$live_site in 2.5

[tomsusic]

I installed Joomla 2.5 into a "sub directory" (e.g. www.____.com/joomla25) with the demo data. The home page comes up nice, but when clicking a link the template looses it, formatting is sort of gone and some items on page reference 404 errors. I checked the configuration file and noticed $live_site="". When I change this to $live_site="http://www.____.com/joomla25" my problems seem to go away. Two questions: Do you have an installation bug in not setting $live_site? And will my setting $live_site manually affect anything in a bad way?

Thanks,
Tom Susic

[Alex Dobrin]

Do you have an installation bug in not setting $live_site?

No. Most hosting servers are working fine with that variable not set ( it can be determined by Joomla's code ).

And will my setting $live_site manually affect anything in a bad way?

The only problem I saw, when this configuration variable is set, is that the site is not working with and without "www" in front of the domain. But if you set the page to always ( or never ) use "www" you should be fine.
This can be done through some .htaccess code ( if you server allows it ).
This topic might help with that : http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f ... 5#p1718836 .