Title: Web Master's Replies | WordPress.org --- # Web Master [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Please Help ! 404 errors for index.php, 403 errors for uploads](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-404-errors-for-indexphp-403-errors-for-uploads/) * Thread Starter [Web Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * (@web-master) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-404-errors-for-indexphp-403-errors-for-uploads/#post-1362875) * Hello again ESMI, * And again, Thank you very much for your help. * I don’t have that is my root .htaccess file…. * it contains only : * # -FrontPage- * IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* Options +FollowSymlinks * order deny,allow deny from all allow from all order deny,allow deny from all AuthName hotgaylinks.net AuthUserFile /home/hotgayli/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd AuthGroupFile /home/ hotgayli/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp * BUT, after emptying cache, my permalinks seem to be working just fine since I removed “tags” from the code… I am just using this : /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/% category%/%postname%/ and it seems to be fine… * HOWEVER, there does seem to be some directory confusion at some point, I am receiving a billion e-mails telling me : * “A user tried to go to [http://www.hotgaylinks.net/gay_porn_blog/gay_porn_blog/wp-content/themes/btEX/BTextended/images/feed.gif](http://www.hotgaylinks.net/gay_porn_blog/gay_porn_blog/wp-content/themes/btEX/BTextended/images/feed.gif) and received a 404 (page not found) error. It wasn’t their fault, so try fixing it. They came from [http://www.hotgaylinks.net/gay_porn_blog/”](http://www.hotgaylinks.net/gay_porn_blog/”); * OBVIOUSLY, the problem is at : [http://www.hotgaylinks.net/gay_porn_blog/gay_porn_blog/wp-content/](http://www.hotgaylinks.net/gay_porn_blog/gay_porn_blog/wp-content/) * (/gay_porn_blog/gay_porn_blog/) perhaps the problem is theme related ? but something somewhere is trying to find my WordPress folder “gay_porn_blog” one directory deeper than it is… * BUT I finally got the permalinks to work correctly… so I am, as always, * LOST & CLUELESS. * any ideas ? thank you for your help. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Please Help ! 404 errors for index.php, 403 errors for uploads](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-404-errors-for-indexphp-403-errors-for-uploads/) * Thread Starter [Web Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * (@web-master) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-404-errors-for-indexphp-403-errors-for-uploads/#post-1362847) * I am wondering now… should I have this in my .htaccess file ? it comes from the. htaccess just inside my domain.net/ and my blog is my_domain.net/myblog/ : * # -FrontPage- * IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* Options +FollowSymlinks * order deny,allow deny from all allow from all order deny,allow deny from all AuthName hotgaylinks.net AuthUserFile /home/hotgayli/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd AuthGroupFile /home/ hotgayli/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp * is this bit out of place perhaps ? * best wishes, clueless * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Please Help ! 404 errors for index.php, 403 errors for uploads](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-404-errors-for-indexphp-403-errors-for-uploads/) * Thread Starter [Web Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * (@web-master) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-404-errors-for-indexphp-403-errors-for-uploads/#post-1362846) * Hello again, * well this is getting more and more frustrating… * NOW, * even this permalink is no longer working : /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%category%/% postname%/ * and now, without changing anything is IS leading to my post, but with the link: [http://www.hotgaylinks.net/gay_porn_blog/2010/01/28/ethnic/black/tags/gay-latino-studs-three-jock-sex-latin-hunks/](http://www.hotgaylinks.net/gay_porn_blog/2010/01/28/ethnic/black/tags/gay-latino-studs-three-jock-sex-latin-hunks/) * so more confusion : why does “tags” show up in the link when I remove `%tags%/` from my link… ? * anyway, this is quite a challenge. Thank you again for your patience and your help ! * best wishes, * clueless * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Please Help ! 404 errors for index.php, 403 errors for uploads](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-404-errors-for-indexphp-403-errors-for-uploads/) * Thread Starter [Web Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * (@web-master) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-404-errors-for-indexphp-403-errors-for-uploads/#post-1362843) * Hi esmi, thank you SO MUCH for your help ! my blog is here : [http://www.hotgaylinks.net/gay_porn_blog/](http://www.hotgaylinks.net/gay_porn_blog/) and yes, I have tried playing with the permissions and that changed nothing…. there seems to be alot of directory confusion, permalink and .htaccess confusion… It all seems to be the same problem, so here are the symptoms of what seems to be one and the same problem : I am trying to use this custom structure : * `/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%category%/%tags%/%postname%/` * or * `/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%category%/%tags%/%postname%/` * they do not work, however for some reason, if I remove %tags%/, this DOES work: `/% year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%category%/%postname%/` * HOWEVER, the permalink settings page tells me “You should update your .htaccess now.” * and to add this : * ``` RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /gay_porn_blog/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /gay_porn_blog/index.php [L] ``` * which is exactly what I am using… so there seems to be a problem with directory structures ? BTW, I also have this in the .htaccess file : * ``` # -FrontPage- IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* Options +FollowSymlinks order deny,allow deny from all allow from all order deny,allow deny from all AuthName hotgaylinks.net AuthUserFile /home/hotgayli/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd AuthGroupFile /home/hotgayli/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /gay_porn_blog/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /gay_porn_blog/index.php [L] # END WordPress # BEGIN WPSuperCache RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /gay_porn_blog/ AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.* RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(Android|2.0\ MMP|240x320|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|hiptop|IEMobile|iPhone|iPod|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.0|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|Playstation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|Windows\ CE|WinWAP).* RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/gay_porn_blog/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/gay_porn_blog/$1/index.html.gz -f RewriteRule ^(.*) /gay_porn_blog/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/gay_porn_blog/$1/index.html.gz [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.* RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(Android|2.0\ MMP|240x320|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|hiptop|IEMobile|iPhone|iPod|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.0|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|Playstation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|Windows\ CE|WinWAP).* RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/gay_porn_blog/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/gay_porn_blog/$1/index.html -f RewriteRule ^(.*) /gay_porn_blog/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/gay_porn_blog/$1/index.html [L] # END WPSuperCache RewriteRule ^post/([0-9]+)?/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?p=$1&page=$2 [QSA] ``` * Again, Thank you for your help, I have been turning in circles for weeks ! * best wishes, * clueless webmaster * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [“Bad Link To” error e-mails : Permalink related ? Help ! I’m a NEWBIE](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-link-to-error-e-mails-permalink-related-help-im-a-newbie/) * Thread Starter [Web Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * (@web-master) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-link-to-error-e-mails-permalink-related-help-im-a-newbie/#post-1347038) * Hoping there is someone who cares and can help, * samboll’s above suggestion did solve the problem with the “Bad Link To ….” e- mails… * however, the Permalinks Settings page asks me to add this : RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /gay_porn_blog/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!- f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /gay_porn_blog/index.php [ L] * I have followed Samboll’s kind advice, and I no longer receive the error messages, but : I finally succeeded in making a first trial post to my ebryonic blog… “ succeeded” is a bit of an exageration… * 2 things : * 1) when I click on the link of this post, in my blog I immediately get the error:“ The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server. * Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips- rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.2.10 Server at [http://www.XXXX.net](http://www.XXXX.net) Port 80 * 2) when I try to associate an image to this post, when I try to upload an image from the “Edit” this “Post” area, I get this message : The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/domain/public_html/my_blog/wp-content/uploads. * I have played with all of the .htaccess files, giving them all maximum authorizations, that does not work… * I have uploaded the image to a totally unblog related directory on the same server, which WordPress accepted, but will not show in my blog… * when I click on the link that concerns my post I get the above mentioned : “The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server. * Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips- rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.2.10 Server at [http://www.XXXX.net](http://www.XXXX.net) Port 80 * It would seem to be a series of .htaccess problems.. but I am totally lost here can anyone please, PLEASE, help me ? * clueless webmaster * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [“Bad Link To” error e-mails : Permalink related ? Help ! I’m a NEWBIE](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-link-to-error-e-mails-permalink-related-help-im-a-newbie/) * Thread Starter [Web Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * (@web-master) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-link-to-error-e-mails-permalink-related-help-im-a-newbie/#post-1347004) * Please Help ! * now I’m not sure this is resolved… (I am no longer receiving e-mails warning me of bad links in the blog.. I just have a billion… * I am using AskApache Crazy Cache 2.0 and since I am still getting alot of useless links to 404 errors (related I believe to earlier trial posts, since deleted)… * I have tried to Delete the Entire Cache with Crazy Cache. I am getting errors that look like this : rename(/home/…/public_html/my_blog/wp-content/cache/,/ home/…/public_html/my_blog/wp-content/cache.old/) [function.rename]: Permission denied in /home/…/public_html/my_blog/wp-content/plugins/askapache-crazy-cache/ askapache-crazy-cache.php on line 299 Crazy Cache Tools * when I try to delete Super-Cache I get this : “/wp-content/cache/supercache. old/) [function.rename]: No such file or directory in … wp-content/plugins/askapache- crazy-cache/askapache-crazy-cache.php on line 320” * When I try to delete WP-Cache (always with Crazy Cache plugin) I get this : Warning: rename(/home/…/public_html/my_blog/wp-content/cache/meta/,/home/…/public_html/ my_blog/wp-content/cache/meta.old/) [function.rename]: No such file or directory in /home/…/public_html/my_blog/wp-content/plugins/askapache-crazy-cache/askapache- crazy-cache.php on line 309 Crazy Cache Tools * is this all related to the same .htaccess file ? do i need to add something else? * Thank you for your help. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [PLease help ! changing sponsor banners ? categories ?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-changing-sponsor-banners-categories/) * Thread Starter [Web Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * (@web-master) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-changing-sponsor-banners-categories/#post-1350099) * yes, I do… I am wondering if I should be clearing cache after trashing previous posts or something ? it is trying to link to things from former posts ? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [“Bad Link To” error e-mails : Permalink related ? Help ! I’m a NEWBIE](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-link-to-error-e-mails-permalink-related-help-im-a-newbie/) * Thread Starter [Web Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * (@web-master) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-link-to-error-e-mails-permalink-related-help-im-a-newbie/#post-1346971) * Sam you are a God ! Thank you ! since following your advice I have not received a single error e-mail and it looks like I can perhaps actually get to work on my blog… thank you…. * Actually, I have another question which may be a bit “off topic” but could you kindly tell me why my pages take so long to load ? is this normal ? anything I can do to speen things up ? I work on a pretty fast Mac with a prett fast internet connextion but my blog loads too slowly…. * thank you again for your help ! * and happy year of the tiger ! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [“Bad Link To” error e-mails : Permalink related ? Help ! I’m a NEWBIE](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-link-to-error-e-mails-permalink-related-help-im-a-newbie/) * Thread Starter [Web Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * (@web-master) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-link-to-error-e-mails-permalink-related-help-im-a-newbie/#post-1346668) * Wow Sam ! that was quick ! and it seems to have worked… not quite sure yet because I seem to receive tens of e-mails at a certain moment, or time, and then they stop… and then it starts again… but since I followed your sacred instructions I have not received a single link error e-mail message… I’m guessing you’ve delt with this before ! * Thank you & Happy New Year ! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [target=”_blank”](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/target_blank-4/) * Thread Starter [Web Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/web-master/) * (@web-master) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/target_blank-4/#post-1217048) * hello Gene and thank you so much for your response ! 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