Tell a Friend error

[Harkster]

I think I have found an error.

Tell a Friend works ok from index, but from anywhere else result is a 404 error when the verify page should be displayed. As in:

The verify link is of the form Natural Hair Care Blog (from details page), http://www.qualityblogs.com/beauty/tell_friend.php (from category page) etc. I observed similar results on the Indexu Templates demo for Facing.

Could it be an htaccess issue?

Hate being such a pest but...

[FSGDAG]

Does tell_friend.html exist in the template?

[Bruceper]

Add base href to your header and it will solve the issue

<base target="yoururl.ext" />

[Harkster]

Does tell_friend.html exist in the template?

Actually tell_friend_form.html, tell_friend_fav_form.html and tell_friend_site_form.html exist. All of them are referenced in tell_friend.php

Add base href to your header and it will solve the issue

<base target="yoururl.ext" />

I added <base target="qualityblogs.com" /> in the heat part of header.html. If that is right it didn't work. Does it go somewhere else?

[FSGDAG]

After making the change, did you clear all the files in /template_c?? You could be caching the header.

[Harkster]

No but the view source shows the change.

While things don't seem quite right I kludged a way to get rid of the 404. In block.tell_friend.html I changed <form action="tell_friend.php" method="post"> to be <form action="http://qualityblogs.com/tell_friend.php" method="post">

The $_POST array info seems to get lost along the way but the 404 issue is gone.

Ok, this seems to work. I changed the base target to <base href="http://www.domain.ext/" />. Goes directly to the Tell a Friend

Thank you. Your email has been sent message. Things seem to work as I would expect but...

IMHO that shouldn't be necessary.

[Bruceper]

DOH I typed the wrong text

<base href="http://qualityblogs.com" />

is correct. Sorry about that.

It isn't necessary on most servers. But some servers have difficulty picking up the base on it's own so they need a little help. It's a server issue, not an IndexU issue.

[Harkster]

DOH I typed the wrong text

<base href="http://qualityblogs.com" />

is correct. Sorry about that.

It isn't necessary on most servers. But some servers have difficulty picking up the base on it's own so they need a little help. It's a server issue, not an IndexU issue.

I can accept that. Last note - is <base href="<%$site_url%>" /> an acceptable and more generalized way to do it?

[Bruceper]

Not in your case, because your server is having issues giving the script the $site_url. You should use the full URL.