Permalink issue or .htaccess? Or something else?

  • captainmorgan

    (@captainmorgan)


    16 years, 9 months ago

    Essentially, if I leave the permalink settings on Default (?p=123) my whole site works fine (wordpress 2.8.4): pages and posts (both numbered in the hundreds) show up accordingly. The second I change it to anything else other than Default, they come up not found.

    I monitored the root of the installation because I have it set up to show a static front page and then redirect to the /wordpress folder for the administration (found in the Settings > Reading panel). In the root of the installation, .htaccess is changed every time I select and save a permalink setting, so I don’t think I have a permissions issue.

    Here’s what my .htaccess says when I set it to Default:

    # BEGIN WordPress

    # END WordPress

    When I set to anything else besides Default, say.. Month and name, it changes to:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    Which basically says that WordPress is able to write to .htaccess just fine… index.php is also found within both the root of the installation and the /wordpress folder. I copied over to the root after reading a Codex page here on
    giving WP its own directory.

    I also receive no errors whatsoever from the Dashboard upon saving the permalink structures.

    Further, it doesn’t make a difference when I tail -f -n error.log, in /var/log/apache/, with either setting to Default or Month and name, the report back is “File does not exist:” but then why would it? Everything is served dynamically in either setting. And as I said earlier, when it’s set to Default, my hundreds of pages are served without an issue…

    This is a huge problem for me… can anyone offer any insight?

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  • pinoyca

    (@pinoyca)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    mod_rewrite is not installed. Google ‘install mod_rewrite’ for instructions.

    I hope this helps.

    Thread Starter captainmorgan

    (@captainmorgan)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    Although mod_rewrite was not initially installed I proceeded to successfully install it via a2enmod (I checked /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ and it’s there like it should be), and yet after restarting apache2 and clearing out all the browsing cache, history, cookies, etc.. the same problem is persisting.

    pinoyca

    (@pinoyca)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    Add a RewriteLog directive and add some “wrong” Rewrite directives and check if mod_rewrite logs anything.

    Let us know.

    Thread Starter captainmorgan

    (@captainmorgan)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    Pinoy, I’m not sure what you mean by wrong directives… but changing the WP and Blog urls to not include www seemed to work. After subtracting ‘www’ from the Settings > General, every permalink and default structure works.

    I found this idea from searching for a different problem (which is still unfixed at the moment):
    Mike’s WP Plugins: Blank Page after Posting Comments

    I’m really not interested in messing around further with apache configs, even though I can tell it to write to a log… but they were copied over from a previously working server. There’s just some minor glitch that I’m overlooking or maybe the new upgrade did something to make it not like ‘www’.

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