joomla / mambo

[yukon]

any of you guys / gals heard of either of these? They are supposedly tools for source control and web design / deployment. I'm having a slight issue with Joomla! I'm working building a duplicate webserver (for cold swap capability / redundancy) and apparently everything works excluding some menu drop downs. I generally don't know squat about web design or programming, but I can make my way around an OS and a network and was "gifted" this lovely project . . . As near as I can tell, I missed a joomla component somewhere (must be outside of both htdocs (apache2.2.x) and the mysql DB joomla stores all its content in ... Anyhow, I figured while I toil away looking for what I broke, maybe one of you webhost and design folks would have an idea.

[THERESA]

More Greek. Gotta love it! :p

[Kaos]

I just started playing around with joomla too, thinking of using for a new site I have to design for a client. Sadly, I;m not much help though, I haven't had much time to play in there yet, but I did crash it a few times trying to fancy with it LOL I keep debating using that or phpcow(which is a paid script) only because I know the cow and how to tweak it out already. Not sure I'm in the mood lately to learn anything new right now. Did you look around their forum? They seem to have alot of 'issues' and 'solutions' covered in there?

[Big Dan]

I don't know much about Joomla or Mambo. BTW Joomla is a fork of Mambo. Mambo is Joomla's baby mama. :D

I've played around with a few test installs and it appears to have awesome functionality but the Control panel is a monster, stuff is strewn all over the place I really don't get the flow of it. vBulletin's CP is a monster too but it has a flow that makes sense, to me at least.

Generally speaking regardless of the CMS when there's a problem with drop down menus it's almost always a javascript issue. I hope that points you in the right direction. :)

[yukon]

Generally speaking regardless of the CMS when there's a problem with drop down menus it's almost always a javascript issue. I hope that points you in the right direction. :)

yeah, pretty much jives with what I've been reading online, problem I can't fogure out is why the script would run fine on the original server and not on my duplicate? I've stolen the php.ini, the httpd.conf, and the entire htdocs directory (along with copies of the joomla and mambo DBs, this site had both installed -> I believe it was done as an "upgrade" to joomla, because when I imported gthe sqldump of the Joomla DB, it created the mambo DB tables too).

[esnagel]

Is the duplicated site on the same domain as the original? You may be running into an XSS issue which would stop the javascript from working on the other site. Ex:

Site A on domain A references JS on domain A - works fine
Site B on domain B references JS on domain A - XSS hole & stopped

Simply copying the files over will not work - you'll need to update a config.php file somewhere to make sure Site B on domain B doesn't try to access domain A.

[yukon]

Is the duplicated site on the same domain as the original? You may be running into an XSS issue which would stop the javascript from working on the other site. Ex:

Site A on domain A references JS on domain A - works fine
Site B on domain B references JS on domain A - XSS hole & stopped

Simply copying the files over will not work - you'll need to update a config.php file somewhere to make sure Site B on domain B doesn't try to access domain A.

same domain . . . I setup host file records for all locally hosted sites on siteB (and on my client), and am tunnelling port 80 via ssh for browser access (the apache server is running vhosting and needs the hostname in the URL). This is a pretty big corporate site (siteA = www.authentidate.com), all content, and other icons and such are functioning, the ONLY thing not working are these g-d forsaken drop down menus.
thanks again for any input guys.

[esnagel]

Try using Firebug to debug it. Firefox extension...

[Kaos]

Interesting looking tool Eric... I think I'll download it later on my real computer and check i out!

[yukon]

I tried . . . its not compatible with FF3.* and I couldn't find any of computers still had 2.X on them . . .