[wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on established WP install

Jamie Holly hovercrafter at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 21 20:32:55 GMT 2006 

They should be there. They are base options for Wordpress that actually
stores the permalink structure. These are the same values that are shown on
your permalinks page in the Category Base and Custom Structure fields
accordingly. Even if you select one of the pre-defined structures in the
Wordpress options, it will still appear in the Custom Structure field after
you click update, as it then updates that option in the database.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net

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[mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew
(vogelap)
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 4:14 PM
To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
Subject: RE: [wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on established WP
install

I went to /wp-admin/options.php, but searching for "category_base" and
"permalink_structure" both came up with no matches... I've got several
other files in /wp-admin/ that are options-*.php -- like discussion,
general, head, misc, permalink, reading, and writing -- could it be in
one of those?

-andrew vogel
Manager of Professional Programs
University of Cincinnati
College of Pharmacy 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com 
> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of 
> Jamie Holly
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:47 PM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: RE: [wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on 
> established WP install
> 
> Last option I can think of. Go to /wp-admin/options.php. Look for the
> following:
> 
> category_base (delete anything in this box)
> 
> permalink_structure Paste the following into that box:
> 
> /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
> 
> After that go to your options->permalinks page. You don't 
> need to click the update button, as it will do it 
> automatically for you.
> 
> This will set you back to the standard Date and name based 
> permalinks. See if that is causing problems for you.
> 
> I tried your .htaccess in one of my virtual hosts and it 
> worked fine. Of course you could have some plugin messing 
> with things so you might want to try and disable all of those 
> and re-enable them one by one trying things out.
> 
> 
> 
> Jamie Holly
> http://www.intoxination.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of 
> Vogel, Andrew
> (vogelap)
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:29 PM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: RE: [wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on 
> established WP install
> 
> I believe the problem existed prior to the inclusion of the 
> WPGallery stuff (even under previous versions of Fedora Core 
> and WordPress, I've always had "Almost Pretty" permalinks), 
> but I will remove it and try again just to be sure...
> 
> ... I removed it and got the 404 again. I don't believe it's 
> the WPGallery stuff in .htaccess.
> 
> -andrew vogel
> Manager of Professional Programs
> University of Cincinnati
> College of Pharmacy 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> > [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Jamie 
> > Holly
> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:22 PM
> > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > Subject: RE: [wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on 
> established 
> > WP install
> > 
> > Whenever you go to the permalinks page it does a 
> flush_rewrite rules, 
> > which basically rewrites the #begin Wordpress section in 
> .htaccess to 
> > what you have Wordpress permalinks set at. I noticed you were using 
> > other rewrites for gallery. Just a quick question - have you tired 
> > removing that section and seeing if that corrects it? I am not that 
> > great on rewrite rules so I could be overlooking something 
> in it that 
> > could be causing the problem.
> > 
> > Jamie Holly
> > http://www.intoxination.net
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> > [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf 
> Of Vogel, 
> > Andrew
> > (vogelap)
> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:07 PM
> > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > Subject: RE: [wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on 
> established 
> > WP install
> > 
> > Hrm. That didn't work. Extremely perplexing and more than a little 
> > frustrating!
> > 
> > Here's what I tried:
> > 
> > * backup WP database
> > * cd /var/www/html/
> > * mv .htaccess hta.org
> > * touch .htaccess
> > * chown .htaccess to webserver
> > * chmod 664 .htaccess
> > * pico /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
> > # First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of 
> > features.
> > #
> > <Directory />
> >     Options FollowSymLinks
> >     AllowOverride None
> > </Directory>
> > 
> > # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
