On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Administrator wrote:
the repeating error was: File does not exist: /var/www/www.insurancejournal.com/web/news
through some sort of URL re-write.
Continuing to try to trouble shoot the issue i created the news directory. The error then changed to: File does not exist: /var/www/www.insurancejournal.com/web/news/east File does not exist: /var/www/www.insurancejournal.com/web/news/west
.. continuing, some sort of PHP expansion is using URL encoding seeming to present paths --
possible causes: 1) the PHP is broken (unlikely);
2) mod_rwrite got munged, possibly through an update overwriting a config file (unlinkely if hte package manager was being used),
3) the package manager was not being used, (and a hand-compiled part was used), an upgrade of that part occured, and the hand-compiled part, or config's got overwritten (most likely)
for scenarion 3, Diagnostic tool at: http://www.owlriver.com/tips/broken-system/ which can point out broken parts -- it is non-destructive by design, but will not steer a lay person too far in fixing stuff -- it is designed to give hints to a pwerson who will use the package manager
Time to call the person who set up the site in, test the backups and see what changed; if not possible, time to get commercial support, as the diagnosis will be slow through a mailing list
-- Russ Herrold