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1. Stefano Garuti
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   hi all,
   I just intalled WP on my test environment (win xp).
   It's really a good piece of software, I enjoy it and it run very well.
   Pingback is exciting, I tested it between some test posts on my test install and are working very well.
   But I want also trackback. I tested it with some post on my installation but I can't run it anyway...
   Each post shows its own trackback url but, when I trackback from another post Nothing appear on the comments...
   I think is something wrong with the trackback url.
   It is something like http://localhost/digitaldivide/wp-trackback.php/11
   but I have not mod_rewrite on nor any permalink option enabled so what that /11 rapresent?
   please help me!
   WP is perfect for my needs but I want trackback ;-)

2. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 8 years ago #

   If I could see your site, I could try to help more ?
   I could try to trackback one of your entries on my blog ?

3. Stefano Garuti
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   @podz:
   Unfortunately I'm running it on a local lan, I'll see if I can get this baby out to the internet...
   @LaughingLizard:
   Thanks, I'lltry it an let you know what happened ;-)
   just to check if I understood:
   Without that changes WP can't have trackback running without mod_rewrite enabled, right?

4. Stefano Garuti
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Thanks, I changed the function but it doesnt seem to solve the problem:
   (running WP version 1.0.1)
   I tried with a friendof my: my WP correctly sends the trackback to a post on his site.
   The problem is I can't "receive" (or at least I can't see) trackback from another post...
   Any hint?

5. Stefano Garuti
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Just an update:
   In the db, table wp_comments, column comment_content, the trackback I received are inserted.
   So it looks like is a "display" problem: when I read the comments WP shows 'regular' comments, pingback but not trackback...
   could it be?

6. Stefano Garuti
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   An other update:
   In the db, table wp_comments, when the comment is a trackback (I believe they are marked with <trackback />) the column comment_post_ID contains 0 instead of the real post_ID.
   Then, when wp shows the comments related to this post that trackback comments aren't picked up...
   Now I'll try to investigate why the post_ID isn't inserted in the table..
   ciao

7. Stefano Garuti
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   So the problems seems to be in wp-trackback.php:
   the post_ID is taken from $tb_id as in the following lines:
   
$tb_id = explode('/', $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REQUEST_URI']);
$tb_id = intval($tb_id[count($tb_id)-1]);
....
....
....
$comment_post_ID = $tb_id;

   Now, is obvious that if we have the trackback url formatted as:
   http://localhost/digitaldivide/wp-trackback.php?p=21
   nothing meaningful can be 'exploded'
   I tried changing the explode('/' with explode('p=' but without any result...

8. _mf_
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Interesting how the same problem can get so different answers:
   Bad trackback link. mod_rewrite problem ?

9. Stefano Garuti
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   @_mf__: yes :-)
   Now I solved the problem:
   As far as I understood the problem was that all the WP function dealing with trackback are written as we can use the mod_rewrite.
   So the post_id wasn't passed to the wp_trackback.php file...
   Now I changed the trackback() function in function.php file and some lines in wp_trackback.php...
   At this time the trackback are working...
   I'll tweak some things then I'll post here my changes...
   ciao
   Stefano

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