Ads in page

[gobeavs]

I installed SMF and the Mambo Bridge, and everything seems to be configured right except above the login on my main page it shows the ads from the top of the page the forum is on....and it just overlaps whatever is on the home page....did I miss something to configure? Or is this just a side effect of a page with ads?

NOTE: If I view the forum seperately, there are no ads. Don't ask me why though . I am using a free host (100webspace.com), and that is why there are/should be ads.

I tried this with the SMF-Mambo integration 1.2 and it didn't work with that either.

Any help would be appreciated...

[Orstio]

I installed SMF and the Mambo Bridge, and everything seems to be configured right except above the login on my main page it shows the ads from the top of the page the forum is on....and it just overlaps whatever is on the home page....did I miss something to configure? Or is this just a side effect of a page with ads?

This is most likely just a side effect of how your host displays the ads.

NOTE: If I view the forum seperately, there are no ads. Don't ask me why though . I am using a free host (100webspace.com), and that is why there are/should be ads.

How about if you drop Mambo into a sub-directory?  Instead of having Mambo at http://www.mysite.com, have it at http://www.mysite.com/cms ?  Your host might be showing ads only for iterms in your root directory.

[gobeavs]

This is most likely just a side effect of how your host displays the ads.

How about if you drop Mambo into a sub-directory?  Instead of having Mambo at http://www.mysite.com [nofollow], have it at http://www.mysite.com/cms [nofollow] ?  Your host might be showing ads only for iterms in your root directory.

Yeah, mambo and SMF are in sub-directorys, but there are still ads. Simpleboard works fine, so I can always use it, I just wanted something a little more robust.

[gobeavs]

No other advice?

[[Unknown]]

Can you give a URL, please?

-[Unknown]

[gobeavs]

Can you give a URL, please?

-[Unknown]

http://gobeavs.coconia.net/whshomework/ [nofollow]

http://gobeavs.coconia.net/forum/ [nofollow]

The second link is a direct link to the forum....which does have ads at the top (I was mistaken earlier I guess)

[[Unknown]]

Please don't access SSI.php by URL directly; you may want to use the path ('SSI.php') or add ?ssi_function=something.

Did you see that message?  The path to SMF is set wrong; it should be using a path, not a URL.

-[Unknown]

[gobeavs]

Please don't access SSI.php by URL directly; you may want to use the path ('SSI.php') or add ?ssi_function=something.

Did you see that message?  The path to SMF is set wrong; it should be using a path, not a URL.

-[Unknown]

I saw that, but I don't really get what it means. In the template it has /SSI.php, so I put SSI.php instead, so its not an absolute path, but that didn't work. Do you really think thats the problem? Thanks for your help.

[[Unknown]]

The error message means you're using this:

http://www.example.com/forum/SSI.php

Instead of this:

/home/example/public_html/forum/SSI.php

Or similar.

-[Unknown]

[gobeavs]

The error message means you're using this:

http://www.example.com/forum/SSI.php [nofollow]

Instead of this:

/home/example/public_html/forum/SSI.php

Or similar.

-[Unknown]

And how do I go about doing that? I tried replacing

require ($smf_path."/SSI.php")

with various things...but its not working (it gives me the webhost login prompt....as you can see if you visit the web site)

File structure-
gobeavs.coconia.net > forum > SSI.php

And I do have experience with various filesystems (linux and windows), so I don't think I'm that incompetent

And it has the same error message by the ads in the login form, which would be in the module...so I guess I have to edit that also...

[Kindred]

no... I think you just have to fix the SMF_PATH...

In your mambo admin, go to the com_smf config screen....

It should be the absolute PATH to SMF... not the URL to SMF...

in other words, as [unknown] indicated /home/example/public_html/forum

[gobeavs]

Ok...thanks for the help guys..that made it work.

THANK YOU!