Plugin Author
Yani
(@yaniiliev)
Yes, this is a “feature” we introduced in the latest version of the plugin.
It will detect if your web server supports pretty permalinks and when it does not, we will set the default permalink structure so your website continues to work.
Strange – my hosting environment certainly does support custom permalinks. I’ve just been making sure to reset to what they were on the site prior to backup. It’s an extra step thats critical to remember, but not a deal breaker.
Thanks for the info!
This does NOT make it simply “just” work. What it does do is to lock yo the admin if you have that set to hidden. Awful feature! Who thought of this? Please fix it. It’s a terrible messup.
Plugin Author
Yani
(@yaniiliev)
Strange – my hosting environment certainly does support custom permalinks. I’ve just been making sure to reset to what they were on the site prior to backup. It’s an extra step thats critical to remember, but not a deal breaker.
Thanks for the info!
Do you know what webserver you are using?
We are checking only for 2 servers, Apache and Microsoft IIS.
You’re not looking for Nginx? This environment is Apache, however it is a cloudhosting environment with shared resources, and there might be a Ngnix based load balancer in front of these sites.
Plugin Author
Yani
(@yaniiliev)
Yes, we are not checking for NGINX because it supports pretty permalinks without any additional modules.
I think you have a LB that is routing the traffic while the server is using apache without mod_rewrite. I will think of ways to avoid it.
Thanks for bring this to our attention.
