I have found that any Apache re-writes does this. I have all HTTP requests to the wordpress and wp-admin directories rewritten to HTTPS and had the same issue. I did this to force login with SSL, and then have all the other directories rewritten back to HTTP.
I fixed it by putting the “WordPress address (URL)” to “https://www.mysite.tld/blogpath” in the options. (Note the httpS)
Thanks for the help, Jean-Luke. This put me on the right path to solving my own problem as well. I set up my host to take out the www in front of my site, and assumed that it would do it as well for wordpress. Not so much the case. I just took out the www on the options page and it worked.
I’ve been fiddling with php all weekend and all it took was a visit to the options page.
Thanks!
brie
Don’t feel stupid… it took me several days to figure it out!!
Since the last post, I’ve re-jigged the Apache rewrites so only calls to wp-login.php are forced to HTTPS and all others are rewritten to HTTP. I then put the “WordPress address (URL)” back to plain old HTTP and everything is still working.
It means I am now using SSL only for the login process and nothing else… as it should be to keep the server load as low as possible.
We are having the same (or similar, at least) issues w/ comments on our blog. Until about 3 months ago we were getting comments fine – no problems at all. All of a sudden, no comments, no email saying there is a comment awaiting moderation – nothing. Post a comment and it hangs on /wp-comment-post.php.
Akismet is catching all sorts of spam comments (on a daily basis) and holding them, but no legitimate comments are even being held.
It appears that if one is logged in, they can comment w/ no problems.
This is by far the best topic that I have found for this issue, but I am not sure about the .htaccess necessary and what it should state.
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I am still having problems with this. A reader of my blog just emailed me telling me that he doesn’t think his comment posted due to a bland screen after he tried to post his comments on http://www.jonathantreiber.com/wp-comments-post.php.
I tried to make the edits to the WordPress Address (URL) as mentioned about but nothing seems to work. Please help.
JT
hey,
in the last week i have been having the same problem-ish, when i try to leave a comment or someone who is not logged in tries to leave a comment, wordpress doesnt recognise the comment and just brings me back to the same screen as if i havent made the comment.
i have posted elsewhere but i have not gotten any responce so far.
Can anybody here be of help to me?
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