Permalinks, 404s etc

One thing of note when resetting the permalinks on the admin interface the .htaccess file is amended or created?

It is supposed to do that.

Either way it is creating it in c:\ which is niether my project root or my apache DocumentRoot (the latter being MyWeb in the httpd.conf directory statement above)

WordPress shouldn’t be able to do anything at all outside of Apache’s DocumentRoot unless something is badly wrong with your server. Are you sure that your DocumentRoot is where you think it is? That is, can you access a simple .html file in that directory?

What did you use to edit your httpd.conf file? Perhaps you introduced some hidden control characters?

I have no experience with Apache on Windows but I do know that Windows uses backslashes (\) for directory delimiters, not forward slashes (/). Are you sure that that “<Directory “C:/Documents…” line is correct? Sincere question. Apache could be compensating/converting those slashes. I am not sure.

Thanks for getting back to me.

It is supposed to do that.

Yes just wasnt sure if wordPress amended as well as created the htaccess file.

WordPress shouldn’t be able to do anything at all outside of Apache’s DocumentRoot unless something is badly wrong with your server.

This is the whole point of my inclduding this note within the post – something is either wrong with wordpress or my environment is not appropriate for WordPress, however the question is what.

Of course there is a difference between something badly wrong with the server configuration in terms of WordPress’s requisite and that of a valid configuration of Apache for other purposes. I am running about 3 other regular apache/mysql/php applications on it without issue.

And have developed many AMP websites without issue. So the question remains what does WordPress require?

Windows convention is to use backslashes (\) for directory delimiters but in fact (try it in windows explorer) it can interpret forward slashes perfectly well. I believe it is a common practice when developing on a WAMP environment, an application that will be deployed in a LAMP production environment, to use the forward slash syntax as deployment issues are then mitigated.

Either way in case of some sort of wordpress quirk I tried it with both delimiters. Neither have any difference in effect.

DocumentRoot is most definitely where I stated it to be and there are no embedded hidden characters in httpd.conf. FYI using Notepad++.

And have developed many AMP websites without issue. So the question remains what does WordPress require?

It isn’t all that demanding really– WordPress Requirements.

Windows convention is to use backslashes (\) for directory delimiters but in fact (try it in windows explorer) it can interpret forward slashes perfectly well.

Explorer can. The shell can’t though and I wasn’t sure which mattered for WAMP. But since you tested things, that isn’t it.

What do you mean by ‘numeric’ permalinks?

What do you have at wp-admin->Settings->General for the two address/url fields a couple of text inputs down?

It isn’t all that demanding really– WordPress Requirements.

Yes well I meet all the basic requirements, and until trying to sort out permalinks everything was ok. The problem is what is required for wordpress permalinks!

Explorer can. The shell can’t though and I wasn’t sure which mattered for WAMP.

I am not sure that the shell is relevent. As I understand things Apache interacts with the kernel. Which as mentioned has no problem undertsanding “/”. I use it this way all the time, first one at random from another project

include "includes/mastandnav.inc.htm";

WAMP works fine with forwardslashes I think this is a red herring.

Settings – Permalinks – Common Settings – Numeric
As in the adminsitrative interface at wp-admin.

They are both localised – i.e https://localhost/adventurebod/20120706/adventurebod

WAMP works fine with forwardslashes I think this is a red herring.

To quote me, “But since you tested things, that isn’t it.”

I’ve not seen this behavior before. Sorry.

Requirements for permalinks should be mod_rewrite and AllowOverride Fileinfo.

You did indeed follow what I said and you reiterated it above. I merely wished to underline things for anyone else following this thread.

Thanks for your help.

So if anyone else can make any suggestions on this it would be appreciated.

To recap
on setting permalinks to the Numeric method in admin settings I am getting 404 Page not found messages on all links. In fact it applies to any setting other than the default method.

Platform is WAMP on localhost.
The auto creation of htaccess is not being done as per expectations i.e. it is being written to the system root directory i.e “c:\”
This is neither Apache documentRoot or the WordPress root.
Also the lines it is writing in the file are incoreect (seemingly like a bug)

OK Solved the Permalinks problem.

Its with Apache – httpd.conf

As I mentioned above no problems with other php installations and I failed to see the obvious – its a problem in the Directory Directive.

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks fails
Options FollowSymLinks Works

As regards the erroneous writing of htaccess this seems to be something to do with using a child theme. I dont know anything really about the way child themes are implemented however the only thing that I was morphing was css using simple html tags all functionality was directly inherited. Removing the child theme resolved this issue.

Anyway time to move on for me I think.

Glad you solved it.

Resolved

Hi
If I select any permalinks other than the default it corrupts my htaccess file & then I cant login to the site after that.

My server host said this:
The default .htaccess rule set for WordPress is:

—
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
—

The issue was that, the rewrite rules to redirect translationdoctor.co.uk to https://www.translationdoctor.co.uk in your main .htaccess file as shown below:

—
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.translationdoctor\.co\.uk [NC]
#RewriteRule (.*) https://www.translationdoctor\.co\.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
—

and the option to disable/enable various permalink options in WordPress admin panel is conflicting, because of which WordPress ends up erasing the default rules for its own .htaccess file (wp/.htaccess), making the blog inaccessible. As of now, I have disabled the www redirect by commenting out the above rules, and everything is working fine now.

To be able to use both the options, you will need to seek assistance from WordPress.
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Can you help?

@mariobarba
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