Title: Cannot post comments. $HTTP_POST_VARS problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Cannot post comments. $HTTP_POST_VARS problem

 *  [jmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmac/)
 * (@jmac)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-comments-036http_post_vars-problem/)
 * Hey, this is re: [http://www.socialwrite.com](http://www.socialwrite.com) , which
   is running the latest wordpress install.
    When a user tries to leave a comment,
   from a page such as [http://www.socialwrite.com/archives/2004/01/29/backpackersxpress/](http://www.socialwrite.com/archives/2004/01/29/backpackersxpress/),
   they get a “Error: please type a comment.” each time. When I do a var dump on
   wp-comments-post, they variables just aren’t there. I have checked my site URL
   setting, as suggested in other posts, and it is proper. Does anyone have any 
   insights, I have been working on it for quite a while now, and haven’t managed
   a solution. – Jevon

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 *  Thread Starter [jmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmac/)
 * (@jmac)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-comments-036http_post_vars-problem/#post-33367)
 * bump — help, anyone?
 *  Thread Starter [jmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmac/)
 * (@jmac)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-comments-036http_post_vars-problem/#post-33904)
 * Still no help? Someone has to have some insight
 *  [Laughinglizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laughinglizard/)
 * (@laughinglizard)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-comments-036http_post_vars-problem/#post-33905)
 * 1) Check with your webhost
    2) Try enabling pop-up comments to see if those work.
   If that does work, look at #3 3) Is there some sort of a redirection going on?
   Is the real url of your website something other than [http://www.socialwrite.com](http://www.socialwrite.com)
   where socialwrite.com is a dummy html or php redirect page? For example: My server
   at [http://test.my-ip.com](http://test.my-ip.com) has my WP blog. I buy [http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)
   and have the registrar url redirect all traffic from [http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)
   to [http://test.my-ip.com](http://test.my-ip.com) In that case, all of WP will
   work fine except the comment post from the main index page.
 *  Thread Starter [jmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmac/)
 * (@jmac)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-comments-036http_post_vars-problem/#post-33906)
 * o.k. Here is what it was (this should be looked at).
    My Virtual host in Apache
   is set as [http://www.socialwrite.com](http://www.socialwrite.com), but my Base
   URL was entered as just socialwrite.com, so, because socialwrite.com was set 
   as an alias for [http://www.socialwrite.com](http://www.socialwrite.com) in my
   httpd.conf, so it was doing a rewrite (but I have never seen this cause a problem
   in losing $POST variables). – Jevon
 *  [Laughinglizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laughinglizard/)
 * (@laughinglizard)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-comments-036http_post_vars-problem/#post-33907)
 * That makes sense. The reason that a rewrite of a url breaks the comments is because
   of the structure of the index.php and the posting of comments. It really is a
   multiple redirect post (to make things look seamless to the user). Comments popup
   is a single post with no redirection and thus works. (did it work in your case?)
 *  Thread Starter [jmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmac/)
 * (@jmac)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-comments-036http_post_vars-problem/#post-33908)
 * No, the popup window didn’t work either. A little weird.

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 * Last reply from: [jmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmac/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-post-comments-036http_post_vars-problem/#post-33908)
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