News items not displayed on home page or RSS

[bmp500]

Hello - I'm new to the script, so first, thanks for a great project!

My installation looks good except for two issues.

1. I've created a couple of news items as administrator. I can see the articles in the admin panel, but they do no show up on the home page for users, or in the news rss feed. On the home page I see the news category heading and the "No news is good news"

My admin configuration setting allow 5 news articles for the home page. Do I need a cron job or some other setting to see them?

2. The rewrite feature for nice urls does not work: I get page not found errors. I am on an Apache server (shared account at bluehost) and I have at least one other program on that account successfully using rewrite for urls. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

[Thorsten]

Hi,

1. I've created a couple of news items as administrator. I can see the articles in the admin panel, but they do no show up on the home page for users, or in the news rss feed. On the home page I see the news category heading and the "No news is good news"

did you activate the news?

My admin configuration setting allow 5 news articles for the home page. Do I need a cron job or some other setting to see them?

no.

2. The rewrite feature for nice urls does not work: I get page not found errors. I am on an Apache server (shared account at bluehost) and I have at least one other program on that account successfully using rewrite for urls. Any suggestions?

did you rename the _.htaccess file to .htaccess like described in the documentation?

bye
Thorsten

[bmp500]

Thank you for your prompt reply!

I did not notice that I had to activate each news item separately.

For the rewrite, I had to alter the RewriteBase in the .htaccess file to match my installation.

All looks good now.

Thanks,