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citizenkeith
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

When I'm logged on, I can leave a comment. When I log off, I get "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria."
Only one person has successfully left a comment on my site. I have no idea what he did yet, but I find it odd.
http://www.citizenkeith.com
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Keith

Mark (podz)
Support Maven
Posted 7 years ago #

Hmm......I see that error too. Have you modified either 'wp-comments.php' or 'wp-comments.post.php' ?

citizenkeith
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

Podz,
No, I haven't edited either one.

citizenkeith
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

bump

Mark (podz)
Support Maven
Posted 7 years ago #

This is very odd....
I just posted (or rather not) a comment, and this appears in the address bar
"http://www.citizenkeith.com/index.php?
s=&author=Podz&comment_post_ID=547
&redirect_to=%2Farchives%2F2004%2F09%2F23%2F
time-to-smile%2F&email=tamba%40gmail.com&url
=www.tamba2.org.uk%2FT2&comment=test&submit=Say+It%21"
URL split so it displays (and a character removed from my email)
It's searching ?
I've not seen this before .........

citizenkeith
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

Where do I fill out the bug report? ;)

jonimueller
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

I just hopped over there to see what I could do. I got the same "Sorry, no posts matched..."
And after that, when I refreshed the page, every one of your post's contents had this nastygram:
Warning: Unknown modifier '/' in /web/script/khanlon/citizenkeith.com/wp-content/plugins/google-hilite.php on line 105
Warning: Unknown modifier 'n' in /web/script/khanlon/citizenkeith.com/wp-content/plugins/google-hilite.php on line 105
Warning: Unknown modifier 'a' in /web/script/khanlon/citizenkeith.com/wp-content/plugins/google-hilite.php on line 105
Warning: Unknown modifier '/' in /web/script/khanlon/citizenkeith.com/wp-content/plugins/google-hilite.php on line 105
Something -- perhaps on your web host's end? -- changed between the time that that original comment (by Etz) was left and now. Hope you can solve it!
Joni

citizenkeith
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

Thanks Joni. I sent an email to my server admin. I have no idea where to BEGIN trouble shooting this thing!

Mark (podz)
Support Maven
Posted 7 years ago #

You coud deactivate that plugin.
That should solve it ?

Anonymous
Unregistered
Posted 7 years ago #

Ok, I mispoke. I did have an idea where to begin troubleshooting: I tried disabling that plug-in, and the results were the same. Then I disabled all the others, and it still happened. :(

citizenkeith
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

Looks like it was some bad XHTML on my part. I tried to adapt my Blosxom template when I switched over to WordPress, and I guess I screwed up some WP template tags.
I think it's working now. Can somebody else test a Comment for me?

jonimueller
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

Well, it acts like it's going to let me post a comment, and when I press SUBMIT, I am taken back to your individual post. But no comments are sneaking through yet. I tried twice on your entry about Russ Meyer.
So something is still amiss, but at least it's not spitting out warnings anymore!

citizenkeith
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

I am moderating comments... they all came through fine. I'll turn off moderation and see what happens.

Anonymous
Unregistered
Posted 7 years ago #

I found I could temporarily solve this problem by deleting the "author" cookie and re-starting my browser (IE 6). Hope that helps figure this out. One other clue: I have two instances of WordPress on the same host and in the same domain. Perhaps the two instances are confusing one another since they'd both see the same cookie. ...doug

olleolleolle
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

Doug: Thank you for that one. I also run two WP installs on the same machine, and I experienced that same problem. Now they run rightly again.
Is running two WP installs on the same subdomain considered a bad practice?

plainsman
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

The Author cookie fixed it on one of my blogs.
I was having this same problem and 'only' with Firefox. The site worked in IE, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera.... etc...
So, when I deleted the "Author' cookie in Firefox, that made the site work again.
Many thanks for this thread, all of your answers, and the WP support forums because I was about to pull all my hair out. :o) And I don't have that many left!
Thank you.

