file in 0.9.2 (OKAPI's version) was located in the application/config/ folder. We moved it in 0.10 to make it more accessible. </p> brucefulton on "Omeka / Ubuntu / VMWare (Win or Mac)" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/omeka-ubuntu-vmware-win-or-mac#post-721 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:09:13 +0000 brucefulton 721@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>The installation document at <a href="http://digin.arizona.edu/lectures/omeka.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://digin.arizona.edu/lectures/omeka.pdf</a> has been updated to reflect the new version and to harmonize the installation parameters with other projects we are developing. This document explains how to configure Omeka in a VMWare virtual machine from scratch using VMWare Workstation, Server or Fusion for the Mac. </p> <p>I have also posted a fully-configured virtual machine loaded with the 0.10beta software at <a href="http://digin.arizona.edu/lectures/omeka10demo.zip" rel="nofollow">http://digin.arizona.edu/lectures/omeka10demo.zip</a> that is compatible with VMWare Workstation (30day eval available), Server (free), Player (free), ESX (free, sort of) and Fusion for the Mac (30day eval available). </p> <p>This is a large file (1.2GB+) so expect from one to several hours download time depending on your connection. </p> <p>The readme for the fully configured VM may be previewed at <a href="http://digin.arizona.edu/lectures/omeka10bdemoreadme.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://digin.arizona.edu/lectures/omeka10bdemoreadme.pdf</a> for further information.</p> <p>If you have questions or problems, let me know. </p> <p>Bruce Fulton, digital projects librarian<br /> UA School of Information Resources and Library Science<br /> <a href="mailto:bfulton@email.arizona.edu">bfulton@email.arizona.edu</a> </p> Hillel Arnold on "OKAPI installation" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/okapi-installation#post-720 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:26:42 +0000 Hillel Arnold 720@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>So, I managed to download the OKAPI package (thanks, Jeremy) but am having some difficulty getting it up and running. After uploading the files and then trying to run the install, I'm getting an error message which says "Your Omeka database configuration file has not been set up properly. Please edit the configuration and reload this page."<br /> I looked in the root directory and there is no db.ini file. Is this the culprit?<br /> I tried copying the file from the 0.10 release, but no luck. </p> DaveLester on "508 Compliant?" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/508-compliant#post-719 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:33:10 +0000 DaveLester 719@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Yes, Omeka sites are 508 compliant. </p>