WP 2.9.2, WP Super Cache, Permalinks, .htaccess, Comments

My hosting account is with GoDaddy (Linux). I installed WordPress a month or so ago into a subdirectory of my website (http://essencelifecoaching.com/blog/). Yesterday, I updated the WordPress version to 2.9.2 and I installed the the Super Cache plugin.

I found two problems so far: 1) Permlink Structure Error and 2) Posting a Comment functionality is broken. WP is looking for wp-comments-post.php in the root directory (http://essencelifecoaching.com/wp-comments-post.php) not the blog directory (http://essencelifecoaching.com/blog/wp-comments-post.php).

My WP Super Cache Manager page has a error notification:

“Permlink Structure Error

A custom url or permalink structure is required for this plugin to work correctly. Please go to the Permalinks Options Page to configure your permalinks.”

I’m using the default setting in the Permalinks. How do I deal with the Permlink Structure Error?

My .htaccess file is below, and the file has the following permissions: 1) Web user permissions = Read 2) Owner permissions = Read, Write.

# BEGIN WPSuperCache
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(2.0\ MMP|240×320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800).*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/essencelifecoaching/blog/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/blog/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /essencelifecoaching/blog/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/blog/$1/index.html.gz [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(2.0\ MMP|240×320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800).*
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/essencelifecoaching/blog/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/blog/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /essencelifecoaching/blog/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/blog/$1/index.html [L]
</IfModule>
# END WPSuperCache
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress

It seems that if I enter the Permalinks Settings page w/o even re-setting anything, the .htaccess file is edited by WordPress and the 3 statements in between the # BEGIN WordPress and # END WordPress are deleted.

This causes an error statement in the WP Super Cache settings page that states:

“Mod Rewrite rules cannot be updated!
You must have BEGIN and END markers in /home/content/n/p/d/npdeguzman/html/essencelifecoaching/blog/.htaccess for the auto update to work. They look like this and surround the main WordPress mod_rewrite rules:
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress”

So, I re-edited the .htaccess file and added back the 3 statements.

I’m kind of stuck at this point.

Thanks in advance for your help on these two things.

Noel