AndreaRossato
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

To have a general solution for this problem just add
php_flag register_globals off
to .htaccess
Indeed the problem is caused by the php.ini directive
register_globals On
In this case cookies active in the domain where wordpress is installed will be used by wordpress to create the query to the database.
Andrea

Guymauve
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

Andrea,
I'm having the same problem. I'm a newbie and I'm not sure what I've done. Have a look: http://www.biglittleg.com. When I click on .htaccess to plug in your code suggestion, it tells me that no such file exists.
Help.
Thanks.

AndreaRossato
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

Hi Guymauve!
If I connect to your site I get an error message related to database connection problems due to problems in you wp-config.php file: please check it.
About the problem with cookies:
If you have access to the php configuration file (php.ini) check it for the line with:
register_globals = On
and change to
register_globals = Off
Then restar you web server.
Otherwise you can manually create a file named .htaccess in you wordpress installation directory (or let wordpress create it for you by setting some sort of permalink structure in Options -> Permalink) and insert in it the line:
php_flag register_globals off
Hope this is going to help.
Ciao
Andrea

Anonymous
Unregistered
Posted 7 years ago #

I'm running pmwiki and WordPress under the same domain.
pmwiki places the author cookie for my domain, and that makes WordPress misbehave (i.e. show nothing).
I have tried to add the php_flag register_globals off line to my .htaccess, but it doesn't solve the problem.
I guess I could add a (first) line to remove the author cookie to the WordPress index.php?!?

AndreaRossato
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

I would add a line at the begining of your header template (wp-content/themes/tyourthem/header.php) or, as you said, index php, such as:
unset($author);
let us know if this works.
Andrea

Anonymous
Unregistered
Posted 7 years ago #

Thanks Andrea, adding unset($author); to the top of my index.php made it work!
Allan

Anonymous
Unregistered
Posted 7 years ago #

Hi Andrea ... and Allan
I too have a PmWiki and Word Press installed on the same server and I am having the very same problem as described above.
Exactly where do I install the :
unset($author);
??? index.php of WordPress at the top of the page?
php and scripting is very new to me ...
Doc

AndreaRossato
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

Hi Doc,
first try inserting this line in you .htaccess file (in the wordpres directory):
php_flag register_globals off
if this does not solve your problem you can add
unset($author);
in index.php right below
<?php
or (better solution if you are using themes), in the header.php file of your theme.
Regards,
Andrea

Anonymous
Unregistered
Posted 7 years ago #

Hi Andrea ...
Excellent! The following worked perfectly.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
if this does not solve your problem you can add
unset($author);
in index.php right below
<?php
or (better solution if you are using themes), in the header.php file of your theme.
Regards,
Andrea
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Thank You for the help. I appreciated you getting back to me so quickly and especially for being so helpful to a newbie like myself.
Again ... Thank You and I hope you have a Happy Holidays.
Doc

GOBLUE14
Member
Posted 7 years ago #

This has me thoroughly confused as well. (Sorry that this is my second thread about this, I couldn't find this one again at first and didn't get any attention at the other spot, either.) I tried the "unset author" line, but I don't know if I had it in the wrong place, or what, but it didn't work. And I don't see my .htaccess file in my wordpress directory to make a change there.

I only have one version of wordpress installed, and comments worked fine one day and I get the "Sorry..." error two days later, from both IE6 and Firefox, with and without cookies.

Any help? Thanks!

echoleigh
Member
Posted 6 years ago #

I'm having the same problem. I have the post_level plugin and using Firefox, no one can comment on the private entries (I'm getting the "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." error). Please help! Thanks!

Mark (podz)
Support Maven
Posted 6 years ago #

echoleigh - have you been to the plugin authors site to see if others have had this ?
Are you sure that the people you want to comment are of a high enough level ?
Have you recently upgraded / changed the plugin ?

echoleigh
Member
Posted 6 years ago #

I did. Someone created a fix, but I couldn't download the php file for whatever reason. I ended up downgrading to 1.5.

travosaurus
Member
Posted 6 years ago #

I tried everything that has been suggested here. (Although, I may not have placed the "unset author" line in the right place.) However, after filling out the comments section, my users and I still get the "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." line.

I have no idea what to do.

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