After (quite literally) years of trying (not terribly hard) to get Scoop
up and running to see how it might work as a course discussion tool, we
finally got it working, with a couple of little hiccups.
First, and more importantly, when creating a new user in our Scoop
install, they get an e-mail with a URL of the form:
* http://scoop.morris.umn.edu/scoop/activate/xxxxxx
where xxxxxx is some sort of identifying key. Clicking that link
rewrites (on Scoop's end) to a URL of the form:
* http://scoop.morris.umn.edu//scoopuser/xxx/prefs?firstlogin=1
where xxx is the user name for the new user. This fails (404, Not
Found) because one of the two slashes before "scoopuser" should be
_between_ those words, i.e., "scoop/user" or (in full):
* http://scoop.morris.umn.edu/scoop/user/xxx/prefs?firstlogin=1
Their accounts work fine, but it's obviously pretty confusing (esp. to
non-technical folks) to get a 404 when you clink on the link as asked.
I don't understand is where this text is generated and how to fix the
problem. I don't _think_ it's in my parameter settings. My site_url is
"http://scoop.morris.umn.edu", and my rootdir is "/scoop", all of which
looks right.
Secondly (and less likely to be noticed by students), the "Add/Edit Tags
to this Story" link just before the comments on a story doesn't work.
The URL is (e.g.)
* http://scoop.morris.umn.edu/addtag/2007/1/15/12128/2153
but gives you a 404 (Not Found) if you click on it.
All other links, sections, etc., seem to work.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Nic McPhee
Division of Science and Mathematics
University of Minnesota, Morris
mcphee AT morris DOT umn DOT edu