Martin Dougiamas

Time for a new FAQ, I think.

Edit your config.php and remove all blank lines or spaces after the final ?> (right at the end)

Hmm .. wierd.

What happens when you toggle "slasharguments" in the admin's "Configure Variables" page?

"More information about this error may be available in the server error log."

Is there more information in the Apache error log?

Yes, this is actually normal.

The main menu block there is called "section 0", and is the default location for the news forum when it is created (same as in the the courses, where section 0 is the very top section).

Older versions of Moodle stored the News forum in section 1 (which is invisible on the site page) - so people who have been upgrading (like Claudio and me ) will not have this same problem you're having.

Eventually there should be some way of solving this, but a desperate hack you could try now is to edit mod/forum/lib.php, looking for this line:

    $mod->section = 0;

in the function forum_get_course_forum(), and change it to:

    $mod->section = 1;

Save the file, then delete your News forum again and refresh the site page. Voila!

Then go back into the file again and undo your change to that line.

There is another way to do this by editing the database tables directly (course_sections and course_modules) but it's a little easier to muck things up that way.

Don't worry, I know about the problems of browser compatibility ... the Moodle you're looking at now is not exactly a 5 minute job.

I agree totally about transition - I have no intention of breaking anything or alienating anyone. XHTML 1.x is a distant goal, but when I say XHTML I've always meant it like it's described here: http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/xhtml/guidelines.html

This is actually XHTML 1.0 Transitional - so I probably should be clearer by using that name from now on.

My main aim is just to clean up my own 1994-based HTML habits and move to consistent lower case tags, quoted attributes, closed tags etc, while removing things like FONT tags. This stuff is not going to cause browser problems. After that, details like doctypes and xml prologues are quite minor (just a line or two at the top).