> > <Directory "/var/www/html">
> >     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
> >     AllowOverride None <------ this is the line to be changed
> >     AcceptPathInfo On
> >     Order allow,deny
> >     Allow from all
> > </Directory>
> > [snip]
> > 
> > ...to...
> > 
> > [snip]
> > DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
> > # First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of 
> > features.
> > #
> > <Directory />
> >     Options FollowSymLinks
> >     AllowOverride None
> > </Directory>
> > 
> > # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
> > <Directory "/var/www/html">
> >     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
> >     AllowOverride All <------ this is what I changed the line to
> >     AcceptPathInfo On
> >     Order allow,deny
> >     Allow from all
> > </Directory>
> > [snip]
> > 
> > * service httpd restart
> > * pico /var/www/html/.htaccess -- verified that it had been 
> written to 
> > (it had)
> > * opened a webbrowser and pointed it to my page, verifying that the 
> > URL link of an article changed from 
> > "http://www.drewvogel.com/index.php/2006/08/18/system-strangen
> ess/" to "http://www.drewvogel.com/2006/08/18/system-> 
> strangeness/" (it had).
> > * I clicked the link and -- KABOOM! -- non-WP 404.
> > * I tried to roll-back -- 'mv hta.org .htaccess', re-add 
> "/index.php" 
> > to the permalink line, and restart the server, but it 
> remained broken. 
> > Once again, simply VISITING
> > Options->Permalink is enough to 'break' it.
> > 
> > What does WP write when Options->Permalink is displayed? Is 
> there some 
> > way to compare before and after database entries to see 
> what's getting 
> > changed? I had to empty and restore my WP database to get it back 
> > working.
> > 
> > -andrew vogel
> > Manager of Professional Programs
> > University of Cincinnati
> > College of Pharmacy
> >  
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> > > [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On 
> Behalf Of Jamie 
> > > Holly
> > > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 12:05 PM
> > > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > > Subject: RE: [wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on
> > established
> > > WP install
> > > 
> > > 
> > > AllowOverride All
> > > 
> > > That will fix it.
> > > 
> > > Jamie Holly
> > > http://www.intoxination.net
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> > > [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On 
> Behalf Of Handy
> > > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 12:04 PM
> > > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > > Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on
> > established
> > > WP install
> > > 
> > > I believe so, yes.  Unfortunately, not at a place where
> > it's easy to
> > > pop onto my server and check.
> > > 
> > > On 8/21/06, Vogel, Andrew (vogelap) <VOGELAP at ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > You may not be "Captain Obvious"...
> > > >
> > > > <Directory />
> > > >     Options FollowSymLinks
> > > >     AllowOverride None
> > > > </Directory>
> > > >
> > > > What SHOULD it be? "All"?
> > > >
> > > > -andrew vogel
> > > > Manager of Professional Programs
> > > > University of Cincinnati
> > > > College of Pharmacy
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> > > > > [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On
> > > Behalf Of Handy
> > > > > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 11:38 AM
> > > > > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > > > > Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Help needed with two issues on
> > > established
> > > > > WP install
> > > > >
> > > > > On 8/21/06, Vogel, Andrew (vogelap)
> > <VOGELAP at ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > <snip>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 2. I've got my Permalinks set to Custom ("Almost 
> Pretty") and 
> > > > > > "/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/". The goal
> > > > > is to get
> > > > > > rid of the "/index.php" from my permalinks to make them
> > > > > "Pretty". As
> > > > > > long as I do not visit Options->Permalinks, my site
> > > > > functions as expected.
> > > > > > However, if I VISIT Options->Permalinks, my site's
> > > permalinks stop
> > > > > > functioning unless I set them to Default (I don't even have
> > > > > to click
> > > > > > "Update Permalinks Settings"; simply visiting the
> > > > > Options->Permalinks
> > > > > > page breaks permalinks), which breaks internal links in my
> > > > > site. This
> > > > > > is 100% reproducible. The .htaccess file is 664 and
> > > > > writable by the server.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > </snip>
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm willing to be all wet here with the "Captain Obvious"
> > > > > post... but FC5 has AllowOverrides off by default in 
> the apache 
> > > > > configs.  Have you specifically re-enabled it?
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