Permalink Problem

  • I am having trouble setting up permalinks.
    I have seen threads on this forum where people have had 404s when trying to open up a permalink page but my problem is a little different.
    When I click the permalink, I get a page correctly set out, displaying the date and title, etc of the post just fine, and the comment box underneath, but, rather crucially, the content of the actual post doesn’t show up in between!!
    I know this is probably something really basic but I’ve been tearing my hair out. I’ve tried so many different steps to rectify the problem that I can’t even remember them all.
    Anyone have any idea as to where I’m going wrong?
    I’m using the structure
    /index.php/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
    although I’ve tried others, adjusting the .htaccess file accordingly, and the same thing happens each time.

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  • Thread Starter Anonymous

    (I’ve just started a new term at university so I’ve been busy and haven’t been in here for a while)
    I tried options symlinks and that doesn’t work either.
    Any mods/developers have any idea what’s going on?

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Ok, one last try.
    Here is my index.php template. I wonder if this will help anyone suss out what the problem is?
    <?php
    /* Don't remove these lines. */
    $blog = 1;
    require('../wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
    // Uncomment the next line if you want to track blog updates from weblogs.com
    // include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/links-update-xml.php');?>
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <title> vaguely [dot] org /blog | the name's blonde </title>
    <META http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php echo $wp_version; ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->
    <META content=TRUE name=MSSmartTagsPreventParsing>
    <META http-equiv=pragma content=no-cache>
    <META http-equiv=expires content=-1>
    <META content="noindex, nofollow" name=robots>
    <META
    content="vaguely.org is the personal domain of a student."
    name=description><LINK title="User Defined Style" media=screen
    href="https://www.vaguely.org/styles/weblog.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet><LINK
    title="Atom 0.3" href="https://www.vaguely.org/blog/wp-atom.php"
    type=application/atom+xml rel=alternate><LINK
    href="https://www.vaguely.org/blog/xmlrpc.php" rel=pingback>
    <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.vaguely.org/styles/weblog.css" type="text/css">
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RDF" href="<?php bloginfo('rdf_url'); ?>" />
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
    <link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
    </HEAD>
    <BODY>
    <P class=upgrade><font color="#CCCCCC">Not to be rude n'all, but it would appear
    that you posess an extremely skanky, antiquated web browser. If you don't want
    your web browsing experience to resemble viewing a Monet through a fishbowl
    of piss please upgrade to
    a newer browser. Ta very muchy. xxx </font></P>
    <DIV id=top>
    <div align="center"> <img src="https://www.vaguely.org/blog/graphics/blogheader.jpg" width="800" height="100" border="1"></div>
    </DIV>
    <DIV id=content>
    <?php if($posts):foreach($posts as $post):start_wp(); ?>
    <br><?php the_date('l jS F Y','<h1>','</h1>',display); ?>
    <div class="post"><h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> " rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
    <h3> posted at <?php the_time('g:i:a',display); ?> under: <?php the_category('separator');?></h3>
    <div>
    <?php the_content('text',no_teaser,'file'); ?>
    </div>
    <?php edit_post_link(); ?> | " rel="bookmark" title="Get Permanent Link">Get Permalink</h3>
    <div class="feedback">
    <?php comments_popup_link(__('Liebst du mich, oder nicht? (0) Comments so far. Add yours?'), __('Liebst du mich, oder nicht? (1) Comment so far. Add yours?'), __('Liebst du mich, oder nicht? (%) Comments so far. Add yours')); ?>
    </div>
    </div>
    <!--
    <?php trackback_rdf(); ?>
    -->
    <?php include(ABSPATH . 'wp-comments.php'); ?>
    <?php endforeach; else: ?>
    <?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
    </div>
    </div>
    <DIV id=bottom>
    <DIV class=copyright><A href="https://www.whatiscopyright.org/">?ˉ????</A> 2002-2004
    <A href="https://www.vaguely.org">vaguely.org</A><BR>
    Steal the HTML, leave the words alone.<br><br>" title="Syndicate this site using RSS">RSS 2.0

    " title="The latest comments to all posts in RSS">Comments RSS 2.0</DIV>
    </DIV>
    <DIV id=left style="left: 20px; top: 143px; width: 132px;">
    <DIV class=menutitle>EXTERNAL LINKS</DIV>
    <br>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Friends</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

      <?php wp_get_links(1)?>

    </div>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Social/Political</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

    </DIV>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Humour</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

    </DIV>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Resources</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

      <?php wp_get_links(5)?>
      <DIV class=rightpadtop>(...<A
      href="https://www.blah....">more</A>?)</DIV>

    </DIV>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Cold, Wet & Pretty</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

