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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing WordPress on WindowsActually, I had to resort to modifying several of the PHP scripts in WordPress, essentially making use of the
siteurlvariable as a means to eliminate the 404’s I was getting. For whatever reason some pages worked without a hitch while others failed to load the proper page whenever I clicked on a certain function, say, update changed options, etc. Apparently some server variables were either blank or not providing the information the WP scripts expected. I am using a little known web server, ProtoNova and host from my home computer network so I should have expected to have to make changes accordingly. I will, however, look into the newer version of PHP.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing WordPress on WindowsAt long last I resolved the problem I encountered with WordPress and my particular system. I am using a web server called ProtoNova http://www.slproweb.com/ which currently runs on Windows OS. Note that the author is currently working to port this and other software to Linux. At any rate WordPress seemed to identify ProtoNova as IIS which it is not. I tested commenting out the following code in wp-settings
// Fix for IIS, which doesn't set REQUEST_URI
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = ( isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ? $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] . (( isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) ? '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] : '')));
After commenting out the above code WordPress seems to be working without a hitch. If there is a better way to do this, please advise. I don’t know the criteria which WordPress uses to determine the kind of server on whihc it runs but I’m sure there is a better way to set this information than what I’ve done here.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing WordPress on WindowsI started with the “Blakely” zip but just could not get anything to work with that. I read on the site that the problems I experienced with that particular build were somewhat resolved with one of the nightly builds – 04/15/2004. Starting with that build I have managed to install WP but with all of the caveats mentioned in my first posting. I just tangoed with 04/20/2004 with pretty much the same results. I can set up WP such as it is and provide a URL to the site if that will help. http://www.tomarie.tzo.com/wordpress
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing WordPress on WindowsI have tried a variety of PHP Blog scripts with essentially the same difficulties. I believe the problems I have had are related to the mod_rewrite on Apache servers. The web server I am using doesn’t support that which is why I get WP installed and partly working. Apparently mod_rewrite does some sort of page forwarding hence I get redirected which causes the page not found or server not found errors. If there were a way to toggle off mod_rewrite then WP might work without a hitch. Is this possible as I believe I saw in some of the install docs that mod_rewrite was optional? Since I ran into this problem I’ve checked out other Blog scripts and WP is by far the best one I’ve seen. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.