uncle-tom
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: CGI errorHi.
I have been in touch with my host company and they came back with the answer within 4 hours.
Their answer was “You are getting that error due to your permalinks settings in your WordPress configuration. You sohuld be able to turn these off. Permalinks require mod_rewrite which isn’t available on Windows. It is a Linux/Apache function only I’m afraid.”
When I reset the permalinks to default all was fixed. So if you are on a Windows platform then permalink default would seem to be your only option.
I trawled the help forum and the WP documentation and at no point did I find any reference to platform capabilities. That’s not to say its not there just that I did not find it. In my humble opinion the permalink settings page should highlight the options by platform. Just a thought.
Now I have it working its a great product.
My hosting company is straight up and down and do what a lot of company’s don’t which is talk to end users not just techies. They also provide a service which in my experience is not that common. They are pipeten.com
Kind Regards
Uncle TomForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: CGI errorThis is doing my head in!
I am new to wordpress and have just installed wp 2.9.2 and right from the outset I am getting “The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers”
I was not to bothered to begin with. I thought that the forum would help me. I have tried several of the suggestions from changing the php version from 5x to 4x, removing the ./ or was it the /. from the index.php file and even changing the code in wp-db.php file. Nothing worked at all. Anyway I have reinstated it back to how it was and started a new cgi error search.
The penny then dropped that this error has been around for at least 2 years for loads of people.
Can one of the developers please help? Surely there must be a solution to this. I am not an expert in php at all but I am not daft. I am an end user trying to use a well praised piece of software. I would like to use it but do not know where to look next.
Please help
Kind Regards
Uncle Tom