Title: Pingbacks not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Pingbacks not working
* [mriedel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mriedel/)
* (@mriedel)
* [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-working-3/)
* Pingbacks don’t work for me, neither incoming nor outgoing. Enabling logging
in xmlrpc.php and making sure the logfile is word-writable produces nothing but
an empty logfile.
* My blog is on lighthttpd, using pretty permalinks and the following mod_rewrite
rules:
* ```
$HTTP["host"] =~ "mriedel\.org" {
url.rewrite-once = (
# Exclude some directories from rewriting
"^/([a-z]{2}/)?((wp-admin|wp-includes|wp-content|files)/.*)" => "/$2",
# Exclude .php files at root from rewriting
"^/([a-z]{2}/)?([^/]*\.php)" => "/$2",
# Handle permalinks and feeds (qTranslate)
"^/([a-z]{2})/(.*)$" => "/index.php/$2?lang=$1",
# Handle permalinks and feeds (no qTranslate or qTranslate default language)
"^/(.*)$" => "/index.php/$1"
)
}
```
* imo, those rules should cover xmlrpc.php. I can reach mriedel.org/xmlrpc.php
in the browser, so it should be fine.
* plugins installed and activate:
* – qTranslate
– all in one SEO pack – statPress – WP-Syntax – WP Security Scan
* Any help appreciated 🙂
* Edit: trackbacks don’t work either
* Edit2: an incoming testback test produced the following in the logfile:
* ```
2009-01-05 03:27:13 Input:
pingback.ping
http://smartyr.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/trackback-test/
http://mriedel.org/2009/01/05/another-pingback-test/
2009-01-05 03:27:13 Output: (PB) URL='http://mriedel.org/2009/01/05/another-pingback-test/' ID='66' Found='url_to_postid()'
2009-01-05 03:27:19 Input:
pingback.ping
http://smartyr.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/trackback-test/
http://mriedel.org/2009/01/05/another-pingback-test/
2009-01-05 03:27:19 Output: (PB) URL='http://mriedel.org/2009/01/05/another-pingback-test/' ID='66' Found='url_to_postid()'
```
* yet no trackback is shown.
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* Thread Starter [mriedel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mriedel/)
* (@mriedel)
* [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-working-3/#post-949588)
* bump
* Thread Starter [mriedel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mriedel/)
* (@mriedel)
* [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-working-3/#post-949749)
* bump
* [mog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mog/)
* (@mog)
* [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-working-3/#post-949755)
* I got an email from a MT blogger that has been getting dozens of pings from my
posts, one I posted Sunday which he has been getting pings for yesterday and
today when I didn’t edit it. When I checked, it showed it hadn’t pinged his blog
and the link was still in the send trackbacks spot of post page. Any clue why
this is happening?
* Thread Starter [mriedel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mriedel/)
* (@mriedel)
* [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-working-3/#post-949774)
* bump
* Thread Starter [mriedel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mriedel/)
* (@mriedel)
* [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-working-3/#post-949787)
* bump
* Thread Starter [mriedel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mriedel/)
* (@mriedel)
* [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-working-3/#post-949792)
* it’s not a plugin or theme problem. Pingbacks and trackbacks don’t even work
when i turn off all plugins and use the default theme. So it’s either a problem
with lighttpd or a bug in wordpress
* Thread Starter [mriedel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mriedel/)
* (@mriedel)
* [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-working-3/#post-949795)
* I’ve switched to apache to test it there – still no luck. On the edit post screen,
the correct URLs are listed as “already pinged” but neither incoming nor outgoing
pingbacks actually work. same for trackbacks.
* what can this possibly be?
* Thread Starter [mriedel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mriedel/)
* (@mriedel)
* [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-working-3/#post-949796)
* okay outgoing pingbacks seem to be working now (didn’t do anything, maybe it
just took some time) but still no luck on incoming ones.
* [11Mystics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/11mystics/)
* (@11mystics)
* [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-working-3/#post-949872)
* FWIW, I was having this same problem – I could send trackbacks but not receive
them. The problem for me was that I had a function in place that was blocking
the trackbacks. I forget where I got it, but this is what it is:
* function check_referrer() {
if (!isset($_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]) || $_SERVER[‘
HTTP_REFERER’] == “”) { wp_die( __(‘Please enable referrers in your browser,
or, if you\’re a spammer, bugger off!’) ); } }
* I think I got that from a Smashing Magazine article actually. Anyway, when I
blew that away, suddenly incoming trackbacks showed up on my articles.
* [dsextonj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsextonj/)
* (@dsextonj)
* [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-working-3/#post-949903)
* 11mystics,
* Which file do you find this function in?
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