Support » Plugin: Download Monitor » [Plugin: WordPress Download Monitor] Custom URL no longer works after upgrade to wp 3.3

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  • I have just experienced the same issue after being alerted by several users that my downloads are no longer working.

    All you get is a “Headers Sent” message on a white screen.

    WordPress 3.3.1 and DLM Version 3.3.5.4

    Any help on what could be the issue would be greatly appreciated:)

    Further Troubles…

    The next thing I did was go into the DLM configuration for custom download URL as I had it set as “/downloads/filename/” and simply resaved that without making any changes.

    I checked my .htaccess and the code that was previously there is now gone. Huh?

    So then I went back to the DLM custom URL screen and now the custom url of “downloads” is missing, as well as the selection of “filename”.

    I have gone through the custom URL saving process several times and the changes no longer hold.

    Can you PLEASE take a look at this WP thread and offer some troubleshooting steps?

    Further details in my troubleshooting…

    I’m wondering if the new Permalink changes in WordPress could be affecting things. Here’s why I’m wondering…

    In Otto’s explanation of changes he mentions that using /postname/ in a custom Permalink structure is no longer needed and instead the Postname permalink structure added in 3.3 should be used.

    On the site I have with DLM managing my downloads, I have a custom permalink structure of /%post_id%/%postname%/

    In the following comment, someone asks if the /%post_id%/ part is needed any longer. Otto’s answer is no.

    http://ottopress.com/2011/how-the-postname-permalinks-in-wordpress-3-3-work/comment-page-1/#comment-10308

    So, I’m left wondering (theorizing) that because I still have this custom structure activated, and specifically the /%postname%/ part…could that somehow be affecting the DML plugin’s ability to correctly save the configuration changes I am making.

    Additional question: If I change the custom structure to the new Postname structure that WP provides to see if this solves the issue with the DLM problem…what happens to all the URLs I have indexed that are using the /%post_id%/ portion?

    Will I need to setup some kind of 301 redirect for all of these?

    First things first though…I desperately need to figure out how to fix the DLM plugin to accept my custom URL changes.

    My issue with DLM is fixed…

    I don’t really know exactly what happened. What I do know is that for some reason my DLM htaccess rules were removed from my htaccess file somehow during the process of…

    1. Upgrading WP to 3.3 (unlikely)
    2. Resaving the Permalinks
    3. Resaving the DLM custom URLs (after they disappeared)

    This has been very strange and I wish I could better track down the actual cause in order to help others here (and the plugin dev and WP peeps).

    I’m experiencing the same thing. It is clear that there is a missing “/” in the link.

    <h3>What do I want? What am I worried about? (165)</h3>

    I’ve just reloaded the links but got the same thing.
    I’m not a programmer – I would love to know how to fix this.

    Okay that’s weird – I pasted in the “bad” code (without marking it out)
    and it works in my message above ? Huh?

    http://www.sharinghousing.com/downloadWant-Worried_SharingHousing.pdf”&#8216;

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