Jounal not being created

Software Support
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OJS 3.2.0.1

When I create the Journal, it shows the following error:
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What path should I put?

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you need to enter just “j1” without https://yourdomain.com

Like this
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But that was already there
 Im not able to remove it


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have you tried only letters in “path”?

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Yes. I tried words like journal, new, path etc.
Even tried index.php/cmp

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Can someone comment on this pls. I will lose my job if im not able to do this

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Hi @Altaf_Bankotkar,

What happens when you enter a single word into the field, e.g. j1 or journal?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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hi @asmecher, it says The requested URL was not recognized.
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I tried index.php/j1 too.

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Hi @Altaf_Bankotkar,

I’d suggest checking your PHP error log for more details.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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This is the last error it shows:

[31-Mar-2020 20:54:58 Europe/Berlin] PHP Strict Standards: mktime(): We selected ‘Europe/Berlin’ for ‘CEST/2.0/DST’ instead in /homepages/7/d821207413/htdocs/journal/ojs-3.2.0-1/lib/pkp/lib/vendor/adodb/adodb-php/adodb-time.inc.php on line 1091

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Hi @Altaf_Bankotkar,

Look for something containing the word “Error”; that warning is harmless and shouldn’t cause problems.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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In today’s date, there are 9 other warnings showing the same thing. No error.

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Hi @Altaf_Bankotkar,

Are you using rewriting rules, e.g. with Apache’s mod_rewrite, to alter the URLs to your installation? Check your browser’s developer toolset to see what URL the request is being sent to when you try to create the journal; for some reason, this URL is not being recognized by OJS when it tries to process the request.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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No, I’m not aware of rewriting rules. If you mean the settings in my config file, it looks like this:

; Use URL parameters instead of CGI PATH_INFO. This is useful for
; broken server setups that don’t support the PATH_INFO environment
; variable.
disable_path_info = On

; Use fopen(
) for URL-based reads. Modern versions of dspace
; will not accept requests using fopen, as it does not provide a
; User Agent, so this option is disabled by default. If this feature
; is disabled by PHP’s configuration, this setting will be ignored.
allow_url_fopen = Off

; Base URL override settings: Entries like the following examples can
; be used to override the base URLs used by OJS. If you want to use a
; proxy to rewrite URLs to OJS, configure your proxy’s URL here.
; Syntax: base_url[journal_path] = http://www.myUrl.com
; To override URLs that aren’t part of a particular journal, use a
; journal_path of “index”.
; Examples:
; base_url[index] = http://www.myUrl.com
; base_url[myJournal] = http://www.myUrl.com/myJournal
; base_url[myOtherJournal] = http://myOtherJournal.myUrl.com

Can you please help me with where exactly I have to look in developer tools?

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Hi @Altaf_Bankotkar,

Ah, I see that you’re using disable_path_info. If it’s at all possible I would strongly recommend against using that option – in fact, we’re likely to remove it from future releases. It’s a work-around for “broken” web servers, and causes parts of the system, e.g. the OAI-PMH interface, to break their specifications.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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You mean I should turn > disable_path_info to off?

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Hi @Altaf_Bankotkar,

Yes, set disable_path_info to Off.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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If I turn it off, The website does not work at all:
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Hi @Altaf_Bankotkar,

That’s an issue with your web server configuration, rather than OJS; here’s a thread with some suggestions on how to set up your web server so that the PATH_INFO variable works as it should: About Restful Url with PHP CGI/FCGI - #2 by asmecher

I’d suggest spending some time getting it working with a test script, then come back to OJS and see if that fixes things.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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I made the test.php file, shows the following on the browser:
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And no matter what words I put in the path, the request header always shows the following:
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