Title: problem with the comment system
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# problem with the comment system

 *  [dventer007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dventer007/)
 * (@dventer007)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/)
 * I have got the theme PressRow activated right now and comments won’t go through.
   Due to 405 error and other time it says done but hangs up by wp-comment-post.
   php, but nothing happens or gets posted. Before the error I updated my wordpress
   to 2.2. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciate. All the options set right
   now allows comments to go through. So either it is the theme or wordpress? Not
   sure what to do as I want my comment system up and running, as it is vital to
   [My site – Venter](http://www.venter.ca).
 * Cheers Thanks for your help

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/#post-601269)
 * So do comments work if you temporarily change to the Default theme?
 * What version of WP were you running before the upgrade? Have you confirmed all
   your plugins work with the latest version?
 *  Thread Starter [dventer007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dventer007/)
 * (@dventer007)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/#post-601338)
 * No, comments don’t work if I change the theme to Default! I was running 2.1 when
   the first release of it came out.
 * You think it could be a plugin though? I’ll check that. But what are your thoughts,
   has there been any bugs like this in this release of wp?
 * Cheers Dave
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/#post-601339)
 * Yeah, plugin is where I’d definitely start.I’m not familiar with an error like
   what you’re seeing (and I’ll confess I didn’t do much searching here in the forums…)
 * You might check: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.2](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.2)
 * Make sure you have latest versions of all your plugins.
 * Disable ’em all. Do comments work? Enable one by one checking comments as you
   go.
 *  Thread Starter [dventer007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dventer007/)
 * (@dventer007)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/#post-601398)
 * Checked to see if it was the plugins when i disabled them all but it wasn’t. 
   Where do you think I should go next anybody?
 *  Thread Starter [dventer007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dventer007/)
 * (@dventer007)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/#post-601400)
 * Doesn’t matter what theme I use either! Must be problem or bug with WP 2.2?
 *  [martinw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinw/)
 * (@martinw)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/#post-601410)
 * I have the same problem – comments act like they are going to work, but no comments
   are posted. Also, perhaps related, I can’t upload any files – again, it acts 
   like the files are uploaded, but they don’t show up in the upload manager or 
   in the uploads directory. (using 2.2.1)
 *  [martinw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinw/)
 * (@martinw)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/#post-601417)
 * When I switch to Classic theme, I get a 405 error from wp-comments-post.php: 
   This error (HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed) means that Internet Explorer was able
   to connect to the website, but the site has a programming error.
 * Indeed, looking at the server logs, when I click Submit, the server sees a POST,
   but 301 redirects it to wp-comments-post.php (right back to itself?) but it comes
   as a GET, and the error-checking at the top of wp-comments-post.php returns a
   405.
 * But, I I don’t understand why it redirects back to itself.
 *  Thread Starter [dventer007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dventer007/)
 * (@dventer007)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/#post-601420)
 * Is there any fix to this problem?
 *  [martinw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinw/)
 * (@martinw)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/#post-601434)
 * Yes, I think so. The problem seems to be that in the Options->General settings,
   I had the “WordPress address (URL):” and “Blog address (URL):” set to “[http://myblog.com&#8221](http://myblog.com&#8221);,
   instead of “[http://www.myblog.com&#8221](http://www.myblog.com&#8221); (I.e.,
   I didn’t have the “www.” in front of the domain.
 * Since I have my webserver set up to redirect myblog.com to [http://www.myblog.com](http://www.myblog.com),
   the redirect happened, causing a GET to be used instead of a POST (that seems
   like an odd thing for Apache to do, but so it seems).
 * Nonetheless, I made the change in my Options, and all seems well.
 * Best of luck.
 *  Thread Starter [dventer007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dventer007/)
 * (@dventer007)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/#post-601442)
 * Totally worked Bro! Thanks alot.
 *  [kalmness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kalmness/)
 * (@kalmness)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comment-system/#post-601507)
 * i had “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” checked, and that gave
   me the problem above. Once i unchecked it. everything worked. like martinw, it
   also had my apache server redirect subdomain.domain.com/wordpress to [http://www.mydomain.com](http://www.mydomain.com),
   not sure if that’s the reason that caused it though.

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