Single Blog Config Causes Broken Blog URLs

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winterminute Posted: Thu, Mar 13 2008 1:15 PM

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I posted this in the other forum, but didn't get any response.  I'm pretty sure this is a very simple issue.

I made changes so that clicking on "Blogs" on the homepage would take me directly to a single blog.  This part works, however, the links to the actual posts (on the blog home page) point to the wrong path.  The post links have the following directory structure:
http://winterminute.com/blogs/ourblog/archive/2008/03/09/test2.aspx

However, the correct directory structure should be:
http://winterminute.com/blogs/archive/2008/03/09/test2.aspx

I know this is because of the change I made to my override files and I know enough about CS customization to figure out what the correct URL should be, but I don't know enough to figure out why the blog links aren't following the same logic as the homepage.

Here's my entire siteurl_override.config file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Overrides>
    <Override xpath = "/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='weblogs']" mode = "change" name = "type" value = "CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.SingleBlogLocation, CommunityServer.Blogs" />
</Overrides>

Here's the only part of communityserver_override.config that I think matters - I can post the whole thing if needed:
    <Override xpath = "/CommunityServer/Weblog" mode = "new" name = "defaultApplicationKey" value = "ourblog" />

On the blog home page, clicking on the Blog title (at the top of the page) also has the wrong URL format:
Current (but wrong) link:
http://winterminute.com/blogs/ourblog

Correct Link:
http://winterminute.com/blogs

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Ken Robertson replied on Thu, Apr 24 2008 12:09 PM

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You also need to set the physicalPath setting in the siteurls.config to point to the physical path, even if it is the same as the path.  You can use this:

<Override xpath="/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='weblogs']" mode="new" name="physicalPath"value="/blogs/"  />

Basically, you want the 'path' to be set to where you want the blog at on the site, so you can add an override to change the path setting to '/blog/', or '/myawesomeblog/', but the physicalPath needs to point back to the original default location of /blogs/.