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1. Gorbould
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   I'm having an odd issue with changing my Wordpress permalinks to the more URL friendly model.

   (blog: http://www.gorbould.com/blog)

   I'm using Netfirms, which supports WP (though I installed it manually) and suggests using pretty permalinks as described here in the documentation.

   I checked the .htaccess file is there in my /blog directory, chmod 660.

   When I use the WordPress interface to set my Permalinks to date and name based, e.g.

   http://www.gorbould.com/blog/2006/10/04/sample-post/

   All the links point back to the homepage! (even though they display correctly in the URL)

   And when I click on the archive pages, I get this error message:

   In order to view your homepage, please name your main page "index.htm" (using lower case letters).

   I also tried forcing it to acknowledge Apache as indicated here:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/86101?replies=12

   But that didn't change anything.

   Any suggestions?

2. phuckd
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   do you have the site installed root or in a sub directory?
   ie
   yourserver/www/**the files**
   yourserver/www/wordpress/**thefiles**

   if the latter you need to change your site root in config.php to the absolute directory eg
   http://www.yourdomain/wordpress/

   and

   go to the site root directory and delete index.htm, that will be teh default apache picks up

3. Gorbould
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The blog is installed in a subdirectory (gorbould.com/blog) but that's also where it stays - I don't use WP for the root. Would I still have to make this change? (and if so, could you be more explicit - e.g. is it the wp-config.php file, and how would I change it?)

   I was looking again at the .htaccess file. I emptied it out and changed the settings, and I also deleted it, FTPed a blank one, changed the permanlinks settings and chmod 666. This is what WP created, but it doesn't seem to have much in it:

   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /blog/
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   # END WordPress

   Should this be sufficient to use the new permalinks?

4. Chris_K
   Administrator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yep, it should. One assumes, that your stuff is under www.domain.com/blog/ ?

   What values do you have for the two URI fields at Options -> General?

5. Gorbould
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yes, I installed all the WP stuff in www.gorbould.com/blog

   Both URI fields have the following:
   http://www.gorbould.com/blog

   I removed my old index.html (from when it was through Blogger) but that didn't change anything.

6. phuckd
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   add the extra forward slash to the URI in the General Options and see if that helps - the new htaccess file looks fine

   www.gorbould.co/blog
   to
   www.gorbould.co/blog/

7. Gorbould
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I tried that, and the forward slashes disappear after I hit "Update Options".

   But now I've really gone and done it... when I was experimenting with this, I tried removing the "http://" in front (so it looked like your example, above - www.gorbould.com/blog) - and that has taken my blog entirely offline! And I can't even get into the WP control panel.

   What can I do?? (weeps quietly...)

8. Chris_K
   Administrator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This will walk you through the fix for your latest misadventure ;-) http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

9. Gorbould
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for the speedy reply. I've followed those steps, and it let me change the two options back - but I'm still getting 500 errors. Anything else I can change?

10. Chris_K
    Administrator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    What happens if you ftp to your site and remove the .htaccess from the /blog directory?

11. moshu
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    There is no other solution than getting a decent host - just read what others experienced:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/49968?replies=23

12. Gorbould
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    You guys are life savers! That fixed it up.

    So, now I'm back to where I was. And in fact, I'm one step better. An IT buddy dropped by just before this most recent problem and fiddled with my htaccess file to try different variables.

    When I replaced this:

    RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]

    with this:

    RewriteRule (.*) /blog/index.php/$1 [L]

    ...the pretty permalinks started working. Well, they work for the posts, and pages (e.g. About) - but they still don't work for the Archives.

    When I click on September 2006, for example, I get an error page that says "in order to view your homepage, please name your main page "index.htm" (using lower case letters)."

    Any suggestions on this? It must be that htaccess business again, no? I can almost taste it... and again, thanks for your advice.

13. Gorbould
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    moshu: Wow, thanks for that link... wish I had read that months ago. But it seems like NetFirms is getting up to speed.

    I got this (not terribly helpful) message from their support:

    Not all the permalink structures are supported. We recommend one of two that has been tested and proven to work:

    Example #1: To have your posts display individually as (for example)
    http://yourdomain.com/yourblog/nfblog/2006/02/03/sample-post/
    enter the following:

    /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

    Example #2: To have your posts display as:
    http://yourdomain.com/yourblog/nfblog/archives/123 (this uses the post id), enter:

    /index.php/archives/%post_id%

    So they seem to think it can be made to work... we'll see. If we can solve that Archives issue, I might be the first :)

14. Gorbould
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Well, I used that suggestion, and found that it had been here all along:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/49968?replies=25#post-436575

    Prepending "index.php" makes everything else work.

    /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

    Must be a NetFirms thing, which I'll complain about.

    I'd love to find a way to get that index.php out of the filenames, so all my old posts imported from Blogger will end up in the right place. In the meantime, should I just figure out how to create redirects for all 50 of my old posts?

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