Flash header problems when permalinks are turned on (works only on homepage)

  • Resolved owain182

    (@owain182)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m trying to convert someone’s site to wordpress, so have set up wordpress install on my own server while I test it all out.
    I’m having problems with the flash header on the site.
    I’ve tried doing it manually as it was before, and also I have tried it with the Kimili flash embedder.
    Once everythings in place the header works fine on the homepage, but nothing loads on the other pages when permalinks are turned on.
    If I turn permalinks off, and have the default link structure the header works again.
    It’s obviously some sort of path issue, but I have tried numerous different ways of setting it up which all end up with the same result.

    I’d rather not post the link up on here at the moment, but I would be more than grateful if someone wants the link to look at, or I can post any of the code/settings

    Any help would be much appreciated, I’m going mad here!

    Many thanks

    edit:

    I’ve tried saving the files (xml, swf, image folder) in various places too, and it only works on the homepage with permalinks on. I’ve tried the wordpress root folder, the actual site root, the theme folders, I’ve tried absolute links such as https://www.mywebsite.com/folder/folder/file.swf and just the ‘file.swf’ and it doesn’t seem to make any difference.

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  • IE always seems to cause problems…

    What version(s) of IE are you testing with?

    I have the same problem with using the kimli plugin with permalinks and I still can’t fix it. It reads the flash perfect on every page with the default permalinks but when I turn the permalinks on the flash only read on the home/base page of the site. Could you go through how you got it to work before your IE problem. Much appreciated.

    You’re running into this issue because of relative paths.
    Add a base h ref in your header file just before </head> tag.

    <base href="https://www.yoursite.com/" />
</head>

    This should fix your issue.

    Thanks,

    amplidyne, you are the “super star”
    You save my life, thanks : )

    Amplidyne You are the Man!!!
    spent 3hours trying to figure this out.
    use this code in your header

    <base href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl');?>" />

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