Spindler

Hello Clayton James,

Yes It appears that way… However, this is not my first attempt in setting up this server. My first attempted used the var/www directory. When I first started to set it up everything seamed ok but then I started to develop some security and system update issues that caused more grief then I wanted and I eventually had to format the drive and start over again with a fresh install. I need to avoid this from happening again so I want to spend just a little more time in investigating the issues and all possible solutions before I open a new security/config vulnerability.

Thanks for your help. I am taking your ideas into consideration and will have to implement your idea if I cannot overcome this pointing issue.

Spindler

Thanks a lot. This has helped assign my USER name to each directory and file.

However, wordpress is still pointing to the var directory. Not really sure how to correct this. i attempted to upload a file and this is the error I see.

“picture.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error
Unable to create directory /var/www/html/wp-content/uploads/2011/02. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

To answer your questions.

1. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome 2.30.2. I installed a LAMP server using the Ubuntu Software center. I am also running vftp. I installed GNome, LAMP and vftp using the software center.

2. I have 9 websites. Each one uses a different wordpress version. Some are old. I originally had the sites on a hosting service and I copied the files over. Some of the sites I made from scratch on this server. I assume all are displaying this problem. Most of the sites are work in progress or archive. I did not use apt-get, synaptic or a package management system.

3. I am only concerned about one website right now. If I can get it fixed then I will apply the change to the rest of my sites and see what happens. If the fix does not work on the secondary sites it is not a big deal. I really need it on my primary site.

4. Yes I am using the virtual server managed by Apache2. The virtual host file points to the home/USER/WEBSITE directory. It looks like it works ok. There is nothing pointing to the var directory. so I do not know why wordpress wants to update that location.

Thank you very much this solved my problem. 🙂

I now have my permalink working as required.

So I was able to positively determine that mod-rewrite in not enabled on my machine. I was able to look at the phpinfo file and it was not listed in the apache2 list of mods installed.

I took a look at the Using permalink page mentioned by t-p. This helped alot.

I found an article that is suppose to tell me how to enable mod_rewrite. http://www.tutorio.com/tutorial/enable-mod-rewrite-on-apache

When I am attempting to enable the mod_rewrite….I am looking for the httpd.conf file but I do not know where it is. I thought it would be in the etc apache2 directory. I did find a file there but it did not contain any information….It is possible i could have created it myself.

Does any one know of a better source to explain how to enable mod_rewrite?

This is helpful….To bad it is not in the setup instructions someplace.

I was able to set the user and group for all of the necassary files. So now I do not need to use 777 to change the .htaccess…..This is very nice.

Ofcourse….changing the permissions did not solve my permalink issue. The problem still remains that when I use the default setting I can see the pages correctly even though the slug is in correct.

I am not sure what else I could possible do to correct this issue. I am thinking wordpress does not like the way I installed 3.0.1 At least now the error I see is affecting all of my sites on my machine.

OK… I agree. I am having some problems with the Linux setup…..What do you think I should check?

Could it be a problem with a permission setting. The only time I can get wordpress to update the .htaccess file is when I set the permission to 777. This tells me that WordPress does not have any user or group permissions.

Do you know how I can change the permission of wordpress so it has a user level permission?

I tried a new test to determine what might be happen.

I created a new page using wordpress `”New Page”. I create a test page. While it was under construction I was able to “preview” the page. WordPress created a new test URL link to the site. It was of the form http://www.XXX.com/?page_id=2191&preview=true

HOWEVER…..When I went and published the page the url changed to the expected address. Again the page url that was created appears like this:
http://www.XXX.com/test/ However, the content shows a 404 error.

I should also mention that the 404 error is only text . the theme of the website is not visible.