    </DIV>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Geeeeek!!</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

    </DIV>
    <DIV class=menutitle>News Yourself</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

    </DIV>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Buy Things</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

    </DIV>
    </div>
    </div>
    </div>
    <DIV id=right style="width: 138px;">
    <DIV class=menutitle>CONTENT</DIV>
    <br>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Personal Details</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

      <?php wp_get_links(9)?>

    </DIV>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Background</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

      <?php wp_get_links(10)?>

    </div>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Images</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

      <?php wp_get_links(11)?>

    </DIV>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Fiction</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

      <?php wp_get_links(15)?>

    </DIV>
    <DIV class=menutitle>About Site</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

      <?php wp_get_links(12)?>

    </DIV>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Archived Posts (Old)</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

      <select onChange="location=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value; " style="font-family:'Verdana';color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#000000;font-size:8pt;" name="select">
      <option selected>2003</option>
      <option value="https://www.blah">december
      2003</option>
      etc etc.....
      </select>

    <li class=menu>Bits From The Archive
    </div>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Archived Posts (Recent)</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

      <center><?php get_archives('monthly'); ?> </center>

    </DIV>
    <DIV class=menutitle>Interact</DIV>
    <DIV class=menublock>

      <?php wp_get_links(13)?>

    </DIV>
    </DIV>
    </DIV>
    </BODY></HTML>

    You should probably upload that as a phps file and link to it. Anyways, I don’t see anything wrong but I am not really a php expert

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Yes, I ought to have uploaded that as a phps file really!!! Ooops!
    I’ve noticed that permalinks do work when you click on the category…..ie, if you click on ‘general’, it gives you all the posts under the ‘general’ category (in their entirety).
    The problem is that it just doesn’t give you the posts individually, when you click on the post title. All you get is a blank post….
    eg: https://vaguely.org/blog/archives/category/general/
    works,
    and
    https://vaguely.org/blog/archives/2004/09/28/test/
    doesn’t.
    Really odd.

    OK, color me confused….. I just tried both of those links wenchy, and the worked! The Test post came up all by itself, just like I would expect.
    ?????
    TG

    same here wenchy, both worked for me

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Really?? With all the text showing in the right places???
    Weird. It still doesn’t work for me!

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    I asked some other people to take a look at the site and it didn’t work for them either – they saw no text in the body of the post when they called up the permalink.
    I was just playing around with the permalink structure. I tried to use:
    /index.php/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/
    which supposedly ignores mod_rewrite rules.
    Now I get the permalink displaying fine, with all the text where it should be:
    eg:
    https://vaguely.org/blog/index.php/archives/2004/10/24/
    but I don’t get the comment box or the comments when I click comment!
    Argh!

    Hrm that’s kind of strange. Your using index.php/archives/…. but your comments rss and entries in rss show up like proper permalinks. Are you sure you don’t just want to switch to complete permalinks

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    I’ve now switched to proper permalinks, and that gives me a 404.
    ??
    *Bangs head against wall*

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    *talking to myself* …. Aaaah….CHMOD 666. Might that make a difference, I wonder?? ??

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    ….or perhaps it’s because there is an empty .htaccess file here
    https://www.vaguely.org/.htaccess
    which I cannot delete.
    (I delete it and it just reappears).

    Seen from here everything works fine, including the comment box, comments – when I click on the permalink (a.k.a. post title). Clicking on catgeory name in the menu works, too.
    So what’s the problem?

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    The problem is that I (and several other people, apparently) can’t see the post content when they call up permalinks.
    ie, when I, and they, click:
    https://vaguely.org/blog/archives/2004/10/24/ahem/
    or any of the other ones
    the page comes up, with the post date, title, comments, etc, but missing the actual content of the post.
    ie, in this case, the bit which says:
    “Needless to say, this isna€?t actually complete yet. I am just trying to resolve a few bugs with permalinks. I think therea€?s a bug, but people on the WordPress support forum tell me that everything is working fine. Ia€?m confused.
    But then, Ia€?m fairly often confused about a multitude of things, so I may as well start as I mean to go on, eh?”
    doesn’t appear in the permalinked page. It just looks as though there’s a blank post there.
    Hope that makes sense!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You mentioned that you may have an empty .htaccess file, that is possible. Now, you said that you copied the code which the permalink options gave you into your .htaccess file. Let’s try posting that code again, or at least see what’s in the .htaccess file, by logging in and then going to the “Templates” menu. In the lower half of that page, you should see “.htaccess (for rewrite rules)” under the “Common files: (click to edit)” section, click on it. Now, you will be able to view and edit your .htaccess file. If the code isn’t there, put it there. If there is code there, let us know what it is.

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