elementsapp://downloadDocument/5dhlzd9fwNWd
copied containers from microblog then reset the settings…
still getting garbage…
There are several issues with this site. First, the pages other than the HOME page do not have any folder names. Second, the post page is not PHP. I gave the post page a folder name of ‘posts’ and added the PHP in place of the HTML on the page name, and it works just fine. I also gave the About page a folder named “about”.
you just need to change the filename to be index.php rather than index.html on both the Archive and Post pages.
Thank you! forgot about Changing it to php…
Thanx again 
Stupid Mistake
And from the FAQ section I’ve just been adding to my CMS book:
Q: When I Preview in Browser I get a bunch of gibberish code as an error message while trying to display the site.
A: Are the pages that contain CMS elements in your site set as HTML? They need to have the PHP extension to work.
I’d point out that there are other “indicators” of a CMS use problem than this one. For instance, if you have the wrong YAML or mistype your Twig reference, you get a “Item Not Found” message where the CMS should appear.
I’m in the process of trying to find all of the main ones, as they all have simple fixes, yet those fixes aren’t intuitively obvious all the time.
Hope I’m not being pedantic here but this problem is in relation to a blog? This is nothing to do with CMS, you don not need CMS to do a blog? Please correct me if I’m wrong. I feel a lot of people are getting tied down with CMS and Blogs as some older RW stacks required both to have a blog?
At the moment, the only way to do a traditional blog entirely within Elements is to use the CMS. Indeed, I just finished the chapter on “Add a Blog to an Elements Project” in my Little Book of Elements CMS (now at 85 pages!).
You could also:
- Use some external blogging engine, but you’ll be adding Custom Components to your project to do that, as you’ll need HTML code that references things outside of Elements. Someone asked if you could use WordPress for this, and yes, WordPress has an API, but you’re going to be getting into some geeky code pretty fast, and you’ll still need a WP host and its mySQL database. And now you have two sites to manage, the WP one and your Elements one.
- Wait for the third-party Store support and any third-party blogging solution. I suspect there will be one pretty fast, but again, I’m 100% comfortable now with the Elements CMS. The only real missing component is the promised optional “remote entry” system.
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I appreciate your answer and I am glad to see your little book of CMS has a chapter on Blogs. I think the most important thing here as you say is the CMA/CDA part as until this appears then CMS system relies on creator.