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1. koprowski
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I recently upgraded my blog to WP 2.0 and thought things were going great until I noticed that my click through rate had dropped significantly.

   I just now realized the reason: All of my in-site links no longer work. They all bring me back to my homepage. That's not entirely accurate: What happens is this:

   My website is http://www.WilyTrader.com

   One of my Permalinks is WilyTrader.com/Downloads

   What happens is that the browser tells me that it has taken me to the desired page but it looks just like the homepage.

   This is what I have tried so far:
   1) Disabled all the plugins
   2) Checked .htaccess to make sure it was set to 666
   3) Tried changing the permalinks structure to see if that would help

   That was about all the ideas I was able to come up with on my own, so any help from here would be much appreciated.

   Thank you,

   Jason

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Not sure if even the ugly ones don't work.
   You might want to take care of some of these (a world record I believe...:>)):
   http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wilytrader.com%2F

3. estjohn
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   To get mine to work I had to

   keep all plugins disabled and set it to use default them, then set permalinks in options to a custom like /%category%/%postname%/ and update permalinks.

   See if that works

   also, open your .htaccess and see if it still has rules in it and it is not empty. mine was blank and I had to put a copy of them in there

   then I restarted everything and it worked fine.. then I changed themes and it was ok.

4. koprowski
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   OK so here's an update:

   I still have all plugins disabled for the time being. I then changed my Permalinks structure back to the Default ?Page_ID# and all of my permalinks worked.

   So I then tried to change the structure to anything else /%postname%/ is what i had been using, but I tried a number of different configurations with no luck. When I would change the configuration, I would still be able to access the pages if I typed in the ?Page_ID# structure manually:

   For example:

   http://www.wilytrader.com/?page_id=121 is the same page as

   http://www.wilytrader.com/downloads but I can't seem to get the new structure to hold.

   I don't know what my .htaccess file is supposed to look like. It isn't empty, but there's not much in it so I'll post it:

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

   # END WordPress

   Is this what is supposed to be in there? if so, anyone have any other suggestions?

   Thanks again.

5. Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)
   Moderator
   Posted 5 years ago #

   That's all that's supposed to be in there. Parsing of the URLs is done by PHP now rather than mod_rewrite in the .htaccess file.

6. koprowski
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   which is all that's supposed to be in there, the first one or the second one?

   So the .htaccess should be relatively empty? Which PHP is supposed to do the parsing then because my links still aren't working?

7. estjohn
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   has it ever worked? reason I am asking is that Apache has a place in it where it might not be allowing the rerwrite rules from the .htaccess ..

8. koprowski
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Been working for months with version 1.5 I only upgraded to 2.0 this week and only then have I had any issues

9. koprowski
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I've been in touch with Netfirms Support and they told me to change my Permalinks Structure to

   /index.php/%postname%/

   This has made it so that the links are at least a little bit prettier but now all of my links are in the form of http://www.WilyTrader.com/index.php/downloads etc...

   How can I make it so that the /index.php/ doesn't show up in the link as simply using the structure /%postname%/ doesn't work?

   Thanks again for any suggestions,

   ~Jason

10. Chris_K
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Get a real host?

    Search here on netfirms and permalinks.

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