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1. adagiomarine
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Dang - I should be able to figure this out, but after about 4 hours struggle I'm gonna ask for help!

   Post Permalinks work fine (FYI, I'm using "/archives/%year%%monthnum%%day%/%postname%/")

   My problem is linking to WP1.5 PAGES ("static" pages). E.g., as I read the Codex on "Pages" my Archives page (ID=41) should be linked as:

   http://seekerblog.com/archives/. Oddly, that URI appears to link to the site root. Others such as /about/ result in 404.

   Link by pageID works fine (http://seekerblog.com/?page_id=41)

   I just deleted/recreated the Archives Page: name = Archives, template = Archives, that's it.

   http://seekerblog.com/archives/20050207/chris-landsea-leaves-ipcc/

   What stupid thing am I doing?

   PS: I recently upgraded from 1.2.2 to 1.5-0206, so this is first time I've used Pages.

   Many thanx, Steve

2. ceo
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Is your htaccess writable? If not, you need to update it manually everytime you create a page because the permalinks change.

3. mdawaffe
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   The /archives/ problem is likely caused by your permalink structure. Get rid of the initial /archives/ from your permalink structure or call your page something else (you might have to manually edit the page slug).

4. macmanx
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You need a slash between %year% %monthnum% and %day%. You don't have to get rid of /archives/, in fact, you probably shouldn't. What you want is:
   /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

   See this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

5. carthik
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Try using this:
   http://boren.nu/archives/2004/10/08/alternative-rewrite-rules/

6. amiya
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I had the exact same problem with the exact same nightly. Thanks, 2fargon!

7. adagiomarine
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Is .htaccess writeable? I certainly thought so, permissions are -rwxrwxr-x.

   >everytime you create a page because the permalinks change

   Wow, that's a revelation. I missed that completely in the codex.

   Thanks steve.

8. macmanx
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   The permissions for .htaccess should be CHMOD 644.

9. adagiomarine
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks heaps 2fargon - that rewrite approach is brilliant (and fixed my problem to boot).

   macmanx - I don't think there is a problem with encoding yyyymmdd with no slashes. It's a few bytes shorter, and works fine.

   mdawaffe - I don't think /archives/ is a problem - at least using the rewrite approach 2fargon suggested. Now the link http://seekerblog.com/archives/ resolves to the "archives" Page.

10. mdawaffe
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    macmanx, thanks for the correction
    adagiomarine, thanks for the confirmation of the correction

    Good to know :)

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