[RESOLVED] Problems with a Joomla install

[zubo]

Hi All

I gave up using IIS7 and switched to Apache 2.2, so using Apache, PHP5, Joomla 1.5

on Vista, all sort of ok except I get non-formatted display of backend and front end.

By that I mean that Joomla will normally display a fully formatted screen yet a preview gives me a html view ie http://localhost/test3/ gives me

(Apache's directory index)

but http://localhost/index.php gives me

(Joomla site)

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that seems to suggest that if you omit stating index.php it defaults to non-php - so how do I force Apache to ALWAYS default to php as opposed htm or html???

I have error tracking on - can anyone tell me what this means please:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known. in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\test3\libraries\simplepie\simplepie.php on line 6601

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to feeds.joomla.org:80 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known. ) in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\test3\libraries\simplepie\simplepie.php on line 6601

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known. in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\test3\libraries\simplepie\simplepie.php on line 6601

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to feeds.joomla.org:80 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known. ) in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\test3\libraries\simplepie\simplepie.php on line 6601

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known. in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\test3\libraries\simplepie\simplepie.php on line 6601

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to feeds.joomla.org:80 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known. ) in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\test3\libraries\simplepie\simplepie.php on line 6601

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\test3\libraries\simplepie\simplepie.php on line 6601

why so many same messages???? why am I referencing simplepie?????

and a resolution please...

thanks

george

[bradgrafelman]

I edited your post to remove the Joomla content; there's no need to paste the text content of a Jooma home page - you can just tell us that you can correctly view the index.

As for your first problem, you need to tell Apache that "index.php" is a valid directory index file. Look in your httpd.conf file for the "DirectoryIndex" directive and add this filename to the list.

For the subsequent problems, either "feeds.joomla.org" is/was offline, or your computer/firewall isn't allowing Apache to initiate connections to external hosts.

[zubo]

Thanks Brad, I knew it was somewhere - now fixed.

george