colinbarrett
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .htaccess woesI concur with othellobloke’s post above. The “old” url consists of only the filepath within the root directory but the destination must consist of the full URL as it would be entered into a browser.
I recently had to manually update an htaccess file with a mass of 301 redirects after a static html (not WP) site redevelopment which took me an age.
Colin
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to provide an “access key” for a prepaid download?I’m doing a similar thing in that I’m giving access to certain assets via both a membership gateway and also by a coupon scheme similar to the one you’re proposing.
After a lot of research, I decided to install specialist “membership” software. The two most popular ones seem to be DLGuard and AMember. You can do exactly what you’re trying to achieve with such apps – it’s easy in DLG. It protects (ie: scrambles) the source URL and you can set a restriction on download numbers and attempts as well as protecting downloaders from passing the download link to their mates! I haven’t yet integrated with WP but I think it will be easy since you’re only dealing in links to protected folders/files on the same server which the software takes care of.
That said, I’m sure a nifty bit of php coding will do your job as well, so why not solicit some clever coder to write a simple (but secure) coupon-code gateway for you?
Colin
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 404 page after site URL changeShane
That did the trick! Thank you very much – you’ve saved me hours of hassle, all because of a stupid error.
Colin
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 404 page after site URL changeActually…… it isn’t! The index page is fine and the admin section is OK, but all other pages return a 404. I only discovered this after clearing the cache in Firefox. Dammit.
I’ll go back to the page you gave me and read further.
Colin
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 404 page after site URL changeEsmi – many thanks for the quick response. Whilst you were responding I’d actually found the same page (I didn’t perform the right search earlier)! The problem is now corrected thanks to the info right at the top of that page.
Thanks again.
Colin