I’m losing sleep over this

It definately appears to be a rewrite problem…
If I’m not mistaken, the line
RewriteBase /
should read:
RewriteBase /webpress/
Try that and let us know what happens. ??

Okay, try number two:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /webpress/
RewriteRule ^archives/category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /webpress/wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/category/?(.*) /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /webpress/wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/?(.*) /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/?([0-9]{4})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/?([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /webpress/wp-feed.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/?([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/trackback/?$ /webpress/wp-trackback.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /webpress/wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /webpress/wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]
As an aside, anyone know the purpose of RewriteBase? The documentation says it’s to translate between physical and virtual paths, but I can’t see this coming into play with a WP weblog…

Well, that’s interesting. Didn’t get a 404 error with that one – but it seems like it tried to call the “index.php” that is at the top level of my site. In other words, the permalink went after:
moravianchurch.org/index.php
when it should be going after index.php that’s in the “webpress” directory:
moravianchurch.org/webpress/index.php
Stevarino, I can’t tell you much I appreciate you trying on this. Any more ideas?

Hm, it seems to be double encoding the ampersands….
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /webpress/
RewriteRule ^archives/category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /webpress/wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/category/?(.*) /webpress/index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /webpress/wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/?(.*) /webpress/index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/?([0-9]{4})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /webpress/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/?([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /webpress/wp-feed.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/?([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/trackback/?$ /webpress/wp-trackback.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /webpress/wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /webpress/wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]

Thanks again, Stevarino – but still to no avail. Is there anyway to get in and diagnose the thing?
By the way, what did you mean about double-encoding the ampersand?
Hal

Is there a way to turn permalinks off?

You seem to have permalinks working now, but to turn them off, just undo what you did to create them – delete the structure, update and then delete the appropriate permalink section in htaccess.

Holy cow. It just started to work.
These things, I just don’t understand.
Stevarino – I owe you some cookies. Thanks a bunch!

Have you guys tried https://paste.uni.cc/? It’s a great way to post some code, and to get a nice short reference number to post.
It’s preferred to do this over long threads of code here in the forums.
??
Craig.

I’m having the exact same errors with this thing. I’ve followed the steps, tried the code you guys went through above, but no luck. I get 404 whenever I even try to go to the message from within the admin interface.
One of the codes did the same thing and bounced me back to my index page at my root, but that’s the most adventurous anything has worked on this “archive” part.
Here’s the .htaccess I’m using – and assuming it’s supposed to be at the root of the /wordpress/ folder?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^archives/category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wordpress/wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/category/?(.*) /wordpress/index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wordpress/wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/?(.*) /wordpress/index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?([0-9]+)?/?$ /wordpress/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)?/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wordpress/wp-feed.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)?/trackback/?$ /wordpress/wp-trackback.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wordpress/wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wordpress/wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]


Nick, wish I could “pay it forward” and help you – but I can’t. I put in the code that Stevarino gave me, and at first it didn’t work. Checked back 15 minutes later, and it did work. It’s got a life of its own.
I can say that, yes, it does need to be in the “wordpress” directory. Good luck.

@nickm – can we have a url ?

Unfortunately, it’s behind a members area, so the link wouldn’t work unless you signed up anyway. Other thoughts?