what server os ? hosting provider, etc ? check to see if the server has the MS frontpage server extensions installed, if it does, that’s the source of the problem. see the codex permalinks section if it does for the cure.
Thread Starter
madsen
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Hi chradil
Here are the specs (sorry)…
https://www.needhost.dk/producttable/
…Looks like Frontpage server extensions are installed.
I checked out the codex permalinks section, but I’m not tech savy to say the least, and I’m not quite sure how to (or if it necsessary) create a .htacess-file or what it should say…or where to place it exactly…or wether my host has mod_rewrite. Actually…now I can’t even access my blog…I get the following message:
Server error!
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
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If someone (trustworthy) want’s to snoop around I could give you my username/password…Sorry, but as said, I’m really not very tech savy..:-/
Thread Starter
madsen
(@madsen)
Problem fixed…kinda…Kim Bach kindly (!!!!!) spent the whole morning looking into the problem and managed to fix it:
Running your own server software like WordPress usually works like a charm, but you didn’t stand a chance in this case, because the MySQL options table HAD been updated, and since WordPress kept regenerating INVALID rewrite rules when you entered the configuration setting, it was IMPOSSIBLE to fix using the WordPress Dashboard. That actually took me a while to figure out, and luckily most Internet providers with MySQL support have PhpMyAdmin installed, so I could easily fix the problem manually, and that’s really nice.
I actually learned something, I just couldn’t locate the permalink_structure in the options table – I figured this out quite quickly (well actually by looking at the PHP code – thank God for open source and scripting) – that something wrong had been persisted in the MySQL database. It turned out that PhpMyAdmin by default only displays the 30 first settings, and the permalink_structure option wasn’t listed on the first page.
There’s also an issue with my host doing some redirecting, which might to some part, explain why updating the permalink structure went haywire, but I haven’t yet figured out what exactly is going on.
Anyway…A big THANK YOU to Kim!!!!
Thanks for posting the fix, Madsen – would you mind marking the thread as “resolved” so that others with the same issue in the future will be able to find out how to solve it?
