Re: Very strange/confusing startup behaviour

Chris G wrote:
> I am trying to set up pyBlosxom so I can have two separate blogs.
> 
> I first tried making copies of pyblosxom.cgi and config.py to files
> called tlblosxom.cgi and tmlcfg.py.  I changed tlblosxom.cgi as
> follows:-
> 
>     from tmlcfg import tl as cfg
> 
> ... and I changed all py{} and py[] references in tmlcfg.py to tl{}
> and tl[].  In addition I changed the datadir one in tmlcfg.py to:-
> 
>     tl["datadir"] = "/home/chris/webdev/tlblog"
> 
> (the config.py one points at /home/chris/webdev/blog)
> 
> 
> I then called the URL:-
> 
>     http://home.isbd.net/cgi-bin/tlblosxom.cgi
> 
> the result was *identical* to what I get when calling the pyblosxom
> CGI.  I restarted apache and I even restarted the computer to see if
> there was some caching going on but nothing changed.
> 
> I then *removed* config.py from the CGI directory, the above tlblosxom
> line then worked as I expected and showed my differently rooted blog.
> If I put the config.py file back then tlblosxom CGI shows my old blog
> rooted at /home/chris/webdev/blog.
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong - if anything?  Why does even a changed CGI file
> and config file which don't have any references to my original blog
> still default to using it when the old config.py file is present.
> 
> It looks as if "config.py" is in the code elsewhere.

It's possible.  This is something that I and others have been working on 
fixing over the last few versions, but there are probably still some 
icky instances floating around.

I'll do another pass through the 1.4.3 code before I release it and see 
if I unearth anything.

/will

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