Hi Becky,
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Becky Cartine <[email protected]> wrote: > This message is a follow-up to a question I had months ago about setting > the Absolute URL > so that the links for all the blog entries on the site have the domain > name instead of the IP address. > > My site uses Roller 4.0.1 > > I finally got the login/pwd I needed to go to the Server Admin page and > Site Settings form. > > In the field labeled "Absolute URL to site" I entered " > http://www.MYSITE.com"; > > Before, the blog entry links were: > > http://IP_ADDRESS/roller/blog/entry/[permalink] You can configure your app server (Tomcat or whatever) to deploy Roller at the root of your web server. You might have to refer to your app server's instructions to figure this out. After, the blog entry links were INCORRECTLY: > http://www.MYSITE.com/blog/entry/[permalink] That is correct. Roller blogs normally appear at BASEURL/BLOGNAME. Roller is designed to provide many blogs on each server, each with that form of URL. > So next I tried setting the Absolute URL to "http://www.MYSITE.com/roller"; > but the results were even more far off: > > http://www.MYSITE.com/roller/blog/blog/entry/[permalink] That is expected. You set the BASEURL to http://www.MYSITE.com/roller<http://www.mysite.com/roller> and that is what you got. Finally, I reset the Absolute URL field back to empty and hit "Save" > but the links on the blog site are still showing the wrong URLs. > > Please advise on how to fix this, or at least get it back to using IP > addresses in the links. > It sounds like what you want is for one blog to be considered the "front page" blog of your site. To do that see Roller's Server Admin->Configuration page and set the "Weblog to serve as frontpage blog" setting the blog that you want to appear at the root URL of your site. Hope that helps. - Dave
