could anybody help me - PLEASE

Hi Guys,

A friend of mine showed me the benifits of Dolphin and I straight away decided to download and set up on one of my servers for a massive project I am doing for bwin.

Basically I have installed Dolphin on a domain with Wordpress already situated in the route;

http://www.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk/ (wordpress)

http://www.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk/community/ (dolphin)

the only problem is that certain areas on dolphin arent working, instead of displaying dolphin pages it is displaying the default wordpress 404 page, examples;

http://www.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk/community/maxthornton

http://www.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk/community/events

am i doing something wrong? could somebody please give me some advice?

You are seeing the error default WordPress pages because the are in route :)

You do not have all your PHP functions activated. If you are NOT comfortable with PHP then go into Admin Dashboard and remove all the PERMALINKS under SETTINGS that's a temporary fix at least.

Get those PHP functions working!

Hi Somba,

Without sounding like a complete idiot - how do i get the php funtions working?

many thanks

ralph

Quite possible since dolphin is not your root domain your wordpress one is. Dolphin appears to be installed in a subfolder:
http://www.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk/community/ (dolphin)

You might consider opening and editing your .htaccess file located here:
http://www.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk/community/.htaccess

And add the following:
RewriteBase /

After the rewrite engine referrence like so:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

There would obviously be more code before and after this but just add it after rewrite engine. First backup the .htaccess file to your local pc just in case you mess up and you can restore/re-upload if necessary.

That would be the first thing you might try.

I know for a fact, that it will work the other way around, Dolphin in the root, and WP in a subdirectory... but you do have to be careful what you name the sub directory.  The WP .htaccess in the root directory is going to make things a little tricky, and I'm not sure if changing rewrite base in the dolphin subdirectory will do the trick.

I don't know if it will work, but you could try creating a subdomain like http:/community.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk that points to your dolphin subdirectory, then use the subdomain as your dolphin site url in header.inc.php.  I've never tried that, so I have no idea if it will work.

If you elect to create dolphin as a subdomain instead of in a subfolder it will mess your dolphin licensing up if you already have dolphin licensing registered free or paid. Meaning you will need a whole new license.

for example:
http://www.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk/community/

is not the same as:
community.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk

It will be regarded as a different domain and need a different license.

If it's:
http://www.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk/community/

and you add:
http://www.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk/dolphin/

Then same licensing, will work last time I checked. Unless they recoded this recently.

Subdomains will mess up your licensing and require different keys. If you have paid ones you would need to contact boonex to change them. If you have free ones you can just generate additional ones. Should you elect to go subdomain route instead.

So this can also be a slight pain, draw back, and issue to deal with should you go that route.

If you haven't entered license keys and info than no big deal.


So really you should try the rewrite as it only takes a few seconds. Make sure the other rewrite rules follow as specified in the .htaccess, and be sure that your host supports mod_rewrite which they probably do if you have a modern/recent wordpress install.

The rewritebase command hopefully will tell it to ignore your main directory(wordpress) and think only dolphin or:
http://www.bigtimepokerleague.co.uk/community/ when people are visiting your dolphin directory, yet when they visit your root directory wordpress the rules in the main .htaccess for it will still apply thereby functioning as it's supposed to.

Anyway just a simple quick test, why not give it a quick 5 second test?

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