Excerpts added after the fact have screwed up all posts: return to the homepage?

  • stenphen

    (@stenphen)


    18 years ago

    http://www.winningman.com/blog/

    As a novice, I don’t have the troubleshooting skills to understand why all post titles (when clicked) are now showing the homepage all over again, even though the URL changes for each.

    Example: last post at the bottom of this page. This is the only Excerpt I left, as I tried to correct the issue once already so the remaining posts are in their entirety… clicking the “Continue reading…” link also has the same return-to-top-of-homepage issues.

    Please, if anyone has any insight, point me in the right direction… I posted twice already to no response. If I have to reinstall, I’ll do that, but would like to know if there is a simple fix to this seemingly simple problem (to anyone other than myself perhaps).

    Thanks in advance.

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years ago

    Why do you have an index.html at this address: http://winningman.com/blog/index.html ?

    Thread Starter stenphen

    (@stenphen)

    18 years ago

    Thanks moshu…

    Not sure what you are referring to… I do not see an index page (HTML) in that folder via FTP — only an index.php file, and that was what I installed with everything else WP. I have not added any files other than the install items…

    Can you elaborate on your line of thinking?

    Much appreciated.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years ago

    If you click on the link above – it displays your blog. It shouldn’t. It should give a 404 not found error, if there is no index.html in that directory.
    Maybe there is something in your .htaccess, but the reason your blog doesn’t go where you want (e.g. to a single view of a post) is because of that index.html file. Or something that makes WP “to find it” instead of the index.php.

    Thread Starter stenphen

    (@stenphen)

    18 years ago

    Understood. Hmmm… I will examine the .htaccess file. I just double-checked confirm that there is no index.html page in my hard files (pre-FTP), nor on the live FTP file list.

    Any other thoughts while I hit up my hosting service for some added support?

    Thanks for working through this with me.

    Thread Starter stenphen

    (@stenphen)

    18 years ago

    moshu, I have the following file content (and haven’t touched it previously) on the blog setup for .htaccess:

    # 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

    Thread Starter stenphen

    (@stenphen)

    18 years ago

    I’m at a loss… any other suggestions out there?

    Thread Starter stenphen

    (@stenphen)

    18 years ago

    moshu, did I lose you? anyone else up for taking a stab?

    Thread Starter stenphen

    (@stenphen)

    18 years ago

    If possible, someone please submit a response before I have to blow this setup out and reinstall….

    Much appreciated.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    18 years ago

    I don’t think you will fix this – like Moshu said – without figuring out how you are getting the index.html.
    What uri do you have in admin -> Options -> General?

    Thread Starter stenphen

    (@stenphen)

    18 years ago

    WordPress address (URI): http://winningman.com/blog

    blog address (URI): http://winningman.com/blog

    Should that be: http://winningman.com/blog/index.php ?

    OR

    http://blog.winningman.com/ (it is set as a subdomain) ??

    Thread Starter stenphen

    (@stenphen)

    18 years ago

    Crap — I’m such a newbie… changed the URI settings to these possibilities and now it’s officially screwed up. (as you will see)…

    Thread Starter stenphen

    (@stenphen)

    18 years ago

    Any final thoughts for me on this issue before I wipe the slate clean and start over?

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years ago

    You can always fix the URI values if you have access to phpMyadmin, by following this tutorial:
    http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/
    Don’t put “phantasy” values: use the exact location! No file names at the end, just directory without trailing slash.

    Thread Starter stenphen

    (@stenphen)

    18 years ago

    Thanks moshu… did you see my post above?
    Posted: 2006-04-28 12:49:13

    the URI for both the blog itself and the WordPress address were both set to: winningman.com/blog … that contains no phantasy values. I wondered though if (since it is setup as a subdomain) if that might affect it — it’s subdomain address is: blog.winningman.com … would that cause any URI conflicts?

    Thanks in advance.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years ago

    If that is a real subdomain, i.e. NOT redirecting to a subfolder… then the values are NOT correct.
    Note: In my experience WP doesn’t like redirected subdomains either!

    Sorry, by “phantasy values” I meant sometimes people put there values that don’t really exist, but they would like their blog to show there. Without making the proper modifications that usually doesn’t work šŸ™‚

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