Comments link only refreshes page

I know. It’s so frustrating. I am thinking maybe it has to do with the way I replaced the urls in the .sql file so I’ve been going over them again with a fine toothed comb but so far, no success. I’ll let you know what happens. Also thought about just deleting the database and wordpress installation, letting whe wordpress create the clean database tables and then entering just the input data by command line into mysql rather than uploading the whole database. Hm… we’ll see.

Well, none of that worked, so I am back to square 1. Actually, I’m at square negative 1 because I have had to complete delete wordpress (I had twisted it around so badly). I just don’t know what to do. I’ve used wordpress for almost a year and have learned a million things about what to do when and where, but this baffles me beyond reason and I have gotten to the point where I feel almost hopeless that I will ever be able to use my database again.

Please, is there anyone that could help us solve this problem?

Is it relating to the .htaccess file? What could it be?

ok, I’m an idiot. it figures that it was as simple as setting my permalink structure. I had never used the permalink edit option before, so it never dawned on me. Worse yet, is that someone here had even suggested it a long time ago. Can’t believe I wasted all that time and bandwidth trying to upload my .sql file in a million different incarnations.

soo, for those of you that this may also work for..

in your wordpress admin: click on options. then permalinks.
choose a permalink structure. update and voila!
magic working pages again

This didn’t work for me.. what exactly are you putting into the permalink structure?

I used this one:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

Good luck! I am sure that you are as frustrated as I was. ??

I still don’t think this applies to my problem. The problem I seem to be having is that the URL that wordpress is creating just simply doesn’t have a “index.php” in it. If you look up what permalinks are for on the support section of this site, they’re simply for customizing direct URLs. If I add the “index.php” into the URL in the right place it works. The odd thing is that I have wordpress set up on another server and it doesn’t have the “index.php” either, but the whole site works flawlessly.

Well, that was what was happening with me too. Clicking on the title of any particular post brought up the url minus “index.php” which of course meant that the url was dis-functional. I don’t know why setting the permalinks worked for me, but it did. I’m so sorry it didn’t for you. I wish I knew what else to suggest.

I had the same problem and went in loops, re-installing everything. This was the solution someone finaly gave me. Try putting

/index.php?p=%post_id%

for you permalink structure. This worked for me for the most part but I’m still have problems with my calendar which I still is broken. I wish I understood what was going on better.

I have been suffering this as well. I started messign with it myself before finding this thread and have made a worse mess now.
my site is https://www.chrisking.org. The default page there is jsut an html page with a linked image to https://www.chrisking.org/index.php which is the WP blog. All the links to comments and archives and articles had been returning you to the HTML page.

I went into the options and added /index.php to the paths there, which made the blog load, but now loads minues much of the formatting.

The real problem is that I can no longer navigate through the administrative pages. If i put in https://www.chrisking.org/wp-admin/options-general.php to go back to the options page, i get this URL instead: https://www.chrisking.org/index.php/wp-login.php?redirect_to=%2Fwp-admin%2Foptions-general.php

As such I cannot undo the change I made. Does anyone know what file those options reside in so I can manually edite them out and then return to trying to fix the original problem again?

Thanks,
Chris
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You cannot have 2 index pages in a directory. Delete the index.html.

I’ve only succeeded in making things messier =/
I removed the index.hmtl, and continued to have issues. I kept getting the odd redirect above, and am unable to load the admin pages to try and alter the path I had changed. I’ve tried replacing all the files and even tried to put the old one back and re-upgrade which probably did more harm yet. The problem seems to be stored in teh database I guess, and I’m not sure how to locate it. I may just have to have the folks hosting the database blow it out and create a new empty one ??
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Problem #1. – Because of your site’s setting (the host’s fault!) it doesn’t recognize index.php as a valid index page. Talk to your host to fix it.

Ack! If that is the case, hopefully I can salvage the situation, or at least fix that and find out what damage I really have done ?? Thanks.

Ah, exact same problem as I am having. Running IIS 4 on an NT4 server, latest MySQL for windows and PHP version 4 something, not sure about that. Anyway I set the index for the wordpress folder to index.php only and restarted the server, still having the same problem. Going to try some other ideas here and see where it gets me.