About to give up on permalinks; final cry of help

I don’t know if this will help, but I have my permalinks set up like this:

/index.php/%postname%

That’s all that’s required. From there, I just use the postnames or pagenames in my links. After like a day of screwing around with permalinks, I found that was the easiest and most trouble-free way to go. I haven’t had problems since.

Forget mod_rewrite, Network Solutions will NOT enable it, period.

Yes, that’s a clear sign to move to a new hosting provider. Network Solutions my buttocks.

Anywho, what exactly are you entering into the “Structure” field. Are you entering anything into the “Category base” field? Since you have edited a few files in your current install, would you please install a brand-new, un-edited, and un-modified WordPress blog so that we can properly test this?

I just spent an hour trying to get permalinks to work. In the end, I deleted the .htaccess file from my blog directory, added /index.php/ to the permalink structure, and clicked the ‘Update permalinks button’. Finally it worked.

– Sean

P.S. I followed the same exact steps that I said above a couple times, and it didn’t work. I removed %category% from my permlink structure and it worked.

– Sean

Try WordPress Tip on Permalink Options.

This should address your problems.

Macmanx: This is my situation.

The domain /brachiza.fambracho.org points to the directory /htdocs/wordpress in my shared host. I have not edited any wordpress files, other than insert die() statements to see if particular code branches were being executed — those statements are all gone. That’s how I found out that the code I thought was doing the parsing is not being executed. So, it’s a virgin wordpress release I got about four days ago.

I had an .htaccess from when I was under the impression that Network Solutions-My-Ass indeed enabled mod_rewrite. I just deleted it (following forceagainstsomething’s suggestion) but got the same problem. An error page simply saying: ‘No input file specified’ — this has to be an error within PHP and not part of WordPress, right?

My feeling is that whatever code is supposed to parse the permalink (which in my tests is /brachiza.fambracho.org/index.php/2005/07/24/hello-world/) is not being executed at all! Does anyone know WHERE is that code? Is there a way to put some sort of debugging statements — I’ve never worked with PHP before, I’m sorry, though I’ve worked with enough languages that I can guess what’s going on.

I don’t have anything in the categories section of permalinks (one thing at a time, I guess).

The no-permalinks case works, i.e., /brachiza.fambracho.org/index.php?p=1 will return the first (and only so far) posting. But if I use /index.php/%post_id% as the permalinks structure, /brachiza.fambracho.org/index.php/1 does NOT work — as expected, I suppose.

If anyone tries those URLs, you’ll see that the blog is in Spanish. I have only touched the theme files to do that. I can put back the ‘default’ theme if you’d like, and you’ll see that the errors are identical.

Thanks again to all.

Rafael Bracho

Try the solution that Angsuman posted above. It looks promising.

Sorry but I went through the entire blog and there was nothing new there. I honestly cannot figure out why it doesn’t work, given that so many people have no problem using the /index.php/ work around.

Does anyone know where is the code that does the parsing? I’ll take it from there.

Rafael Bracho

Through some investigation, there is a work around to make this work with Network Solutions hosting services.

The key is to replace the first “^” on each RewriteRule line with a “/”. For those familiar with regular expressions, I know this is not an optimal fix but should work for most people the majority of the time. Network Solutions is investigating further to look into what is happening that the “^” is not working.

For example if you had the following:
RewriteRule ^categorias/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^categorias/(.+)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^archivos/author/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^archivos/author/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^archivos/author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^archivos/author/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA,L]

Simply change it to:
RewriteRule /categorias/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule /categorias/(.+)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule /archivos/author/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule /archivos/author/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule /archivos/author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule /archivos/author/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA,L]