Title: 2011 posts view == bad URL Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # 2011 posts view == bad URL * Resolved [ghe2001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghe2001/) * (@ghe2001) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/) * When I click on the name of a post, I get a URL to a directory that doesn’t exist. They appear fine on the home page. In admin, edit finds them, but view does not. The problem is the URL being generated by the PHP. * I haven’t been able to find anything about this problem in the codex, and I’ve asked in the Debian Users Group, also to no avail. * Any help with tracking down this problem will be greatly appreciated — I’m a newbie, but I think it must be something wrong in my config… Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841428) * Can you post your url so we can your site and help you. * Thread Starter [ghe2001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghe2001/) * (@ghe2001) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841431) * [http://interface.slsware.com](http://interface.slsware.com) — I think. It’s very new. * The bad url is something like: /blog/blog/2012/06/21/test2/ * It should have only one ‘blog/’. * Let me know if you’d like to see the Apache2 config… * [Colin Murphy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colin-murphy/) * (@colin-murphy) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841432) * Have you tried flushing the rewrite rules. You can do this by going to Settings- > Permalink and click “Save Changes”. * If doesn’t work you should try deactivate all your plugin’s and revert to the twenty eleven theme and see if the problem has been resolved. * [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/) * (@1nexus) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841433) * Go to your host’s cPanel and see where you have setup WordPress. I think it is a case of wrong directory settings. * Read the instructions and follow it. [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory) * Thread Starter [ghe2001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghe2001/) * (@ghe2001) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841445) * I don’t have cPanel. * In the Settings/General panel, both the WP Address and Site Address are [http://interface.slsware.com/blog](http://interface.slsware.com/blog)( I’m guessing that one of those is the problem). And I’m sorry, but I don’t really know what those mean or how they are used. * The Debian install package puts WP very much in its own directory: /usr/share/ wordpress, and the config files in /etc/wordpress. * The Apache2 config has a file, ‘blog/’, in /var/www, and links that to /use/share/ wordpress. * Thread Starter [ghe2001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghe2001/) * (@ghe2001) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841447) * Colin, * Resetting the Permalink->SaveChanges didn’t do anything. I’ll look into the rest of your suggestion… * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841449) * It may be because you using blog as directory name. In settings>>>>General change blog in url to something else and then using ftp change directory name blog to the same name. and reset your permalinks. * Thread Starter [ghe2001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghe2001/) * (@ghe2001) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841534) * Bingo!! * My .htadmin was all wrong, as Colin suspected. I just changed it to what WP-Admin recommended, and that fixed it. * Thank you all very much. * Thread Starter [ghe2001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghe2001/) * (@ghe2001) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841535) * Why I Seem To Be An Idiot… * I’m a retired computer geek. I have a degree in computer science, and I’ve worked with computers for more than 20 years. I was a reasonably capable admin and programmer. * A couple years ago, I had a bicycle accident that significantly damaged my brain. I lost all my passwords, a lot of the *nix commands, and several points of IQ. I’ve been recovering, but I’m not all better yet — I notice that I seem to be getting smarter, but I’m told this can take quite a long time. * I’m writing here because so many of you responded to my plea of help, and you got me to figure out how to fix it. * Thread Starter [ghe2001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghe2001/) * (@ghe2001) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841536) * Make that my .htaccess that was bent. Sorry. * [Colin Murphy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colin-murphy/) * (@colin-murphy) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841546) * No problem I’m glad I could help. * Thread Starter [ghe2001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghe2001/) * (@ghe2001) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841550) * Done! Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘2011 posts view == bad URL’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 12 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [ghe2001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghe2001/) * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2011-posts-view-bad-url/#post-2841550) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics